Owen White
Biographic Data
| ID | 87421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7406-7361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Electric News in Colonial Algeria
Blood of the Colony
The Blood of the Colony
Under French rule, majority Muslim Algeria became one of the world’s largest wine producers. Owen White explores the impact of the wine industry on what was France’s most important possession—and on the Algerians for whom grapevines became a hated symbol of colonial exploitation.
Great Men in Greater France
Cet article examine l’oeuvre du cinéaste Léon Poirier, un grand champion des vertus de l’empire colonial français pendant l’entre-deux-guerres. En dépit de son financement par des donateurs pour la plupart conservateurs, L’Appel du silence (1936), film biographique sur le père missionnaire Charles de Foucauld—assassiné en 1916 dans le désert sud-Algérien—plaisait néanmoins à un public très large. Beaucoup moins couronné de succès fut le film de P…
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I
This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work, the environment, law, health and religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate: colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation with elements of local society, while th…
Decolonization and the French of Algeria
The status of the territory called French Algeria generated many peculiarities in its 130-odd years of existence, but one of the oddest emerged at its end: the labelling of people who had grown up French citizens in French départements as ‘repatriates’ when they left Algeria and headed ‘home’ to France—a land that many had never previously seen. Sung-Eun Choi’s perceptive and useful book abounds in such paradoxes. As she explains, ‘repatriate’ as…
The French Empire and the History of Economic Life
This introduction to the dossier “Wine, Economy, and Empire” surveys the place of economic history in the field of French Empire studies over the last twenty years. Drawing upon the concept of “economic life” as defined by William Sewell, the authors argue that a renewed focus on economic activity within the French Empire offers new opportunities to interrogate commonplace ideas about chronology, imperial forms, and structures of power. The artic…
Roll Out the Barrel
When shipping companies first experimented with transporting wine in steel containers in the 1930s they promised to revolutionize the way French Algeria sent its most important export to metropolitan France. What capitalists saw as a rational and efficient use of new technology, however, dockworkers and barrel-makers saw as a dire threat to their livelihoods in a time of intense economic hardship. This article traces the social conflict that foll…
In God’s Empire
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
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…
Builders of Empire
Journal Article Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927 Get access Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927, by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs (Chapel Hill, NC: U. of North Carolina P., 2007; pp. 384. $39.95). Owen White Owen White University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 506, February 2009, Pag…
Drunken States
Journal Article Drunken States: Temperance and French Rule in Côte D'Ivoire, 1908–1916 Get access Owen White Owen White Department of History, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 3, Spring 2007, Pages 663–684, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0078 Published: 01 March 2007
Networking
Journal Article Networking: Freemasons and the Colonial State in French West Africa, 1895–1914 Get access Owen White Owen White Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 91–111, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cri002 Published: 01 March 2005
The Decivilizing Mission
Research Article| August 01 2004 The Decivilizing Mission: Auguste Dupuis-Yakouba and French Timbuktu Owen White Owen White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2004) 27 (3): 541–568. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-27-3-541 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Owen White; The Decivilizing Mission: Auguste Dupuis-Yakouba and French Timbu…
Miscegenation and the Popular Imagination
French imaginations in the first half of the twentieth century were easily stirred by the subject of miscegenation — the interbreeding of people classified as belonging to different races. Miscegenation is an ugly word, which itself seems almost to imply that somebody has done something wrong. In fact, this was a commonly held view in early twentieth-century France, but, as I will be suggesting later, it does not tell the whole story. Much has be…
Children of the French Empire
This book vividly recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the nineteenth century, until independence in 1960. Set within the context of the history of miscegenation in colonial French West Africa, the study focuses upon the lives and identities of the resulting mixed-race or metis population, and their struggle to overcome …
Children of the French Empire
This volume recreates the lives and identities of the children born of relationships between French men and African women in colonial French West Africa. It shows how colonial policies and attitudes influenced this population.
Children of the French Empire
This book recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the 19th century, until independence in 1960. Set within the context of the history of miscegenation in colonial French West Africa, the study focuses upon the lives and identities of the resulting mixed-race or mÉtis population, and their struggle to overcome the handicaps …
Abandonment and Intervention
This chapter examines the thinking which led to the creation of special homes for mÉtis children deemed to have been abandoned by their parents, set up first by missionaries, and by the colonial administration itself. It discusses the factors which figured the actions and attitudes of French men, showing how these actions and attitudes help us to know the lives of the mixed-race population of French West Africa.
Shorter notice. Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. M Klein
Journal Article Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. M Klein Get access O White O White University College, Oxford, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 459, November 1999, Pages 1343–1344, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1343 Published: 01 November 1999
Des sciences contre l'homme. Claude Blanckaert
Some Properties Of Three Factor Contribution Matrices
Some properties of three matrices which have been proposed as quantitative bases for factor interpretation are discussed. The first of these contains as elements the covariances of the tests with weighted factor scores. Interpretations of the row sums and column sums of this matrix are given and its independence of the primary factor-reference vector distinction is demonstrated. Two matrices of part correlations are shown to be proportional by co…
Children of the French Empire
This book vividly recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the nineteenth century, until independence in 1960. Set within the context of the history of miscegenation in colonial French West Africa, the study focuses upon the lives and identities of the resulting mixed-race or metis population, and their struggle to overcome …
Builders of Empire
Journal Article Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927 Get access Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927, by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs (Chapel Hill, NC: U. of North Carolina P., 2007; pp. 384. $39.95). Owen White Owen White University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 506, February 2009, Pag…
The Decivilizing Mission
Research Article| August 01 2004 The Decivilizing Mission: Auguste Dupuis-Yakouba and French Timbuktu Owen White Owen White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2004) 27 (3): 541–568. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-27-3-541 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Owen White; The Decivilizing Mission: Auguste Dupuis-Yakouba and French Timbu…
Drunken States
Journal Article Drunken States: Temperance and French Rule in Côte D'Ivoire, 1908–1916 Get access Owen White Owen White Department of History, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 3, Spring 2007, Pages 663–684, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0078 Published: 01 March 2007
Networking
Journal Article Networking: Freemasons and the Colonial State in French West Africa, 1895–1914 Get access Owen White Owen White Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 91–111, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cri002 Published: 01 March 2005
Some Properties Of Three Factor Contribution Matrices
Some properties of three matrices which have been proposed as quantitative bases for factor interpretation are discussed. The first of these contains as elements the covariances of the tests with weighted factor scores. Interpretations of the row sums and column sums of this matrix are given and its independence of the primary factor-reference vector distinction is demonstrated. Two matrices of part correlations are shown to be proportional by co…
Des sciences contre l'homme. Claude Blanckaert
Children of the French Empire
This book recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the 19th century, until independence in 1960. Set within the context of the history of miscegenation in colonial French West Africa, the study focuses upon the lives and identities of the resulting mixed-race or mÉtis population, and their struggle to overcome the handicaps …
Abandonment and Intervention
This chapter examines the thinking which led to the creation of special homes for mÉtis children deemed to have been abandoned by their parents, set up first by missionaries, and by the colonial administration itself. It discusses the factors which figured the actions and attitudes of French men, showing how these actions and attitudes help us to know the lives of the mixed-race population of French West Africa.
Shorter notice. Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. M Klein
Journal Article Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. M Klein Get access O White O White University College, Oxford, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 459, November 1999, Pages 1343–1344, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1343 Published: 01 November 1999
Children of the French Empire
This volume recreates the lives and identities of the children born of relationships between French men and African women in colonial French West Africa. It shows how colonial policies and attitudes influenced this population.
Children of the French Empire
This book vividly recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the nineteenth century, until independence in 1960. Set within the context of the history of miscegenation in colonial French West Africa, the study focuses upon the lives and identities of the resulting mixed-race or metis population, and their struggle to overcome …
Miscegenation and the Popular Imagination
French imaginations in the first half of the twentieth century were easily stirred by the subject of miscegenation — the interbreeding of people classified as belonging to different races. Miscegenation is an ugly word, which itself seems almost to imply that somebody has done something wrong. In fact, this was a commonly held view in early twentieth-century France, but, as I will be suggesting later, it does not tell the whole story. Much has be…
The Decivilizing Mission
Research Article| August 01 2004 The Decivilizing Mission: Auguste Dupuis-Yakouba and French Timbuktu Owen White Owen White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2004) 27 (3): 541–568. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-27-3-541 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Owen White; The Decivilizing Mission: Auguste Dupuis-Yakouba and French Timbu…
Networking
Journal Article Networking: Freemasons and the Colonial State in French West Africa, 1895–1914 Get access Owen White Owen White Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 91–111, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cri002 Published: 01 March 2005
Drunken States
Journal Article Drunken States: Temperance and French Rule in Côte D'Ivoire, 1908–1916 Get access Owen White Owen White Department of History, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 3, Spring 2007, Pages 663–684, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0078 Published: 01 March 2007
Builders of Empire
Journal Article Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927 Get access Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927, by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs (Chapel Hill, NC: U. of North Carolina P., 2007; pp. 384. $39.95). Owen White Owen White University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 506, February 2009, Pag…
In God’s Empire
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
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…
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I
This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work, the environment, law, health and religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate: colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation with elements of local society, while th…
Decolonization and the French of Algeria
The status of the territory called French Algeria generated many peculiarities in its 130-odd years of existence, but one of the oddest emerged at its end: the labelling of people who had grown up French citizens in French départements as ‘repatriates’ when they left Algeria and headed ‘home’ to France—a land that many had never previously seen. Sung-Eun Choi’s perceptive and useful book abounds in such paradoxes. As she explains, ‘repatriate’ as…
The French Empire and the History of Economic Life
This introduction to the dossier “Wine, Economy, and Empire” surveys the place of economic history in the field of French Empire studies over the last twenty years. Drawing upon the concept of “economic life” as defined by William Sewell, the authors argue that a renewed focus on economic activity within the French Empire offers new opportunities to interrogate commonplace ideas about chronology, imperial forms, and structures of power. The artic…
Roll Out the Barrel
When shipping companies first experimented with transporting wine in steel containers in the 1930s they promised to revolutionize the way French Algeria sent its most important export to metropolitan France. What capitalists saw as a rational and efficient use of new technology, however, dockworkers and barrel-makers saw as a dire threat to their livelihoods in a time of intense economic hardship. This article traces the social conflict that foll…
Great Men in Greater France
Cet article examine l’oeuvre du cinéaste Léon Poirier, un grand champion des vertus de l’empire colonial français pendant l’entre-deux-guerres. En dépit de son financement par des donateurs pour la plupart conservateurs, L’Appel du silence (1936), film biographique sur le père missionnaire Charles de Foucauld—assassiné en 1916 dans le désert sud-Algérien—plaisait néanmoins à un public très large. Beaucoup moins couronné de succès fut le film de P…
The Blood of the Colony
Under French rule, majority Muslim Algeria became one of the world’s largest wine producers. Owen White explores the impact of the wine industry on what was France’s most important possession—and on the Algerians for whom grapevines became a hated symbol of colonial exploitation.
Blood of the Colony
Electric News in Colonial Algeria
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