Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization)

by Christopher M. Church

EPUB, 2017

Original publication date

2017

Publication

University of Nebraska Press (2017), Edition: Illustrated, 323 pages

Notes

CONTENTS
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Colonialism, Catastrophe, and National Integration
1. French Race, Tropical Space: The French Caribbean during the Third Republic
2. The Language of Citizenship: Compatriotism and the Great Antillean Fires of 1890
3. The Calculus of Disaster: Sugar and the Hurricane of 18 August 1891
4. The Political Summation: Incendiarism, Civil Unrest, and Legislative Catastrophe at the Turn of the Century
5. Marianne Decapitated: The 1902 Eruption of Mount Pelée
Epilogue: National Identity and Integration after the First World War
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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