Empire on the Seine : the policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975 / Amit Prakash.
Series: Oxford studies in modern European history: ; Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191925412 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Discrimination in law enforcement -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century | North Africans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century | Paris (France) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780192898876DDC classification: 363.2308992761044361 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Why are relations between minorities and the police in France so fraught? Stripping away the myth that this tension is a sudden and recent disruption of its universalist republican tradition brought on by the presence of North African immigrants, Amit Prakash locates the origins of contemporary conflicts in race and empire in France's history. In 'Empire on the Seine,' Prakash argues that the mâetropole and the colony dynamically co-developed a policing regime over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries to manage colonial and racial difference.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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This edition also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why are relations between minorities and the police in France so fraught? Stripping away the myth that this tension is a sudden and recent disruption of its universalist republican tradition brought on by the presence of North African immigrants, Amit Prakash locates the origins of contemporary conflicts in race and empire in France's history. In 'Empire on the Seine,' Prakash argues that the mâetropole and the colony dynamically co-developed a policing regime over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries to manage colonial and racial difference.
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