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).
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