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Beyond Papillon : the French overseas penal colonies, 1854-1952
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- Creator
- Stephen A. Toth
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780803244498, 0803256426, 0803244495, 9780803256422
- OCLC
- ocm74904258, ocm62089836
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-205) and index.
- 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