The French Colonial Mind, Volume 2: Violence, Military Encounters, and Colonialism

List of Contributors

357 Contributors robert aldrich is professor of European history at the University of Sydney. He has written extensively on the French in the South Pacific and is also the author of several works on French colonialism and its legacies, including Colonialism and Homosexuality (London: Routledge, 2002), Vestiges of Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004), and, as editor, The Age of Empires (London: Thames and Hudson, 2007). martin s. alexander is professor of international relations at Aberystwyth University in Wales, where, from 2007 to 2009, he was director of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies. His books include The Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933–39 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) and, as editor, Knowing Your Friends: Intelligence in Alliances and Coalitions (London: Cass, 1998), along with books coedited with John Keiger and Martin Evans, The Algerian War and the French Army: Experiences , Images, Testimonies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and coedited with John Keiger, France and the Algerian War, 1954–62: Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy (London: Cass, 2002). He is writing a reassessment of French civilian and military responses against the Blitzkrieg in 1940, on which he has published a preview article in War in History (14:2 [April 2007], 219–63). joshua cole is associate professor of history at the University of Michigan . He is the author of The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca ny: Cornell University Press, 2000), as well as other articles on French social and cultural history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The selection for this volume comes from his current book project, provisionally entitled “The Empire of Fear: Violence and the Politics of the Colonial Situation in Eastern Algeria, 1930–1940.” Contributors 358 william gallois is reader in history at Roehampton University, United Kingdom. He is the author of Zola: The History of Capitalism (Bern: Peter Lang, 1999); Time, Religion and History (London: Longman Pearson, 2007); and The Administration of Sickness: Medicine and Ethics in Colonial Algeria (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). His next book is provisionally entitled “A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony.” samuel kalman is associate professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He is the author of The Extreme Right in Interwar France: The Faisceau and the Croix de Feu (London: Ashgate, 2008), along with numerous articles that have appeared in a variety of periodicals, including French History, Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques, and French Historical Studies. He is currently working on a book entitled “Colonial Fascism: The Extreme Right in French Colonial Algeria, 1919–1939.” joe lunn is professor of African and modern European history at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. He is the author of Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War (Portsmouth nh: Heinemann, 1999), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is presently working on “African Voices from the Great War: An Anthology of Senegalese Soldiers’ Life Histories,” which will further explore the First World War’s impact on the lives of the Senegalese. neil macmaster, honorary reader at the University of East Anglia, is author of several books, including Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900–62 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997); Racism in Europe, 1870–2000 (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001); with Jim House, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); and Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the “Emancipation ” of Muslim Women, 1954–62 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009). He is currently writing a book on peasant society, anthropology , and French counterinsurgency in Algeria ca. 1945–60. kim munholland is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota– Twin Cities and is a specialist in French and French colonial history. His publications include several articles on French imperial expansion in Southeast Asia. He recently published a book on French-American relations in a colonial setting, Rock of Contention: Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940–1945 (New York: Berghahn, 2006). bertrand taithe is professor of cultural history at the University of Manchester and a director of the Manchester Humanitarian and Conflict Contributors 359 Response Institute. He has published on war and medicine and the history of humanitarian aid. His most recent book, The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa, is with Oxford...