French Colonial Mind, Volume 2 Violence, Military Encounters, and Colonialism
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
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."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
Sometimes concealed or denied, at other times highly publicized and even celebrated, French violence was so widespread that it was in some ways constitutive of colonial identity. Yet such violence was also destructive: destabilizing for its practitioners and lethal or otherwise devastating for its victims. The manifestations of violence in the minds and actions of imperialists are investigated here in essays that move from the conquest of Algeria in the 1830s to the disintegration of France’s empire after World War II. The authors engage a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from the violence of first colonial encounters to conflicts of decolonization. Each considers not only the forms and extent of colonial violence but also its dire effects on perpetrators and victims. Together, their essays provide the clearest picture yet of the workings of violence in French imperialist thought.
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, 19541962
Mathilde von Bülow
Conclusion: The Colonial Past and the Postcolonial Present
Robert Aldrich
List of Contributors
Index