| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
France overseas
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France overseas.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Maps""; ""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. French Race, Tropical Space""; ""2. The Language of Citizenship""; ""3. The Calculus of Disaster""; ""4. The Political Summation""; ""5. Marianne Decapitated""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography"" |
| Summary |
Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements-earth, wind, fire, and water-as well as a collapsing sugar industry, civil unrest, and political intrigue. These disasters thrust a long history of societal and economic inequities into the public sphere as officials and citizens weighed the importance of social welfare, exploitative economic practices, citizenship rights, racism, and governmental responsibility. Paradise Destroyedexplores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest. French nationalists projected a fantasy of assimilation onto the Caribbean, where the predominately nonwhite population received full French citizenship and governmental representation. When disaster struck in the faraway French West Indies-whether the whirlwinds of a hurricane or a vast workers' strike-France faced a tempest at home as politicians, journalists, and economists, along with the general population, debated the role of the French state not only in the Antilles but in their own lives as well. Environmental disasters brought to the fore existing racial and social tensions and held to the fire France's ideological convictions of assimilation and citizenship. Christopher M. Church shows how France's "old colonies" laid claim to a definition of tropical French-ness amid the sociopolitical and cultural struggles of a fin de siècle France riddled with social unrest and political divisions.-- Provided by Publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
West Indies, French -- Politics and government.
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West Indies, French -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Church, Christopher M. Paradise destroyed. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017] 0803290993 9780803290990 (OCoLC)983384651 |
| ISBN |
9781496204493 (electronic book) |
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1496204492 (electronic book) |
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9780803290990 |
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0803290993 |
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