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Exile to paradise : savagery and civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900
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- Creator
- Alice Bullard
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- 380 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780804738781, 0804738785
- OCLC
- ocm45848256
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-366) and index.
- Civilization: Teleology for Modern France -- Becoming savage? The first step toward civilization and the practices of intransigence in New Caledonia -- Cleansing Paris of Le Peuple -- The ideal subject for the Third Republic -- Variations on a French western -- Improper subjectivity: Recuperating the category of affect in French colonial policy -- Fatal nostalgia -- Hybridity or humanitarianism? -- The rigors of reconciliation: Amnesty, torture, and political life -- Conclusion- fin-de-siecle republicanism: Le Peuple as Holy Ghost