Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-205) and index.
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.
Summary
Presents a social and cultural analysis of civil society and the will of those who actually lived and worked in the penal colonies.
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