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

Publication Info.	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (xvii, 212 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	France overseas
	France overseas.
Bibliography	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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Subject	Penal colonies -- France -- History.
	Penal colonies.
	France.
	History.
	Penal colonies -- French Guiana -- History.
	French Guiana.
	Penal colonies -- New Caledonia -- History.
	New Caledonia.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Toth, Stephen A. Beyond Papillon. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006 0803244495 (DLC) 2005028930 (OCoLC)62089836
ISBN	0803256426 (electronic book)
	9780803256422 (electronic book)