Description
Book SynopsisViolence 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.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
