Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapping the French Colonial Mind
Part 1: Colonial Encounters and Imaginings of Empire
1. Reflections on the French Colonial Mind
Patricia M. E. Lorcin
2. Intellectuals for Empire? The Imperial Training of Félicien Challaye, 1899<EN>1914
Emmanuelle Sibeud
3. Colonial Minds and African Witchcraft: Interpretations of Murder as Seen in Cases from French West Africa in the Interwar Era
Ruth Ginio
4. The Colonial Cosmology of Fernand Braudel
John Strachan
5. Mental Maps of Modernity in Colonial Indochina during World War II: Mobilizing Sport to Combat Threats to French Rule
Anne Raffin
Part 2: Language, Culture, and Communities of the Colonial Mind
6. Anticlericalism, French Language Policy, and the Conflicted Colonial Mind in Cameroon, 1923<EN>1939
Kenneth J. Orosz
7. Information and Intelligence Collection among Imperial Subjects Abroad: The Case of Syrians and Lebanese in Latin America, 1915<EN>1930
María del Mar Logroño Narbona
8. Religious Rivalry and Cultural Policymaking in Lebanon under the French Mandate
Jennifer M. Dueck
9. France's Arabic Educational Reforms in Algeria during the Colonial Era: Language Instruction in Colonial and Anticolonial Minds before and after Algerian Independence
James D. Le Sueur
Part 3: Administrators and the Colonial Mind after World War II
10. Thinking Like an Empire: Governor Henri Laurentie and Postwar Plans for the Late Colonial French "Empire-State"
Martin Shipway
11. Recycling Empire: French Colonial Administrators at the Heart of European Development Policy
Véronique Dimier
12. Friend or Foe? Competing Visions of Empire in French West Africa in the Run-up to Independence
Tony Chafer
13. Thinking between Metropole and Colony: The French Republic, "Exceptional Promotion," and the "Integration" of Algerians, 1955<EN>1962
Todd Shepard
14. Rigged Elections? Democracy and Manipulation in the Late Colonial State in French West Africa and Togo, 1944<EN>1958
Alexander Keese
List of Contributors
Index
