Paradise destroyed : catastrophe and citizenship in the French Caribbean / Christopher M. Church
Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements—earth, wind, fire, and water—as well as a collapsing sugar industry, civil unrest, and political intrigue. These disasters thrust a long history of societal and economic inequities into the public sphere as officials and citizens weighed the importance of social welfare, exploitative economic practices, citizenship rights, racism, and governmental responsibility. Paradise Destroyed explores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest. French nationalists projected a fantasy of assimilation onto the Caribbean, where the predominately nonwhite population received full French citizenship and governmental representation. When disaster struck in the faraway French West Indies—whether the whirlwinds of a hurricane or a vast workers’ strike—France faced a tempest at home as politicians, journalists, and economists, along with the general population, debated the role of the French state not only in the Antilles but in their own lives as well. Environmental disasters brought to the fore existing racial and social tensions and held to the fire France’s ideological convictions of assimilation and citizenship. Christopher M. Church shows how France’s “old colonies” laid claim to a definition of tropical French-ness amid the sociopolitical and cultural struggles of a fin de siècle France riddled with social unrest and political divisions.
Call Number 174: CEDLA 80.3338.CH
Resisting paradise : tourism, diaspora, and sexuality in Caribbean culture / Angelique V. Nixon
Call Number 174: CEDLA 70.0760.NI
Of cannibals and kings : primal anthropology in the Americas / Neil L. Whitehead
Call Number 174: CEDLA 70.3250.WH
The economic history of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic wars / Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Call Number 174: CEDLA 70.3270.BU
Sugar, slavery, Christianity and the making of race / Mark Edelman Boren
Call Number 174: CEDLA 70.3287.BO
The cinema of Cuba : contemporary film and the legacy of revolution / edited by Guy Baron and Ann Marie Stock with Antonio Álvarez Pitaluga
Call Number 174: CEDLA 71.1254.BA
Cuban economists on the Cuban economy / edited by Al Campbell
Call Number 174: CEDLA 71.3900.CA
Borders of visibility : Haitian migrant women and the Dominican nation-state / Jennifer L. Shoaff
Call Number 174: CEDLA 73.0140.SH
Slaves in paradise : a priest stands up for exploited sugarcane workers / Jesús García
Call Number 174: CEDLA 73.4100.GA
Toussaint Louverture : a black Jacobin in the age of revolutions / Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg
Call Number 174: CEDLA 75.3212.FO
Apocalypse 1692 : empire, slavery, and the great Port Royal earthquake / Ben Hughes
Call Number 174: CEDLA 77.3289.HU
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