Amit Prakash is a historian specializing in the history of policing, modern imperialism, and decolonization. He has taught at Columbia University, Bryn Mawr College, Poly Prep, and the Trinity School in New York City. He is co-host of the politics and history podcast No Politics at the Dinner Table. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the International and Global Studies program at Middlebury College.

In this wonderful, wide-ranging book, Amit Prakash uncovers the many layers of French anxiety over North African immigration. With great theoretical sophistication and thorough archival detective work, he takes the reader through police efforts to come to terms with, to understand, a process that consistently baffled them, to make North African immigration to Paris comprehensible and, ultimately, manageable. While their efforts famously failed, they laid the foundation for durable patterns of discrimination and inequality that remain of urgent concern.

• Introduction: Policing Imperial Paris 1: The Police Conception of North Africans 2: The Police Production of Space 3: The Coming of the Algerian Revolution 4: Imperial Sentinels 5: Droit de Cité(s) 6: The Quest for 'Autonomy' Conclusion: Imperial Shadows

Amit Prakash is a historian specializing in the history of policing, modern imperialism, and decolonization. He has taught at Columbia University, Bryn Mawr College, Poly Prep, and the Trinity School in New York City. He is co-host of the politics and history podcast No Politics at the Dinner Table. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the International and Global Studies program at Middlebury College.

In this wonderful, wide-ranging book, Amit Prakash uncovers the many layers of French anxiety over North African immigration. With great theoretical sophistication and thorough archival detective work, he takes the reader through police efforts to come to terms with, to understand, a process that consistently baffled them, to make North African immigration to Paris comprehensible and, ultimately, manageable. While their efforts famously failed, they laid the foundation for durable patterns of discrimination and inequality that remain of urgent concern.

• Introduction: Policing Imperial Paris 1: The Police Conception of North Africans 2: The Police Production of Space 3: The Coming of the Algerian Revolution 4: Imperial Sentinels 5: Droit de Cité(s) 6: The Quest for 'Autonomy' Conclusion: Imperial Shadows

Amit Prakash is a historian specializing in the history of policing, modern imperialism, and decolonization. He has taught at Columbia University, Bryn Mawr College, Poly Prep, and the Trinity School in New York City. He is co-host of the politics and history podcast No Politics at the Dinner Table. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the International and Global Studies program at Middlebury College.

In this wonderful, wide-ranging book, Amit Prakash uncovers the many layers of French anxiety over North African immigration. With great theoretical sophistication and thorough archival detective work, he takes the reader through police efforts to come to terms with, to understand, a process that consistently baffled them, to make North African immigration to Paris comprehensible and, ultimately, manageable. While their efforts famously failed, they laid the foundation for durable patterns of discrimination and inequality that remain of urgent concern.

• Introduction: Policing Imperial Paris 1: The Police Conception of North Africans 2: The Police Production of Space 3: The Coming of the Algerian Revolution 4: Imperial Sentinels 5: Droit de Cité(s) 6: The Quest for 'Autonomy' Conclusion: Imperial Shadows