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French Travelers and Colonization (1850-1914)
Discussion published by Eric Martin on Wednesday, April 23, 2014
FROM THE EDITOR: The following the fourth of four requests for bibliographic feedback from
graduate students in Northeastern University’s World History program focused on various aspects of
imperial/colonial histories. The original posting came with all four bibliographies together, with an
additional request for sources that might connect all four lists together. I have separated them out
into four distinct postings with the hopes that this will increase both focus and discussion.
French Travelers and Colonization (1850-1914), Olivier Schouteden
I work on French travelers going to East and Southeast Asia during the phase of High Imperialism.
The French colonization of Indochina, the areas of influence and concessions French carved up in
China constitute therefore a crucial part of my project, but I do not want to limit my research to
these. First, I think my project would strongly benefit from a better understanding of European
colonization in general, and in the Far East and Southeast Asia in particular. Second, I wish to
expand my knowledge on how colonizing enterprises were designed and perceived from within, as
travelers are defined by their mobility--and therefore their potential in connecting different parts of
various western empires--but are also both recipients and diffusers of colonial representations of the
world. Last but not least, I would like to know more about how colonization was experienced by the
colonized in order to balance as well as better understand the imperialist perspective the French
travelers embodied. Any suggestion on how my reading list could be expanded on the world history
terrain, since I want to allow much flexibility on who colonized and who was colonized, would fit my
project perfectly and be extremely useful. The following tentative list reflects my rather ambitious
project:
1) Peter Zinoman, The Colonial Bastille, A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940
2) Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery, Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954
3) David G. Marr., Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885-1925
4) Truong Buu Lam, Colonialism Experienced: Vietnamese Writings on Colonialism, 1900-1931
5) Kathryn Robson and Jennifer Yee, France and Indochina: Cultural Representations
6) Nicholas Tarling, Imperialism in Southeast Asia, A Fleeting Passing Phase
7) James C. Scott & Benedict Kerkvliet, eds., Everyday Form of Peasant Resistance in Southeast Asia
8) Marc Frey, Ronald W. Pruessen, and Tan Tai Young, eds., The Transformation of Southeast Asia:
International Perspectives on Decolonization
9) Robert R. Reed, Colonial Manila
10) Richard Price, Making Empire: Colonial Encounter and the Creation of Imperial Rule in
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11) Raymond Schwab, The Oriental Renaissance: Europe's Rediscovery of India and the East, 16801880
12) Ann Laura Stoler and Nicola Cooper, eds, Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois
World
13) Ann Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
14) Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of
Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
15) Daniel Headrick, The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Expansion in the
Nineteenth Century
16) Pascal Blanchard et al. (eds.) Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Colonial Empires
17) 3 articles: Anne Marcovich, “French Colonial Medicine and Colonial Rule: Algeria and
Indochina;” Eric Jennings, “Acclimatization, Climatology and the Possibility of Empire;” Patrick
Wolfe, "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native."
18) Heather J. Sharkey, Living With Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan
19) Julia Ann Clancy-Smith, Frances Gouda, Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender and Family
Life in French and Dutch Colonialism
20) Brian J. Peterson, Islamization From Below: The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French
Sudan, 1880 – 1960.
21) Alice L. Conklin. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa
1895-1930.
22) Claiborne Skinner, The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes
23) David Prochaska, Making Algeria French, Colonisation in Bône, 1870-1920
24) Gail Paradise Kelly, David H. Kelly, French Colonial Education: Essays on Vietnam and West
Africa
25) Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur. Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire
in France.
26) Dana Hale, Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized People 1886-1940.
27) Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, eds., Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A
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28) Frederick Cooper, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History
29) Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized
30) Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism
31) Jurgen Osterhammel, Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview
32) Lorenzo Veracini, Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview
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