The French Colonial Mind, 2-Volume Set

Herausgeber: Thomas, Martin

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Produktbeschreibung

Considers French colonial experiences in Africa and Southeast Asia and identifies the processes that made Frenchmen and women into ardent imperialists Explores the many ways in which brutality and killing became central to the French experience and management of empire

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Martin Thomas is a professor of colonial history at Exeter University. He is the author of several books, including The French Empire Between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics, and Society and Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 864
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 1314g
• ISBN-13: 9780803238152
• ISBN-10: 0803238150
• Artikelnr.: 33620814

Autorenporträt

Martin Thomas is a professor of colonial history at Exeter University. He is the author of several books, including The French Empire Between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics, and Society and Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Mapping the French Colonial Mind (Martin Thomas, Exeter
University)
 
Part 1: Colonial Encounters and Imaginings of Empire
1. Reflections on the Colonial Mind (Patricia Lorcin, University of
Minnesota)
2. Intellectuals for Empire? The Imperial Training of Féicien Challaye
(1899-1914) (Emmanuelle Sibeud, University of Paris VIII)
3. Colonial Minds and African Witchcraft: Interpretations of Murder as Seen
in Cases from French West Africa in the Interwar Era (Ruth Ginio, Gen
Gurion University of the Negev)
4. The Colonial Cosmology of Fernand Braudel (John Strachan, Manchester
University)
5. Mental Maps of Modernity in Colonial Indochina during World War II:
Mobilizing Sport to Combat Threats to French Rule (Anne Raffin, National
University of Singapore)
 
Part 2: Language, Culture, and Communities of the Colonial Mind
6. Anti-Clericalism, French Language Policy, and the Conflicted Colonial
Mind in Cameroon 1923-1939 (Kenneth Orosz, University of Maine at
Farmington)
7. Information and Intelligence Collection among Imperial Subjects Abroad:
The Case of Syrians and Lebanese in Latin America, 1915-1930 (Maria Del Mar
Logrono, University of California-Santa Barbara)
8. Inter-Confessional Rivalry and Cultural Policy-Making in Lebanon under
the French Mandate (Jennifer Dueck, Cambridge University)
9. France's Arabic Educational Reforms in Algeria during the Colonial Era:
Language Instruction in Colonial and Anticolonial Minds before and after
Algerian Independence (James D. Le Sueur, University of Nebraska)
 
Part 3: Administrators and the Colonial Mind after World War II
10. Thinking Like an Empire: Governor Henri Laurentie and Postwar Plans for
the Late Colonial French 'Empire-State (Martin Shipway, Birkbeck College)
11. Recycling Empire: French Colonial Administrators at the Heart of
European Development Policy (Veronique Dimier, Universite Libre de
Bruxelles)
12. Friend or Foe? Competing Visions of Empire in French West Africa in the
Run-up to Independence (Tony Chafer, University of Portsmouth)
13. Thinking between Metropole and Colony: The
French Republic, 'Exceptional Promotion,' and the 'Integration' of
Algerians (1955-1962) (Todd Shepard, The Johns Hopkins University)
14. Rigged Elections? Democracy and Manipulation in the Late Colonial State
in French West Africa and Togo, 1944-1958 (Alexander Keese, Centro de
Estudos Africanos, University of Porto)