Mental maps of Empire and colonial encounters

Author(s)

• Thomas, Martin

Bibliographic Information

Mental maps of Empire and colonial encounters

（France overseas : studies in empire and decolonization / series editors, Philip Boucher ... [et al.], . The French colonial mind / edited and with an introduction by Martin Thomas ; v. 1）

University of Nebraska Press, c2011

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• : pbk

Note

ISBN for set "The French colonial mind": 9780803238152

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

What made France into an imperialist nation, ruler of a global empire with millions of dependent subjects overseas? Historians have sought answers to this question in the nation's political situation at home and abroad, its socioeconomic circumstances, and its international ambitions. But all these motivating factors depended on other, less tangible forces, namely, the prevailing attitudes of the day and their influence among those charged with acquiring or administering a colonial empire. The French Colonial Mind explores these mindsets to illuminate the nature of French imperialism. The first of two linked volumes, Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters brings together fifteen leading scholars of French colonial history to investigate the origins and outcomes of imperialist ideas among France's most influential "empire-makers." Considering French colonial experiences in Africa and Southeast Asia, the authors identify the processes that made Frenchmen and women into ardent imperialists. By focusing on attitudes, presumptions, and prejudices, these essays connect the derivation of ideas about empire, colonized peoples, and concepts of civilization with the forms and practices of French imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors to The French Colonial Mind place the formation and the derivation of colonialist thinking at the heart of this history of imperialism.

Table of Contents

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 Felicien Challaye, 18991914 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, 19231939 Kenneth J. Orosz 7. Information and Intelligence Collection among Imperial Subjects Abroad: The Case of Syrians and Lebanese in Latin America, 19151930 Maria del Mar Logrono 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 Veronique 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, 19551962 Todd Shepard 14. Rigged Elections? Democracy and Manipulation in the Late Colonial State in French West Africa and Togo, 19441958 Alexander Keese List of Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BB08724592
• ISBN:
  • 9780803220935
• LCCN: 2011024159
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lincoln
• Pages/Volumes: xlvii, 370 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 325.344
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History
  • LCSH : France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration -- History
  • LCSH : Africa, French-speaking West -- Colonization -- History
  • LCSH : Africa, French-speaking Equatorial -- Colonization -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA77977385