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The Settler Colonial Ideal in Nineteenth-Century France: From Revolutionary Shipwreck to Settler Colonial Shores

Charlotte Ann Legg
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2025-01-16
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ISSN: 00225037, 10863222
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Abstract: This article analyzes the published testimonies of French shipwreck survivors to trace the emergence of a settler colonial ideal in nineteenth-century France. Emerging from the encounters of French survivors with the men of the Anglo-World, this ideal encouraged compassionate, paternalist authority as a solution to the ongoing conflict of paternal despotism and disorderly fraternal freedom in France. The community of sentiment imagined in shipwreck testimonies was gendered and racialized, cultivating white compassion across colonial empires. These transimperial affective ties allowed the settler colonial ideal to persist in the early twentieth century, despite the abandonment of further projects for French settlement.

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Legg C. A. The Settler Colonial Ideal in Nineteenth-Century France: From Revolutionary Shipwreck to Settler Colonial Shores // Journal of the History of Ideas. 2025. Vol. 86. No. 1. pp. 109-139.
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Legg C. A. The Settler Colonial Ideal in Nineteenth-Century France: From Revolutionary Shipwreck to Settler Colonial Shores // Journal of the History of Ideas. 2025. Vol. 86. No. 1. pp. 109-139.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1353/jhi.2025.a949929
UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/949929
TI - The Settler Colonial Ideal in Nineteenth-Century France: From Revolutionary Shipwreck to Settler Colonial Shores
T2 - Journal of the History of Ideas
AU - Legg, Charlotte Ann
PY - 2025
DA - 2025/01/16
PB - Project MUSE
SP - 109-139
IS - 1
VL - 86
SN - 0022-5037
SN - 1086-3222
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@article{2025_Legg,
author = {Charlotte Ann Legg},
title = {The Settler Colonial Ideal in Nineteenth-Century France: From Revolutionary Shipwreck to Settler Colonial Shores},
journal = {Journal of the History of Ideas},
year = {2025},
volume = {86},
publisher = {Project MUSE},
month = {jan},
url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/949929},
number = {1},
pages = {109--139},
doi = {10.1353/jhi.2025.a949929}
}
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Legg, Charlotte Ann. “The Settler Colonial Ideal in Nineteenth-Century France: From Revolutionary Shipwreck to Settler Colonial Shores.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 86, no. 1, Jan. 2025, pp. 109-139. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/949929.