Beyond Papillon - The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952

Informationen zum Autor Stephen A. Toth is an assistant professor of history at Arizona State University's West campus. Klappentext Stephen A. Toth is an assistant professor of history at Arizona State University¿s West campus. Zusammenfassung Through an analysis of criminal case files! administrative records! and prisoner biographies! this book reconstructs life in the penal colonies and examines how the social sciences! tropical medicine! and sensational journalism evaluated and exploited the inmates' experiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Back to the Future: France and Penal Colonization; 2. The Desire to Deport: The Recidivist of Fin de Siecle France; 3. Life in the Penal Colony: The View from Above and Below; 4. The Lords of Discipline: The French Penal Colony Service; 5. The Battle over the Bagnard: Tropical Medicine in the Bagne; 6. The Not-So-Fatal Shore: The Criminological Conception of the Fin de Siecle Bagne; 7. The Bagne Obscura: Representational Crisis and the Twentieth CenturyConclusion

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• Authors: Stephen Toth, Stephen A Toth, Stephen A. Toth
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780803217980
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-1798-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: France Overseas: Studies in Em; France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization; France Overseas: Studies in Em
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography