French Colonial Mind, Volume 1 Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters
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Biografisk notat
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 Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Emanuelle Sibeud, Ruth Ginio, John Strachan, Anne Raffin, Kenneth Orosz, Maria Del Mar Logrono, Jennifer Dueck, James D. Le Sueur, Martin Shipway, Veronique Dimier, Tony Chafer, Todd D. Shepard, and Alexander Keese.French Colonial Mind, Volume 1 Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters
"Edited by Martin Thomas, it gathers contributions from well- and lesser-known scholars of French colonial history alike... The French Colonial Mind is a well-conceived and well-executed edited collection. It is undoubtedly a significant work, being of interest to both scholars of French colonial history and of those looking to improve their understanding of the ways in which imperial thinking shaped the modern world." - Marcia Goncalves, European Review of History, April 2013
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapping the French Colonial Mind
Part 1: Colonial Encounters and Imaginings of Empire
1. Reflections on the French Colonial Mind
Patricia M. E. Lorcin
2. Intellectuals for Empire? The Imperial Training of Félicien Challaye, 1899
Emmanuelle Sibeud
3. Colonial Minds and African Witchcraft: Interpretations of Murder as Seen in Cases from French West Africa in the Interwar Era
Ruth Ginio
4. The Colonial Cosmology of Fernand Braudel
John Strachan
5. Mental Maps of Modernity in Colonial Indochina during World War II: Mobilizing Sport to Combat Threats to French Rule
Anne Raffin
Part 2: Language, Culture, and Communities of the Colonial Mind
6. Anticlericalism, French Language Policy, and the Conflicted Colonial Mind in Cameroon, 1923
Kenneth J. Orosz
7. Information and Intelligence Collection among Imperial Subjects Abroad: The Case of Syrians and Lebanese in Latin America, 1915
María del Mar Logroño Narbona
8. Religious Rivalry and Cultural Policymaking in Lebanon under the French Mandate
Jennifer M. Dueck
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
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
11. Recycling Empire: French Colonial Administrators at the Heart of European Development Policy
Véronique Dimier
12. Friend or Foe? Competing Visions of Empire in French West Africa in the Run-up to Independence
Tony Chafer
13. Thinking between Metropole and Colony: The French Republic, "Exceptional Promotion," and the "Integration" of Algerians, 1955
Todd Shepard
14. Rigged Elections? Democracy and Manipulation in the Late Colonial State in French West Africa and Togo, 1944
Alexander Keese
List of Contributors
Index
"Edited by Martin Thomas, it gathers contributions from well- and lesser-known scholars of French colonial history alike... The French Colonial Mind is a well-conceived and well-executed edited collection. It is undoubtedly a significant work, being of interest to both scholars of French colonial history and of those looking to improve their understanding of the ways in which imperial thinking shaped the modern world." - Marcia Goncalves, European Review of History, April 2013
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapping the French Colonial Mind
Part 1: Colonial Encounters and Imaginings of Empire
1. Reflections on the French Colonial Mind
Patricia M. E. Lorcin
2. Intellectuals for Empire? The Imperial Training of Félicien Challaye, 1899
Emmanuelle Sibeud
3. Colonial Minds and African Witchcraft: Interpretations of Murder as Seen in Cases from French West Africa in the Interwar Era
Ruth Ginio
4. The Colonial Cosmology of Fernand Braudel
John Strachan
5. Mental Maps of Modernity in Colonial Indochina during World War II: Mobilizing Sport to Combat Threats to French Rule
Anne Raffin
Part 2: Language, Culture, and Communities of the Colonial Mind
6. Anticlericalism, French Language Policy, and the Conflicted Colonial Mind in Cameroon, 1923
Kenneth J. Orosz
7. Information and Intelligence Collection among Imperial Subjects Abroad: The Case of Syrians and Lebanese in Latin America, 1915
María del Mar Logroño Narbona
8. Religious Rivalry and Cultural Policymaking in Lebanon under the French Mandate
Jennifer M. Dueck
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
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
11. Recycling Empire: French Colonial Administrators at the Heart of European Development Policy
Véronique Dimier
12. Friend or Foe? Competing Visions of Empire in French West Africa in the Run-up to Independence
Tony Chafer
13. Thinking between Metropole and Colony: The French Republic, "Exceptional Promotion," and the "Integration" of Algerians, 1955
Todd Shepard
14. Rigged Elections? Democracy and Manipulation in the Late Colonial State in French West Africa and Togo, 1944
Alexander Keese
List of Contributors
Index