Beyond Papillon the French overseas penal colonies, 1854-1952 / Stephen A. Toth.

Author/creator Toth, Stephen A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press,
Descriptionxvii, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesFrance overseas
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [185]-205) and index.
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LCCN 2005028930
ISBN0803244495 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780803244498