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Imperial Heights

Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina

By: Eric T. Jennings

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Imperial Heights

Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina

By: Eric T. Jennings

“By using both macro and micro lenses, Eric T. Jennings has written a book which is a model of global history under the guise of a monographic study. He convincingly demonstrates that throughout fifty years, Dalat as a climatic resort built by the French colonizers in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, was upgraded to far more than a mere R&R place for white people. Jennings has kneaded together a huge and rich amount of primary and secondary sources that he masters perfectly due to his sound and balanced method of critical analysis. As we say in French: de la belle ouvrage.” —Pierre Brocheux, author of Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 “Written in a vivid and engaging style, Imperial Heights is an exceptional piece of scholarship. It is impeccably researched, drawing on private, institutional, and national archives in at least five countries. Making wonderful use of ‘thick description,’ Jennings brilliantly recreates the story of one small town to capture the varied and complex history of French colonialism and its afterlives in Southeast Asia.” —J.P. Daughton, author of An Empire Divided

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0520266595

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Curing the Colonizers

Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas

By: Eric T. Jennings

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Curing the Colonizers

Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas

By: Eric T. Jennings

“Beware! Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy.” So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France’s main spas. Throughout the French empire, spas featuring water cures, often combined with “climatic” cures, thrived during the nineteenth century and the twentieth. Water cures and high-altitude resorts were widely believed to serve vital therapeutic and even prophylactic functions against tropical disease and the tropics themselves. The Ministry of the Colonies published bulletins accrediting a host of spas thought to be effective against tropical ailments ranging from malaria to yellow fever; specialized guidebooks dispensed advice on the best spas for “colonial ills.” Administrators were granted regular furloughs to “take the waters” back home in France. In the colonies, spas assuaged homesickness by creating oases of France abroad. Colonizers frequented spas to maintain their strength, preserve their French identity, and cultivate their difference from the colonized. Combining the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine, Eric T. Jennings sheds new light on the workings of empire by examining the rationale and practice of French colonial hydrotherapy between 1830 and 1962. He traces colonial acclimatization theory and the development of a “science” of hydrotherapy appropriate to colonial spaces, and he chronicles and compares the histories of spas in several French colonies—Guadeloupe, Madagascar, Tunisia, and Réunion—and in France itself. Throughout Curing the Colonizers, Jennings illuminates the relationship between indigenous and French colonial therapeutic knowledge as well as the ultimate failure of the spas to make colonialism physically or morally safe for the French.

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Duke University Press

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0822388278

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Imperial Heights

Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina

By: Eric T. Jennings

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Imperial Heights

Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina

By: Eric T. Jennings

Intended as a reminder of Europe for soldiers and clerks of the empire, the city of Dalat, located in the hills of Southern Vietnam, was built by the French in an alpine locale that reminded them of home. This book uncovers the strange 100-year history of a colonial city that was conceived as a center of power and has now become a kitsch tourist destination famed for its colonial villas, flower beds, pristine lakes, and pastoral landscapes. Eric T. Jennings finds that from its very beginning, Dalat embodied the paradoxes of colonialism—it was a city of leisure built on the backs of thousands of coolies, a supposed paragon of hygiene that offered only questionable protection from disease, and a new venture into ethnic relations that ultimately backfired. Jennings’ fascinating history opens a new window onto virtually all aspects of French Indochina, from architecture and urban planning to violence, labor, métissage, health and medicine, gender and ethic relations, schooling, religion, comportments, anxieties, and more.

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0520948440

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Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar

By: Eric T. Jennings

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Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar

By: Eric T. Jennings

This book is a vivid history of Madagascar from the pre-colonial era to decolonization, examining a set of French colonial projects and perceptions that revolve around issues of power, vulnerability, health, conflict, control and identity. It focuses on three lines of inquiry: the relationship between domination and health fears, the island’s role during the two world wars, and the mystery of Malagasy origins. The Madagascar that emerges is plural and fractured. It is the site of colonial dystopias, grand schemes gone awry, and diverse indigenous reactions. Bringing together deep archival research and recent scholarship, Jennings sheds light on the colonial project in Madagascar, and more broadly, on the ideas which underpin colonialism.

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Springer

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1137559675

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Free French Africa in World War II

The African Resistance

By: Eric T. Jennings

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Free French Africa in World War II

The African Resistance

By: Eric T. Jennings

Only in recent years have historians rediscovered the critical role that French colonial troops played in the twentieth century's two world wars. What is perhaps still deeply under-appreciated is how much General de Gaulle's Free France drew its strength from 1940 to the middle of 1943 from fighting men, resources, and operations in French Equatorial Africa rather than London. Territorially, Free France spanned from the Libyan border with Chad down to the Congo River, and to the scattered tiny French territories of the South Pacific and India. Eric T. Jennings tells the story of an improbable French military and institutional rebirth through Central Africa and gives a unique, deep look at the key role Free French Africa played during World War II to help the Allied cause.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316445194

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An Honest Lie

Volume 2

By: Debrin Case,Bob Clark,Eric Trant

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An Honest Lie

Volume 2

By: Debrin Case,Bob Clark,Eric Trant

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Lulu.com

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0578069253

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Vichy in the Tropics

Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-44

By: Eric T. Jennings

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Vichy in the Tropics

Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-44

By: Eric T. Jennings

Winner of the 2001 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize of the French Colonial Historical Society This book examines the role of the Vichy regime in bringing about profound changes in the French colonial empire. It argues that Vichy contributed to postwar decolonization by introducing an ideology based on a new, harsher, brand of colonization.

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Stanford University Press

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0804750475

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Escape from Vichy

The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean

By: Eric T. Jennings

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Escape from Vichy

The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean

By: Eric T. Jennings

In the early years of World War II, thousands of political refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique in the French Caribbean, en route to what they hoped would be safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer from the colony, the exiles formed influential ties—with one another and with local black dissidents. Escape from Vichy recounts this flight from the refugees’ perspectives, using novels, unpublished diaries, archives, memoirs, artwork, and other materials to explore the unlikely encounters that fueled an anti-fascist artistic and intellectual movement. The refugees included Spanish Republicans, anti-Nazi Germans and Austrians, anti-fascist Italians, Jews from across Europe, and others fleeing violence and repression. They were met with hostility by the Vichy government and rejection by the nations where they hoped to settle. Martinique, however, provided a site propitious for creative ferment, where the revolutionary Victor Serge conversed with the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and the Surrealist André Breton met Negritude thinkers René Ménil and Aimé and Suzanne Césaire. As Eric T. Jennings shows, these interactions gave rise to a rich current of thought celebrating blackness and rejecting racism. What began as expulsion became a kind of rescue, cut short by Washington’s fears that wolves might be posing in sheep’s clothing.

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Harvard University Press

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0674985222

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Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle

A History of Performances by Hollywood Notables

By: Eric L. Flom

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Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle

A History of Performances by Hollywood Notables

By: Eric L. Flom

Before they became household names, many would-be Hollywood stars began their careers as small-time actors in regional theatres and playhouses. Few of them earned much recognition based on their time in the footlights, but often the stage provided these Hollywood hopefuls with their first break in show business. Drawing on material from the J. Willis Sayre Collection, a nearly unbroken accumulation of theatrical programs from 1865 to 1955, this book chronicles the Seattle stage engagements of more than 30 silent film personalities. Such Hollywood giants as Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, D.W. Griffith, and Buster Keaton, to name just a few, can trace their early careers through the Emerald City.

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0786439084

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Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar

By: Eric T. Jennings

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Vichy in the Tropics

Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-44

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Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-44

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Curing the Colonizers

Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas

By: Eric T. Jennings

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Curing the Colonizers

Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas

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Combines the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine to explain how therapeutic spas for colonists facilitated French imperialism between 1830 and 1962.

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French Africa in World War II

By: Eric T. Jennings

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French Africa in World War II

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Only months after France's defeat in 1940, a new army was raised in Africa to fight the Nazis. Eric T. Jennings tells the story of an improbable French military and institutional rebirth through Central Africa and gives a unique look at the role Free French Africa played during World War II.

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Escape from Vichy

The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean

By: Eric T. Jennings

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The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean

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Book's by Eric T. Jennings

Imperial Heights

Imperial Heights

Curing the Colonizers

Curing the Colonizers

Imperial Heights

Imperial Heights

Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar

Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar

Free French Africa in World War II

Free French Africa in World War II

An Honest Lie

An Honest Lie

Vichy in the Tropics

Vichy in the Tropics

Escape from Vichy

Escape from Vichy

Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle

Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle

Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar

Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar

Vichy in the Tropics

Vichy in the Tropics

Curing the Colonizers

Curing the Colonizers

French Africa in World War II

French Africa in World War II

Escape from Vichy

Escape from Vichy

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