Hostages of Empire combines a social history of colonial
prisoner-of-war experiences with a broader analysis of their role
in Vichy's political tensions with the country's German occupiers.
The ...colonial prisoners of war came from across the French Empire,
they fought in the Battle for France in 1940, and they were
captured by the German Army. Unlike their French counterparts, who
were taken to Germany, the colonial POWs were interned in camps
called Frontstalags throughout occupied France. This
decision to keep colonial POWs in France defined not only their
experience of captivity but also how the French and German
authorities reacted to them. Hostages of Empire examines
how the entanglement of French national pride after the 1940 defeat
and the need for increased imperial control shaped the experiences
of 85,000 soldiers in German captivity. Sarah Ann Frank analyzes
the nature of Vichy's imperial commitments and collaboration with
its German occupiers and argues that the Vichy regime actively
improved conditions of captivity for colonial prisoners in an
attempt to secure their present and future loyalty. This French
"magnanimity" toward the colonial prisoners was part of a broader
framework of racial difference and hierarchy. As such, the
relatively dignified treatment of colonial prisoners must be viewed
as a paradox in light of Vichy and Free French racism in the
colonies and the Vichy regime's complicity in the Holocaust.
Hostages of Empire seeks to reconcile two previously
rather distinct histories: that of metropolitan France and that of
the French colonies during World War II.
Staging Civilization Markovits, Rahul; Todd, Jane Marie; Bell, David A
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The book ultimately offers a revisionist account of the traditional Europe française thesis, engaging topics such as transnational labor history, early-modern court culture and republicanism, soft ...power, and cultural imperialism.
The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière
hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The
hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation,
pointing ...not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the
unstable position of her spectator. Hysteria in
Performance sets out to uncover what kind of performance the
hysterical attack is, as well as the nature of hysteria in and as
performance as it occurred at Salpêtrière. The Salpêtrière
documents undeniably show the gravity of the institutional violence
committed against its female patients. Using the lenses of
performance studies and performance theory, Jenn Cole expresses the
overt and subtle damages done to hysterical women in Jean-Martin
Charcot's hospital, drawing attention to the hysteric's resistance
to these experiences: it is often simply by being herself that the
hysteric points to the inherent weaknesses in these systemic modes
of violence. In Hysteria in Performance , the hysteric
becomes a figure who represents possibilities for ethical
encounters within performance and everyday living. Revealing the
fraught and exciting nature of theatrical representation, and
continually drawing out the dilemmas and unexpected dynamics of
witnessing the suffering of others, this groundbreaking study
explores how Charcot's findings on hysteria produced a unique
mixture of theatre and science that still has unexpected things to
teach us.
Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but in
recent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting public
debate encompassing issues of unemployment, ...multiculturalism, Islam, and terrorism.
In this finely crafted historical and anthropological study, Paul A. Silverstein
examines a wide range of social and cultural forms -- from immigration policy,
colonial governance, and urban planning to corporate advertising, sports, literary
narratives, and songs -- for what they reveal about postcolonial Algerian
subjectivities. Investigating the connection between anti-immigrant racism and the
rise of Islamist and Berberist ideologies among the second generation
(Beurs), he argues that the appropriation of these cultural-political
projects by Algerians in France represents a critique of notions of European or
Mediterranean unity and elucidates the mechanisms by which the Algerian civil war
has been transferred onto French soil.
The collection includes new translations of
Tocqueville's works, including the first English translation of his
Second Memoir , the original Memoir , a letter
fragment considering pauperism in ...Normandy, and the ''Pauperism in
America'' index to the Penitentiary Report.
Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the most important thinkers of
the nineteenth century, and his thought continues to influence
contemporary political and social discourse. In Memoirs on
Pauperism and Other Writings , Christine Dunn Henderson brings
all of Tocqueville's writings on poverty together for the first
time: a new translation of his original Memoir and the
first English translation of his unfinished Second Memoir ,
as well as his letter considering pauperism in Normandy and the
''Pauperism in America'' appendix to his Penitentiary
Report . By uniting these texts in a single volume, Henderson
makes possible a deeper exploration of Tocqueville's thought as it
pertains to questions of inequality and public assistance. As
Henderson shows in her introduction to this collection, Tocqueville
provides no easy blueprint for fixing these problems, which remain
pressing today. Still, Tocqueville's writings speak eloquently
about these issues, and his own unsuccessful struggle to find
solutions remains both a spur to creative thinking today and a
caution against attempting to find simplistic remedies.
Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings allows us to
study his sustained thought on pauperism, poverty assistance,
governmental assistance programs, and social inequality in a new
and deeper way. The insights in these works are important not only
for what they tell us about Tocqueville but also for how they help
us to think about contemporary social challenges. This collection
will be essential not only to students and scholars of
Tocqueville's thought, nineteenth-century France, and political
economy, but also to all those interested in the issues of public
assistance, associative life, voluntary associations, and
charities.
After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of ...twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization.
What Ails France? is a provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership. Brigitte Granville applies an economist's vision to the monetary and fiscal ...pathologies flowing from this ideologically motivated technocratic rule, reflected in Europe's flawed monetary union, runaway indebtedness, and chronically high structural unemployment.
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