{"product_id":"colonial-suspects-suspicion-imperial-rule-and-colonial-society-in-interwar-french-west-africa-9780803296916","title":"Colonial Suspects  Suspicion Imperial Rule and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Vietnamese cook, a German journalist, and a Senegalese student. What did they have in common? They were all suspicious persons kept under surveillance by French colonial authorities in West Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. \u003cem\u003eColonial Suspects\u003c\/em\u003e looks at the web of surveillance set up by the French government during the twentieth century as France's empire slipped into crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eColonial Suspects\u003c\/i\u003e is] an important work and an in-depth study of colonial policing.\"—Fabienne Chamelot, \u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Keller's well-written book examines the history of colonial surveillance in interwar French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française, or AOF), with an emphasis on Senegal and Dakar, the capital of AOF. Based on a large number of archival sources from Senegal and France, her study is situated primarily within the historical literature about French imperialism, occasionally taking into account works in political, social, and literary theory. . . . Keller's study is an important and insightful addition to a growing field of works that bring together the history of colonialism and that of global surveillance.\"—Daniel Brückenhaus,\u003ci\u003e Journal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kathleen Keller offers a tightly framed account of the efforts of the French imperial state to maintain surveillance of individuals deemed suspicious in French West Africa between the world wars.\"—Gregory Mann, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eColonial Suspects\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution to our understanding of how colonial states operated and of how anticolonialism emerged at the interstices of empire. But it is also the beguiling set of characters, the colorful primary sources, and the vivid style with which Keller brings them all to life that make this book worth reading—not only for specialists of West Africa, but for students of colonial history and of police history more broadly.\"—Michael Goebel, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Keller provides some fascinating insights into how police information was categorized and organized and how networks of administrators shared information on suspicious travelers from different parts of the empire. . . . That \u003ci\u003eColonial Suspects\u003c\/i\u003e has raised many new questions is testament to its importance.\"—Richard Roberts, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of African Historical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eColonial Suspects\u003c\/i\u003e explores the obsessive French colonial preoccupation with constructing otherness, monitoring outsiders, and persecuting those at the poorest margins of white society. From high-profile criminal cases to intimate lives, the book offers a fine-grained perspective on the culture of suspicion pervading the policing of subversion—real and imagined—within France’s West African colonies after World War I.”—Martin Thomas, professor of history at the University of Exeter and author of \u003ci\u003eEmpires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eColonial Suspects\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground and has compelling tie-ins to current debates over surveillance that will resonate with students and academics in the field. One of the most exciting things about it is how it shows that interwar French West Africa was in some ways a global crossroads.”—Elizabeth A. Foster, associate professor of history at Tufts University and the author of \u003ci\u003eFaith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880–1940\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Translations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. “A Vigilant Surveillance”: Creating Suspicion in Interwar French West Africa\u003cbr\u003e 2. “Proceed with a Discreet Surveillance”: The Investigation and Surveillance of Suspects\u003cbr\u003e 3. Enemies, Charlatans, and Propagandists: Foreigners under Surveillance in AOF\u003cbr\u003e 4. “Powerless with Regard to Our Nationals”: Policing Frenchness and Redefining the Civilizing Mission in AOF\u003cbr\u003e 5. Creating Networks: African Suspects, Radical Politics, and Colonial Repression\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405302276439,"sku":"9780803296916","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803296916.jpg?v=1730489635","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colonial-suspects-suspicion-imperial-rule-and-colonial-society-in-interwar-french-west-africa-9780803296916","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}