| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Alice Bullard. Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790–1900. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2000. Pp. 380. $55.00.

Previous scholars have written about the lot of the people who rose up in revolt in Paris in March 1871, the Communards, 4,000 of whom were deported to New Caledonia, while others have written about the interaction of France and the indigenous Kanak peoples. Alice Bullard is the first to seek a connection between the political deportees and the Kanaks on this Pacific island. 1

The fruit of the linguistic turn, Bullard's study emphasizes the degree to which both the Communards and Kanaks were viewed as "savages." Under firm rule overseas, each group's members were to be transformed into civilized beings, although the means used were far from civilized. The Kanaks were stripped of their land, forced into subjugation, and, when protesting their condition, killed in various military expeditions. The Communard deportees were beaten, starved, tortured, and, in many cases, worked to death. . . .

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