Beyond Papillon: the French overseas penal colonies, 1854-1952
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Main Author: Toth, Stephen A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press c2006
Series:France overseas
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-205) and index
Back to the future: France and penal colonization -- The desire to deport: the recidivist of fin de siècle France -- Life in the penal colony: the view from above and below -- The lords of discipline: the French penal colony service -- The battle over the bagnard: tropical medicine in the bagne -- The not-so-fatal shore: the criminological conception of the fin de siècle -- Bagne -- The bagne obscura: representational crisis and the twentieth century
Presents a social and cultural analysis of civil society and the will of those who actually lived and worked in the penal colonies
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 212 p.)
ISBN:0803256426
9780803256422

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