LEADER 04461nam 2200673 450 001 9910826512403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4962-0449-2 010 $a1-4962-0451-4 035 $a(CKB)4340000000209804 035 $a(OCoLC)1007134560 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse59868 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5109874 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5109874 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11458105 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1043721 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000209804 100 $a20171122h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aParadise destroyed $ecatastrophe and citizenship in the French Caribbean /$fChristopher M. Church 210 1$aLincoln, [Nebraska] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aFrance Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization 311 $a1-4962-1392-0 311 $a0-8032-9099-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: colonialism, catastrophe, and national integration -- French race, tropical space: the French Caribbean during the Third Republic -- The language of citizenship: compatriotism and the great Antillean fires of 1890 -- The calculus of disaster: sugar and the hurricane of 18 August 1890 -- The political summation: incendiarism, civil unrest, and legislative catastrophe at the turn of the century -- Marianne decapitated: the 1902 eruption of Mount Pele?e -- Epilogue: national identity and integration after the First World War. 330 $aOver a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements--earth, wind, fire, and water--as well as a collapsing sugar industry, civil unrest, and political intrigue. These disasters thrust a long history of societal and economic inequities into the public sphere as officials and citizens weighed the importance of social welfare, exploitative economic practices, citizenship rights, racism, and governmental responsibility. Paradise Destroyed explores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest. French nationalists projected a fantasy of assimilation onto the Caribbean, where the predominately nonwhite population received full French citizenship and governmental representation. When disaster struck in the faraway French West Indies--whether the whirlwinds of a hurricane or a vast workers' strike--France faced a tempest at home as politicians, journalists, and economists, along with the general population, debated the role of the French state not only in the Antilles but in their own lives as well. Environmental disasters brought to the fore existing racial and social tensions and held to the fire France's ideological convictions of assimilation and citizenship. Christopher M. Church shows how France's 'old colonies' laid claim to a definition of tropical French-ness amid the sociopolitical and cultural struggles of a fin de sie?cle France riddled with social unrest and political divisions"--Publisher's website, January 16, 2018.$uhttp://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9780803290990/ 606 $aDisasters$zWest Indies, French 606 $aDisasters$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00894782 606 $aPolitics and government$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01919741 606 $aSocial conditions$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01919811 606 $aPolitische Beteiligung$2gnd 606 $aNaturkatastrophe$2gnd 606 $aSozialer Wandel$2gnd 607 $aWest Indies, French$xPolitics and government 607 $aWest Indies, French$xHistory 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aDisasters 615 7$aDisasters. 615 7$aPolitics and government. 615 7$aSocial conditions. 615 7$aPolitische Beteiligung 615 7$aNaturkatastrophe 615 7$aSozialer Wandel 676 $a972.976 700 $aChurch$b Christopher M.$01614371 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826512403321 996 $aParadise destroyed$93944165 997 $aUNINA