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Paradise Destroyed - Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean (Paperback)
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Paradise Destroyed - Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean (Paperback)
Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
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2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner Over 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 severely tested France's ideological
convictions of assimilation and citizenship. Christopher M. Church
shows how France's "old colonies" subscribed to a definition of
tropical French-ness amid the sociopolitical and cultural struggles
of a fin de siecle France riddled with social unrest and political
divisions.
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