Christopher M Church

Paradise Destroyed

Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Christopher M. Church is an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780803290990
• ISBN-10: 0803290993
• Artikelnr.: 48377955

Autorenporträt

Christopher M. Church is an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Colonialism, Catastrophe, and National Integration
1. French Race, Tropical Space: The French Caribbean during the Third
Republic
2. The Language of Citizenship: Compatriotism and the Great Antillean Fires
of 1890
3. The Calculus of Disaster: Sugar and the Hurricane of 18 August 1891
4. The Political Summation: Incendiarism, Civil Unrest, and Legislative
Catastrophe at the Turn of the Century
5. Marianne Decapitated: The 1902 Eruption of Mount Pelée
Epilogue: National Identity and Integration after the First World War
Notes
Bibliography
Index