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Beyond Papillon : the French overseas penal colonies, 1854-1952 / Stephen A. Toth.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toth, Stephen A.
- Series:
- France overseas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Penal colonies--France--History.
- Penal colonies.
- Penal colonies--French Guiana--History.
- Penal colonies--New Caledonia--History.
- History.
- New Caledonia.
- French Guiana.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0803244495
- OCLC:
- 62089836
- Publisher Number:
- 9780803244498
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