| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
France overseas
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France overseas.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Situating regeneration: medicine, science, and "modern" bodies -- Regenerating space: destruction and divided communities -- Regenerating space, part 2: not all ghettoes are the same -- Regenerating youth: the role of the alliance and the rise of Zionism -- Regenerating women: the assertion of reproductive control -- Conclusion: a brief reflection on identity. |
| Summary |
French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward "modernization," and imperialist interpretations of science and medicine. As French colonizers worked to realize ideas of a "modern" city and empire, they undertook a program to significantly alter the physical and social realities by which the people of Tunisia lived, often in ways that continue to influence life today. Medical Imperialism in French North Africademonstrates the ways in which diverse members of the Jewish community of Tunis received, rejected, or reworked myriad imperial projects devised to foster the social, corporeal, and moral "regeneration" of their community. Buttressed by the authority of science and medicine, regenerationist schemes such as urban renewal projects and public health reforms were deployed to destroy and recast the cultural, social, and political lives of Jewish colonial subjects. Richard C. Parks expands on earlier scholarship to examine how notions of race, class, modernity, and otherness shaped these efforts. Looking at such issues as the plasticity of identity, the collaboration and contention between French and Tunisian Jewish communities, Jewish women's negotiation of social power relationships in Tunis, and the razing of the city's Jewish quarter, Parks fills the gap in current literature by focusing on the broader transnational context of French actions in colonial Tunisia.-- Provided by Publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Tunisia -- Tunis -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Jews. |
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Tunisia -- Tunis. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Jews -- Health and hygiene -- Tunisia -- Tunis.
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Jews -- Health and hygiene. |
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Public health -- Tunisia -- History -- French occupation, 1881-1956.
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Tunis (Tunisia) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1881-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Parks, Richard C. Medical imperialism in French North Africa. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017 9780803268456 (DLC) 2017011936 |
| ISBN |
9781496202871 (epub) |
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1496202872 |
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9781496202888 (mobi) |
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1496202880 |
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9781496202895 (pdf) |
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1496202899 |
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0803268459 |
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9780803268456 |
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9780803268456 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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