Violence was prominent in France's conquest of a colonial empire, and the use of force was integral to its control and regulation of colonial territories. What, if anything, made such violence distinctly colonial? And how did its practitioners justify or explain it? These are issues at the heart of The French Colonial Mind.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping Violence onto French Colonial Minds Part 1: Cultures of Violence in the Empire1. Dahra and the History of Violence in Early Colonial Algeria William Gallois2. Losing Their Mind and Their Nation? Mimicry, Scandal, and Colonial Violence in the Voulet-Chanoine Affair Bertrand Taithe3. Fear and Loathing in French Hanoi: Colonial White Images and Imaginings of "Native" Violence Michael G. Vann4. Anti-Semitism and the Colonial Situation in Interwar Algeria: The Anti-Jewish Riots in Constantine, August 1934 Joshua Cole5. Fascism and Algérianité: The Croix de Feu and the Indigenous Question in 1930s Algeria Samuel Kalman6. Colonial Minds and Colonial Violence: The Sétif Uprising and the Savage Economics of Colonialism Martin ThomasPart 2: Colonial Minds and Empire Soldiers7. Conquest and Cohabitation: French Men's Relations with West African Women in the 1890s and 1900s Owen White8. The French Colonial Mind and the Challenge of Islam: The Case of Ernest Psichari Kim Munholland9. French Race Theory, the Parisian Society of Anthropology, and the Debate over La Force Noire, 19091912 Joe Lunn10. Colonial Minds Confounded: French Colonial Troops in the Battle of France, 1940 Martin S. Alexander11. The "Silent Native": Attentisme, Being Compromised, and Banal Terror during the Algerian War of Independence, 19541962 Neil MacMaster12. Exposing the "Paradoxical Citizenship": French Authorities' Responses to the Algerian Presence in Federal Germany during the Algerian War, 19541962 Mathilde von BülowConclusion: The Colonial Past and the Postcolonial Present Robert AldrichList of Contributors Index