Martin Thomas is a professor of colonial history at Exeter University. He is the author of several books, including The French Empire Between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics, and Society and Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914.  Contributors include Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Emanuelle Sibeud, Ruth Ginio, John Strachan, Anne Raffin, Kenneth Orosz, Maria Del Mar Logrono, Jennifer Dueck, James D. Le Sueur, Martin Shipway, Veronique Dimier, Tony Chafer, Todd D. Shepard, and Alexander Keese.

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping the French Colonial Mind Part 1: Colonial Encounters and Imaginings of Empire1. Reflections on the French Colonial Mind Patricia M. E. Lorcin2. Intellectuals for Empire? The Imperial Training of Félicien Challaye, 18991914 Emmanuelle Sibeud3. Colonial Minds and African Witchcraft: Interpretations of Murder as Seen in Cases from French West Africa in the Interwar Era Ruth Ginio4. The Colonial Cosmology of Fernand Braudel John Strachan5. Mental Maps of Modernity in Colonial Indochina during World War II: Mobilizing Sport to Combat Threats to French Rule Anne RaffinPart 2: Language, Culture, and Communities of the Colonial Mind6. Anticlericalism, French Language Policy, and the Conflicted Colonial Mind in Cameroon, 19231939 Kenneth J. Orosz7. Information and Intelligence Collection among Imperial Subjects Abroad: The Case of Syrians and Lebanese in Latin America, 19151930 María del Mar Logroño Narbona8. Religious Rivalry and Cultural Policymaking in Lebanon under the French Mandate Jennifer M. Dueck9. France's Arabic Educational Reforms in Algeria during the Colonial Era: Language Instruction in Colonial and Anticolonial Minds before and after Algerian Independence James D. Le SueurPart 3: Administrators and the Colonial Mind after World War II10. Thinking Like an Empire: Governor Henri Laurentie and Postwar Plans for the Late Colonial French "Empire-State" Martin Shipway11. Recycling Empire: French Colonial Administrators at the Heart of European Development Policy Véronique Dimier12. Friend or Foe? Competing Visions of Empire in French West Africa in the Run-up to Independence Tony Chafer13. Thinking between Metropole and Colony: The French Republic, "Exceptional Promotion," and the "Integration" of Algerians, 19551962 Todd Shepard14. Rigged Elections? Democracy and Manipulation in the Late Colonial State in French West Africa and Togo, 19441958 Alexander KeeseList of Contributors Index

"Edited by Martin Thomas, it gathers contributions from well- and lesser-known scholars of French colonial history alike... The French Colonial Mind is a well-conceived and well-executed edited collection. It is undoubtedly a significant work, being of interest to both scholars of French colonial history and of those looking to improve their understanding of the ways in which imperial thinking shaped the modern world." - Marcia Goncalves, European Review of History, April 2013