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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Toth, Stephen A.
Imprint:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 212 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	France overseas France overseas.
Subject:	Penal colonies -- France -- History. Penal colonies -- French Guiana -- History. Penal colonies -- New Caledonia -- History. Penal colonies. France. French Guiana. New Caledonia. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11147846

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ISBN:	0803256426 9780803256422 0803244495 9780803244498 0803244495 9780803244498
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-205) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Presents a social and cultural analysis of civil society and the will of those who actually lived and worked in the penal colonies.
Other form:	Print version: Toth, Stephen A. Beyond Papillon. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006 0803244495
Standard no.:	9780803244498

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.