Guadeloupe, an enterprise island, from the 1930s to the 1960s : Entrepreneurs, territory, state

• Main Author: Touchelay, Marie-Christine
• Other Authors: Centre de recherche pluridisciplinaire en Lettres, Langues, Sciences Humaines et des Sociétés (Pléiade), Université Paris 13 (UP13), Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Danièle Fraboulet
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: Sugar industry; Entrepreneurs; Enterprise island; Public space; Industrie sucrière; Île entreprise; Espace public; [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; Enterprise Island
• Online Access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01772298; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01772298/document; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01772298/file/ederasme_th_2017_touchelay.pdf

The objective of this study is to demonstrate the importance of sugar companies in Guadeloupe's history. Established and then maintained by France, they delay the development of a public space as well as the apprenticeship in the concept of public service, thus inviting to qualify this territor...