Description: Further DetailsTitle: Colonial SuspectsCondition: NewSubtitle: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West AfricaISBN-10: 0803296916EAN: 9780803296916ISBN: 9780803296916Publisher: University of Nebraska PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/01/2018Description: A Vietnamese cook, a German journalist, and a Senegalese student—what did they have in common? They were all suspicious persons kept under surveillance by French colonial authorities in West Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. Colonial Suspects looks at the web of surveillance set up by the French government during the twentieth century as France’s empire slipped into crisis. As French West Africa and the French Empire more generally underwent fundamental transformations during the interwar years, French colonial authorities pivoted from a stated policy of “assimilation” to that of “association.” Surveillance of both colonial subjects and visitors traveling through the colonies increased in scope. The effect of this change in policy was profound: a “culture of suspicion” became deeply ingrained in French West African society. Kathleen Keller notes that the surveillance techniques developed over time by the French included “shadowing, postal control, port police, informants, denunciations, home searches, and gossip.” This ad hoc approach to colonial surveillance mostly proved ineffectual, however, and French colonies became transitory spaces where a global cast of characters intermixed and French power remained precarious. Increasingly, French officials—in the colonies and at home—reacted in short-sighted ways as both perceived and real backlash occurred with respect to communism, pan-Africanism, anticolonialism, black radicalism, and pan-Islamism. Focusing primarily on the port city of Dakar (Senegal), Keller unravels the threads of intrigue, rumor, and misdirection that informed this chaotic period of French colonial history.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Kathleen KellerGenre: HistoryBook Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and DecolonizationRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
Price: 70.1 USD
Location: GU14 0GT
End Time: 2024-12-29T19:31:08.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Return policy details:
Book Title: Colonial Suspects
Title: Colonial Suspects
Subtitle: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French
ISBN-10: 0803296916
EAN: 9780803296916
ISBN: 9780803296916
Release Date: 04/01/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Colonial Suspects : Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Africa / West, Africa / General, Intelligence & Espionage, Europe / France, History & Theory, Law Enforcement
Publication Year: 2018
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Author: Kathleen Keller
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 7.5 in
Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Ser.
Format: Hardcover
