The French Colonial Mind, Volume 1: Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters

Contents

Contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Mapping the French Colonial Mind xi martin thomas PART 1 Colonial Encounters and Imaginings of Empire 1 Reflections on the French Colonial Mind 3 patricia m. e. lorcin 2 Intellectuals for Empire? The Imperial Training of Félicien Challaye, 1899–1914 26 emmanuelle sibeud 3 Colonial Minds and African Witchcraft: Interpretations of Murder as Seen in Cases from French West Africa in the Interwar Era 49 ruth ginio 4 The Colonial Cosmology of Fernand Braudel 72 john strachan 5 Mental Maps of Modernity in Colonial Indochina during World War II: Mobilizing Sport to Combat Threats to French Rule 96 anne raffin PART 2 Language, Culture, and Communities of the Colonial Mind 6 Anticlericalism, French Language Policy, and the Conflicted Colonial Mind in Cameroon, 1923–1939 121 kenneth j. orosz 7 Information and Intelligence Collection among Imperial Subjects Abroad: The Case of Syrians and Lebanese in Latin America, 1915–1930 144 maría del mar logroño narbona 8 Religious Rivalry and Cultural Policymaking in Lebanon under the French Mandate 168 jennifer m. dueck 9 France’s Arabic Educational Reforms in Algeria during the Colonial Era: Language Instruction in Colonial and Anticolonial Minds before and after Algerian Independence 194 james d. le sueur PART 3 Administrators and the Colonial Mind after World War II 10 Thinking Like an Empire: Governor Henri Laurentie and Postwar Plans for the Late Colonial French “Empire-State” 219 martin shipway 11 Recycling Empire: French Colonial Administrators at the Heart of European Development Policy 251 véronique dimier 12 Friend or Foe? Competing Visions of Empire in French West Africa in the Run-up to Independence 275 tony chafer 13 Thinking between Metropole and Colony: The French Republic, “Exceptional Promotion,” and the “Integration” of Algerians, 1955–1962 298 todd shepard 14 Rigged Elections? Democracy and Manipulation in the Late Colonial State in French West Africa and Togo, 1944–1958 324 alexander keese List of Contributors 347 Index 351 ...