Edward Berenson Spring 2009 G461500 and G57.1212

Topics in French Cultural History: Colonialism and Immigration

This course examines the history of French imperialism and colonialism over the broad sweep of the modern period. It considers the affects of imperialism and colonialism on both the colonies themselves and mainland France. The waves of immigration to France from Asia and Africa form a major, but hardly exclusive, part of the empire’s affects on European France.

In addition to the weekly readings, assignments will include one analytical book review and a paper of about 20 pages.

Week I. Introduction to the Course

Week II. Theoretical Perspectives on Colonialism

Frederick Cooper, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History, California, 2005 Jennifer Pitts, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France, Princeton 2006

Week III. Caribbean Slavery and the Haitian Revolution

Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World, The Story of the Haitian Revolution, Harvard, 2005 Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, U. North Carolina, 2006

Week IV. Conquest and Colonialism in Algeria

Benjamin Stora, Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History, Cornell, 2004 Patricia Lorcin, Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria, I.B. Tauris, 1999

Week V. Algerians and Pieds Noirs

David Prochaska, Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bone, 1870- 1920, Cambridge, 2004

Week VI. The Civilizing Mission

Alice Conklin, A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, Princeton, 1997 Jonathan Katz, Murder in Marrakesh: Emile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure, Indiana University Press, 2006

Week VII. The Missionary Empire

J.P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914, Oxford, 2008

Week VIII. The Culture of Colonialism in France

Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur, Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 William Schneider, An Empire for the Masses: The French Popular Image of Africa, Greenwood, 1982 Edward Berenson, « Jean‐Baptiste Marchand and the French Imperial Myth, » Yale French Studies, May 2007, pp. 129‐142.

Week IX. Advertizing the Empire

Patricia Morton, Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2000)

Week X. Empire and Immigration

Mary Dewhurst Lewis, The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918­1940, Stanford, 2007

Week XI. Vichy and the Empire

Eric Jennings, Vichy in the Tropics: Petain's National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940­44, Stanford 2001

Week XII. Intellectuals and the Algerian War

Mouloud Feraoun, Journal 1955­1962: Reflections on the French­Algerian War, Bison Books, 2001 Henri Alleg, The Question, Bison Books 2006 Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

Week XIII. The Algerian War as Global Event

Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post­War Era, Oxford, 2003

Week XIV. Decolonization

Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France, Cornell, 2008