William Gallois
Biographic Data
| ID | 530453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Gallois |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallois |
| SIGNATURE | GALLOIS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4378-068X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bosnian Hajj Literature
Uncolonialism/Bāb Art
How can we see beyond colonialism? And how might we be able to apprehend the work of those who saw themselves as living and creating the strictures of imperial control? This article argues for an uncolonial approach to knowledge creation, rejecting imperial history’s endless desire to uncover new bodies of evidence, which largely replicate our existing understanding of the ways in which Europeans subjugated Others. Instead, it argues for the ethi…
An Illumination of a Floating World
If a picture was not seen to be art when it was made, can we imagine that its producer may have designed the work to be read elsewhere in time or space? Or, perhaps, that the eyes that have been trained upon the work have rarely been those that were able to see and describe its value? This piece (also available on Instagram @cendrillondefes) tries to dramatize the gains that come to history through a process of learning to read a text whose signi…
Modernist history in the work of John Seed
Does it and should it matter when the work of writers is recognised? They are, after all, writing not just for those who are alive alongside them, but also for future generations. The great Portugu
The destruction of the Islamic state of being, its replacement in the being of the state
If settler colonies are driven by the impulse of destroying to replace, what was destroyed and how was it replaced in Algeria? This article shows how an Islamic state of being was replaced by the being of the state in the 1830s and the 1840s; a transformation largely achieved through complementary strategies of spectacular and slow violence, ranging from annihilatory massacres to the seizure of the productive capacity of peoples and their lands. …
The lexical violence of imperial culture
This article studies the history of a single word and its movement from pre-Islamic Arabia to the languages of modern Europe. It focuses on the key moment of the early nineteenth century when the Arabic ‘ghazwā’ served as the root and model of the French ‘razzia’ in the early Algerian colony. Tracing the history of the ghazwā through Islamic history and its subsequent emergence in Romance forms, the essay is comparative in the sense that it asks …
History Goes Walkabout
Could the methods of history-and not just its objects of study-be decolonized? This essay explores analogous areas of cultural production, such as painting, to determine how historians might begin to produce work that lies outside the Western, Euro-Christian imaginary. It focuses on the case of Australia and the means by which Aboriginal artists have reanimated and recalibrated traditional forms of knowledge, offering new bases for thinking about…
Violence lexicale de la culture impériale française
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Gallimard via the DOI in this record
Time, Religion and History
What is time? How does our sense of time lead us to approach the world? How did the peoples of the past view time? This book answers these questions through an investigation of the cultures of time in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and the Australian Dreamtime. It argues that our contemporary world is blind as to the significance and complexity of time, preferring to believe that time is ‘natural’ and unchanging. This is of critical impor…
A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony
Using newly-discovered documentation from the French military archives, A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony offers a comprehensive study of the forms of violence adopted by the French A
History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony
An Algerian Genocide?
Algeria would have been an extremely unusual settler colony had it experienced no genocidal moment. As Herman Merivale, professor of political economy at Oxford from 1837 until 1842, remarked: The history of the European settlements in America, Africa, and Australia presents everywhere the same general features — a wide and sweeping destruction of native races by controlled violence of individuals, if not of colonial authorities, followed by tard…
Genocide in nineteenth-century Algeria
While the French colony of Algeria was known to have been a violent place, historians have rarely compared the specificities and contours of its violent culture with those of other nineteenth-century settler colonies such as Australia and America. This review article asks why this has been the case and whether new definitions of genocide that have emerged from the study of other colonies might not be applied to Algeria. It contends that the syste…
Zen history
Given that historians have a voracious interest in studying the distinctiveness of cultures aross the world and across time, why do they have so little interest in learning or borrowing from the temporal and historical cultures of those places? This essay offers a practical case study of Buddhism, looking both at the richness and radical difference of Buddhist temporalities, as well as asking how these ideas might be used by modern writers to mak…
Andreas-Holger Maehle, Doctors, Honour and the Law
Readers of Andreas-Holger Maehle's fascinating new study of medicine and ethics may well be reminded that the inventor of the term ‘medical ethics’, Thomas Percival (1780–1804), also coined the expression ‘professional ethics’. These two ideas seem to have been almost interchangeable in Germany between 1870 and 1914, for Maehle describes a culture in which debates about professional norms and standards dominated ethical discussion, rather than an…
The Administration of Sickness
This book is the first comprehensive study of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization was a priority for colonial regimes, but this goal was thwarted by ineffe
On Attendance to Suffering and Demographic Collapse
On 11 June 1868, an unnamed French colon from the town of Ruisseau wrote to the Governor General begging for greater levels of support for local indigènes. The sentiment which underlay his letter, he asserted, was ‘a sympathy for all men’: ‘if it would be possible to better their position, this would be a just act and an expression of well-judged charity’. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental…
Local Responses to French Medical Imperialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Algeria
This article offers the first account of the lives of Algerian-born doctors working in the French colonial medical service between 1870 and 1900. Their stories reveal the manner in which the idea of medical imperialism had collapsed in Algeria, as a result of maladministration, racial policies, competition between civil and military authorities, budgetary constraints and the rise of the colons. The article also indicates the way in which medicine…
Emile Zola's Forgotten History
This article argues that while Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart has retained its enduring status as a work of fiction, the cycle has become curiously forgotten as a work of history and, more specifically, as an historical argument. This essay asks, therefore, why Zola is not seen as an historian and sets out the gains which can come to historians through studies of the cycle. It addresses both questions of form—in terms of connections between Zol…
Genocide in nineteenth-century Algeria
While the French colony of Algeria was known to have been a violent place, historians have rarely compared the specificities and contours of its violent culture with those of other nineteenth-century settler colonies such as Australia and America. This review article asks why this has been the case and whether new definitions of genocide that have emerged from the study of other colonies might not be applied to Algeria. It contends that the syste…
Local Responses to French Medical Imperialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Algeria
This article offers the first account of the lives of Algerian-born doctors working in the French colonial medical service between 1870 and 1900. Their stories reveal the manner in which the idea of medical imperialism had collapsed in Algeria, as a result of maladministration, racial policies, competition between civil and military authorities, budgetary constraints and the rise of the colons. The article also indicates the way in which medicine…
History Goes Walkabout
Could the methods of history-and not just its objects of study-be decolonized? This essay explores analogous areas of cultural production, such as painting, to determine how historians might begin to produce work that lies outside the Western, Euro-Christian imaginary. It focuses on the case of Australia and the means by which Aboriginal artists have reanimated and recalibrated traditional forms of knowledge, offering new bases for thinking about…
The lexical violence of imperial culture
This article studies the history of a single word and its movement from pre-Islamic Arabia to the languages of modern Europe. It focuses on the key moment of the early nineteenth century when the Arabic ‘ghazwā’ served as the root and model of the French ‘razzia’ in the early Algerian colony. Tracing the history of the ghazwā through Islamic history and its subsequent emergence in Romance forms, the essay is comparative in the sense that it asks …
Emile Zola's Forgotten History
This article argues that while Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart has retained its enduring status as a work of fiction, the cycle has become curiously forgotten as a work of history and, more specifically, as an historical argument. This essay asks, therefore, why Zola is not seen as an historian and sets out the gains which can come to historians through studies of the cycle. It addresses both questions of form—in terms of connections between Zol…
Local Responses to French Medical Imperialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Algeria
This article offers the first account of the lives of Algerian-born doctors working in the French colonial medical service between 1870 and 1900. Their stories reveal the manner in which the idea of medical imperialism had collapsed in Algeria, as a result of maladministration, racial policies, competition between civil and military authorities, budgetary constraints and the rise of the colons. The article also indicates the way in which medicine…
The Administration of Sickness
This book is the first comprehensive study of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization was a priority for colonial regimes, but this goal was thwarted by ineffe
On Attendance to Suffering and Demographic Collapse
On 11 June 1868, an unnamed French colon from the town of Ruisseau wrote to the Governor General begging for greater levels of support for local indigènes. The sentiment which underlay his letter, he asserted, was ‘a sympathy for all men’: ‘if it would be possible to better their position, this would be a just act and an expression of well-judged charity’. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental…
Zen history
Given that historians have a voracious interest in studying the distinctiveness of cultures aross the world and across time, why do they have so little interest in learning or borrowing from the temporal and historical cultures of those places? This essay offers a practical case study of Buddhism, looking both at the richness and radical difference of Buddhist temporalities, as well as asking how these ideas might be used by modern writers to mak…
Andreas-Holger Maehle, Doctors, Honour and the Law
Readers of Andreas-Holger Maehle's fascinating new study of medicine and ethics may well be reminded that the inventor of the term ‘medical ethics’, Thomas Percival (1780–1804), also coined the expression ‘professional ethics’. These two ideas seem to have been almost interchangeable in Germany between 1870 and 1914, for Maehle describes a culture in which debates about professional norms and standards dominated ethical discussion, rather than an…
A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony
Using newly-discovered documentation from the French military archives, A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony offers a comprehensive study of the forms of violence adopted by the French A
History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony
An Algerian Genocide?
Algeria would have been an extremely unusual settler colony had it experienced no genocidal moment. As Herman Merivale, professor of political economy at Oxford from 1837 until 1842, remarked: The history of the European settlements in America, Africa, and Australia presents everywhere the same general features — a wide and sweeping destruction of native races by controlled violence of individuals, if not of colonial authorities, followed by tard…
Genocide in nineteenth-century Algeria
While the French colony of Algeria was known to have been a violent place, historians have rarely compared the specificities and contours of its violent culture with those of other nineteenth-century settler colonies such as Australia and America. This review article asks why this has been the case and whether new definitions of genocide that have emerged from the study of other colonies might not be applied to Algeria. It contends that the syste…
Time, Religion and History
What is time? How does our sense of time lead us to approach the world? How did the peoples of the past view time? This book answers these questions through an investigation of the cultures of time in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and the Australian Dreamtime. It argues that our contemporary world is blind as to the significance and complexity of time, preferring to believe that time is ‘natural’ and unchanging. This is of critical impor…
History Goes Walkabout
Could the methods of history-and not just its objects of study-be decolonized? This essay explores analogous areas of cultural production, such as painting, to determine how historians might begin to produce work that lies outside the Western, Euro-Christian imaginary. It focuses on the case of Australia and the means by which Aboriginal artists have reanimated and recalibrated traditional forms of knowledge, offering new bases for thinking about…
Violence lexicale de la culture impériale française
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Gallimard via the DOI in this record
The destruction of the Islamic state of being, its replacement in the being of the state
If settler colonies are driven by the impulse of destroying to replace, what was destroyed and how was it replaced in Algeria? This article shows how an Islamic state of being was replaced by the being of the state in the 1830s and the 1840s; a transformation largely achieved through complementary strategies of spectacular and slow violence, ranging from annihilatory massacres to the seizure of the productive capacity of peoples and their lands. …
The lexical violence of imperial culture
This article studies the history of a single word and its movement from pre-Islamic Arabia to the languages of modern Europe. It focuses on the key moment of the early nineteenth century when the Arabic ‘ghazwā’ served as the root and model of the French ‘razzia’ in the early Algerian colony. Tracing the history of the ghazwā through Islamic history and its subsequent emergence in Romance forms, the essay is comparative in the sense that it asks …
Modernist history in the work of John Seed
Does it and should it matter when the work of writers is recognised? They are, after all, writing not just for those who are alive alongside them, but also for future generations. The great Portugu
An Illumination of a Floating World
If a picture was not seen to be art when it was made, can we imagine that its producer may have designed the work to be read elsewhere in time or space? Or, perhaps, that the eyes that have been trained upon the work have rarely been those that were able to see and describe its value? This piece (also available on Instagram @cendrillondefes) tries to dramatize the gains that come to history through a process of learning to read a text whose signi…
Uncolonialism/Bāb Art
How can we see beyond colonialism? And how might we be able to apprehend the work of those who saw themselves as living and creating the strictures of imperial control? This article argues for an uncolonial approach to knowledge creation, rejecting imperial history’s endless desire to uncover new bodies of evidence, which largely replicate our existing understanding of the ways in which Europeans subjugated Others. Instead, it argues for the ethi…
Bosnian Hajj Literature
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