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Beyond Papillon : the French overseas penal colonies, 1854-1952 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toth, Stephen A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]
Series:France overseas.
Subjects:
Penal colonies > France > History.
Penal colonies > French Guiana > History.
Penal colonies > New Caledonia > History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 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.