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Barnhart, James David.

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Violence and the civilizing mission: Native justice in French colonial Vietnam, 1858-1914.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Violence and the civilizing mission: Native justice in French colonial Vietnam, 1858-1914./
Author:	Barnhart, James David.
Description:	1134 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Colin Lucas.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-08A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9943042
ISBN:	0599447222

Violence and the civilizing mission: Native justice in French colonial Vietnam, 1858-1914.
Barnhart, James David.

Violence and the civilizing mission: Native justice in French colonial Vietnam, 1858-1914. - 1134 p.

Adviser: Colin Lucas.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 1999.

This study traces the evolution of colonial justice in Vietnam from the beginning of French imperial rule to the outbreak of World War I. Rather than a conventional legal history, it is framed as a cross-cultural study of two distinct styles of social discipline, intersecting in the milieu of colonialism. In particular, it seeks to assess the impact of the French <italic>mission civilisatrice</italic>, the mandate to proscribe “barbaric” customs and initiate colonial subjects to modernity. Certain traditional practices of Vietnamese justice roused special consternation among colonial critics: corporal punishment; prolonged public executions; interrogatory torture; the presumption of guilt; collective punishments; and the non-separation of judicial and executive powers. However, legal reform presented nearly insoluble dilemmas to the new colonial administration. Extirpating all practices offensive to French sensibilities required a sweeping revolution in native society far beyond the regime's material and human resources. Assimilationist reforms also displaced local authorities and violated ancient traditions, inspiring resentment rather than gratitude. However, tolerating native authorities and customs (“association”) meant abdicating the moral role which alone justified political domination. Particularly after 1879, with the consolidation of the Third Republic, it became inconceivable to disavow the judicial <italic> mission civilisatrice</italic>. Its rhetorical alchemy reconciled conflicting imperatives of the colonial identity (e.g., conquest and liberation), and was one of the few tangible ways in which republicanism could be articulated in the colonial context.

ISBN: 0599447222Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Violence and the civilizing mission: Native justice in French colonial Vietnam, 1858-1914.
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