J P Daughton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1111045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J P Daughton |
| GIVEN NAMES | J P |
| FAMILY NAME | Daughton |
| SIGNATURE | DAUGHTON J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France
A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Patrick Boucheron, editor. France in the World: A New Global History
One spring afternoon, a boy came to a rocky hillside in a region that his family had visited before. Following some men from his community, he climbed through a narrow opening into the dim cool of a cave. The men lit torches, the light dancing on the rough walls, and walked deeper into the liquid darkness of the chamber. At some point, they stopped and one of the men told the boy to close his eyes for a few moments. When he opened them again, the…
The "Pacha Affair" Reconsidered: Violence and Colonial Rule in Interwar French Equatorial Africa
In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World
A collection of thirteen chapters by leading scholars in the field, this book examines the complex ways in which the spread of Christianity by French men and women shaped local communities, French national prowess, and global politics in the two centuries following the French Revolution. More than a story of religious proselytism, missionary activity was an essential feature of French contact and interaction with local populations. In many parts …
Introduction: Placing French Missionaries in the Modern World
This introductory chapter assesses the way in which religious missionaries have been dealt with—and often ignored—in the historiography of modern French colonialism. Missionaries defy many of the categories commonly used to study the history of empires. Religious workers complicate concepts like modernity, nationalism, and even empire since they regularly portrayed themselves as inheritors of a biblical tradition of evangelizing across national a…
In God's empire: French missionaries in the modern world
A collection of 13 essays by leading scholars in the field, this book examines the complex ways in which the spread of Christianity by French men and women shaped local communities French national prowess, and global politics in the two centuries following the French Revolution
Behind the Imperial Curtain: International Humanitarian Efforts and the Critique of French Colonialism in the Interwar Years
This article examines the work of French critics of empire in the context of an international effort to minimize violence and suffering in Europe's colonies during the interwar years. Rather than highlight individual political motivations, the article considers the important similarities of these critics' works. Often writing in the style of documentary reportage and concerned with how policies caused suffering among non-European populations, aut…
When Argentina Was “French”: Rethinking Cultural Politics and European Imperialism in Belle‐Époque Buenos Aires
Behind the Imperial Curtain: International Humanitarian Efforts and the Critique of French Colonialism in the Interwar Years
This article examines the work of French critics of empire in the context of an international effort to minimize violence and suffering in Europe's colonies during the interwar years. Rather than highlight individual political motivations, the article considers the important similarities of these critics' works. Often writing in the style of documentary reportage and concerned with how policies caused suffering among non-European populations, aut…
When Argentina Was “French”: Rethinking Cultural Politics and European Imperialism in Belle‐Époque Buenos Aires
The "Pacha Affair" Reconsidered: Violence and Colonial Rule in Interwar French Equatorial Africa
When Argentina Was “French”: Rethinking Cultural Politics and European Imperialism in Belle‐Époque Buenos Aires
Behind the Imperial Curtain: International Humanitarian Efforts and the Critique of French Colonialism in the Interwar Years
This article examines the work of French critics of empire in the context of an international effort to minimize violence and suffering in Europe's colonies during the interwar years. Rather than highlight individual political motivations, the article considers the important similarities of these critics' works. Often writing in the style of documentary reportage and concerned with how policies caused suffering among non-European populations, aut…
In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World
A collection of thirteen chapters by leading scholars in the field, this book examines the complex ways in which the spread of Christianity by French men and women shaped local communities, French national prowess, and global politics in the two centuries following the French Revolution. More than a story of religious proselytism, missionary activity was an essential feature of French contact and interaction with local populations. In many parts …
Introduction: Placing French Missionaries in the Modern World
This introductory chapter assesses the way in which religious missionaries have been dealt with—and often ignored—in the historiography of modern French colonialism. Missionaries defy many of the categories commonly used to study the history of empires. Religious workers complicate concepts like modernity, nationalism, and even empire since they regularly portrayed themselves as inheritors of a biblical tradition of evangelizing across national a…
In God's empire: French missionaries in the modern world
A collection of 13 essays by leading scholars in the field, this book examines the complex ways in which the spread of Christianity by French men and women shaped local communities French national prowess, and global politics in the two centuries following the French Revolution
The "Pacha Affair" Reconsidered: Violence and Colonial Rule in Interwar French Equatorial Africa
Patrick Boucheron, editor. France in the World: A New Global History
One spring afternoon, a boy came to a rocky hillside in a region that his family had visited before. Following some men from his community, he climbed through a narrow opening into the dim cool of a cave. The men lit torches, the light dancing on the rough walls, and walked deeper into the liquid darkness of the chamber. At some point, they stopped and one of the men told the boy to close his eyes for a few moments. When he opened them again, the…
A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France
History (7 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)