Chapter 1 Conflicting Modernities: Battles Over France’s Policy of Adapted Education in French West Africa

Chapter 3 Decolonisation Without Independence? Breaking with the Colonial in New Caledonia (1946–1975)

Chapter 4 Rule of Experts? Governing Modernisation in Late Colonial French Africa

Chapter 5 From Tent to Village Regroupement: The Colonial State and Social Engineering of Rural Space, 1843–1962

Chapter 6 Shantytowns and Rehousing in Late Colonial Algiers and Casablanca

Chapter 7 Promoting ‘Harmonious Cohabitation’ in the Metropole: The Welfare Charity Aide Aux Travailleurs D’Outre Mer (1950–1975)

Chapter 8 Protests Against Shantytowns in the 1950s and 1960s: Class Logics, Clientelist Relations and ‘Colonial Redeployments’

Chapter 9 Colonial Legacies: Housing Policy and Riot Prevention Strategies in the Minguettes District of Vénissieux