Beyond Papillon
Subtitle: the French overseas penal colonies, 1854-1952
By: Stephen A. Toth.
Series: France overseas
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780803244498
Subjects: Penal colonies -- France -- History; Penal colonies -- French Guiana -- History; Penal colonies -- New Caledonia -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Back to the future: France and penal colonization; title: The desire to deport: the recidivist of fin de siècle France; title: Life in the penal colony: the view from above and below; title: The lords of discipline: the French penal colony service; title: The battle over the bagnard: tropical medicine in the bagne; title: The not-so-fatal shore: the criminological conception of the fin de siècle; title: Bagne; title: The bagne obscura: representational crisis and the twentieth century.