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

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Presents a social and cultural analysis of civil society and the will of those who actually lived and worked in the penal colonies.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Toth, Stephen A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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.
Colonies pénitentiaires > France > Histoire.
Colonies pénitentiaires > Guyane française > Histoire.
Colonies pénitentiaires > Nouvelle-Calédonie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Penal colonies
Strafkoloniën.
France
French Guiana
New Caledonia
Frankreich
Frans Guyana.
Nieuw-Caledonië.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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