Violence was prominent in France's conquest of a colonial empire, and the use of force was integral to its control and regulation of colonial territories. What, if anything, made such violence distinctly colonial? And how did its practitioners justify or explain it? These are issues at the heart of The French Colonial Mind.
Violence was prominent in France's conquest of a colonial empire, and the use of force was integral to its control and regulation of colonial territories. What, if anything, made such violence distinctly colonial? And how did its practitioners justify or explain it? These are issues at the heart of The French Colonial Mind.
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France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
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. Contributors include William Gallois, Bertrand Taithe, Michael Vann, Joshua Cole, Samuel Kalman, Kim Munholland, Owen White, Joe Lunn, Martin Alexander, Neil MacMaster, Mathilde von Bulow, and Robert Aldrich.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping Violence onto French Colonial Minds Part 1: Cultures of Violence in the Empire 1. Dahra and the History of Violence in Early Colonial Algeria William Gallois 2. Losing Their Mind and Their Nation? Mimicry, Scandal, and Colonial Violence in the Voulet-Chanoine Affair Bertrand Taithe 3. Fear and Loathing in French Hanoi: Colonial White Images and Imaginings of "Native" Violence Michael G. Vann 4. Anti-Semitism and the Colonial Situation in Interwar Algeria: The Anti-Jewish Riots in Constantine, August 1934 Joshua Cole 5. Fascism and Algérianité: The Croix de Feu and the Indigenous Question in 1930s Algeria Samuel Kalman 6. Colonial Minds and Colonial Violence: The Sétif Uprising and the Savage Economics of Colonialism Martin Thomas Part 2: Colonial Minds and Empire Soldiers 7. Conquest and Cohabitation: French Men's Relations with West African Women in the 1890s and 1900s Owen White 8. The French Colonial Mind and the Challenge of Islam: The Case of Ernest Psichari Kim Munholland 9. French Race Theory, the Parisian Society of Anthropology, and the Debate over La Force Noire, 19091912 Joe Lunn 10. Colonial Minds Confounded: French Colonial Troops in the Battle of France, 1940 Martin S. Alexander 11. The "Silent Native": Attentisme, Being Compromised, and Banal Terror during the Algerian War of Independence, 19541962 Neil MacMaster 12. Exposing the "Paradoxical Citizenship": French Authorities' Responses to the Algerian Presence in Federal Germany during the Algerian War, 1954 1962 Mathilde von Bülow Conclusion: The Colonial Past and the Postcolonial Present Robert Aldrich List of Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping Violence onto French Colonial Minds Part 1: Cultures of Violence in the Empire 1. Dahra and the History of Violence in Early Colonial Algeria William Gallois 2. Losing Their Mind and Their Nation? Mimicry, Scandal, and Colonial Violence in the Voulet-Chanoine Affair Bertrand Taithe 3. Fear and Loathing in French Hanoi: Colonial White Images and Imaginings of "Native" Violence Michael G. Vann 4. Anti-Semitism and the Colonial Situation in Interwar Algeria: The Anti-Jewish Riots in Constantine, August 1934 Joshua Cole 5. Fascism and Algérianité: The Croix de Feu and the Indigenous Question in 1930s Algeria Samuel Kalman 6. Colonial Minds and Colonial Violence: The Sétif Uprising and the Savage Economics of Colonialism Martin Thomas Part 2: Colonial Minds and Empire Soldiers 7. Conquest and Cohabitation: French Men's Relations with West African Women in the 1890s and 1900s Owen White 8. The French Colonial Mind and the Challenge of Islam: The Case of Ernest Psichari Kim Munholland 9. French Race Theory, the Parisian Society of Anthropology, and the Debate over La Force Noire, 19091912 Joe Lunn 10. Colonial Minds Confounded: French Colonial Troops in the Battle of France, 1940 Martin S. Alexander 11. The "Silent Native": Attentisme, Being Compromised, and Banal Terror during the Algerian War of Independence, 19541962 Neil MacMaster 12. Exposing the "Paradoxical Citizenship": French Authorities' Responses to the Algerian Presence in Federal Germany during the Algerian War, 1954 1962 Mathilde von Bülow Conclusion: The Colonial Past and the Postcolonial Present Robert Aldrich List of Contributors Index
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