Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952 (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization) - Softcover

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Toth, Stephen A.

 
9780803217980: Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952 (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803217986 ISBN 13: 9780803217980
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

For French criminologists and colonialists of the mid-nineteenth century, the penal colonies of Guiana and New Caledonia seemed to satisfy two needs, namely, to incarcerate a growing number of criminals and to supply manpower for these developing colonies. But were these two goals not contradictory? Was the primary purpose of the penal colonies to punish or to colonize? In the prisons, inmates found means of subversion, guards resisted militaristic discipline, and camp commanders fought physicians for authority. Back in the metropole, journalistic exposés catered to the public's fascination with the penal colonies' horror and exoticism. An understanding of modern France is not complete without an examination of this institution, which existed for more than a century and imprisoned more than one hundred thousand people. Stephen A. Toth invites readers to experience the prisons firsthand. Through a careful analysis of criminal case files, administrative records, and prisoner biographies, Toth reconstructs life in the penal colonies and examines how the social sciences, tropical medicine, and sensational journalism evaluated and exploited the inmates' experiences. In exploring the disjuncture between the real and the imagined, he moves beyond mythic characterizations of the penal colonies to reveal how power, discipline, and punishment were construed and enforced in these prison outposts.

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Stephen A. Toth is an assistant professor of history at Arizona State University's West campus.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803217986
ISBN 13 
9780803217980
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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