Owen White

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Owen White specializes in the history of modern France and the French colonial empire, with particular research interests in French West Africa and Algeria. He received his B.A. from the University of Exeter (in England), and his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1996. He has published articles on a variety of aspects of French colonial history, and a book entitled Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895-1960. His current research interests include Catholic missionaries and the French Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the history of wine production in French Algeria.

Select publications:

Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895-1960 (Oxford University Press, 1999)

"Miscegenation and the Popular Imagination," in T. Chafer and A. Sackur (eds.),
Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (Palgrave, 2001)

"The Decivilizing Mission: Auguste Dupuis-Yakouba and French Timbuktu," in French Historical Studies, summer 2004

"Networking: Freemasons and the Colonial State in French West Africa, 1895-1914," in French History, March 2005

"Priests into Frenchmen? Breton Missionaries in Côte d'Ivoire, 1896-1918," in French
Colonial History, 2007

"Drunken States: Temperance and French Rule in Côte d'Ivoire, 1908-1916," in Journal
of Social History, spring 2007

"Conquest and Cohabitation: French Men's Relations with West African Women in the
1890s and 1900s," in Martin Thomas (ed.), The French Colonial Mind
(University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming)