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Paperback Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952 Book

ISBN: 0803217986

ISBN13: 9780803217980

Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952

(Part of the France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series)

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For French criminologists and colonialists of the mid-nineteenth century, the penal colonies of Guiana and New Caledonia seemed to satisfy two needs, namely, to incarcerate a growing number of criminals and to supply manpower for these developing colonies. But were these two goals not contradictory? Was the primary purpose of the penal colonies to punish or to colonize? In the prisons, inmates found means of subversion, guards resisted militaristic...

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