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 .