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The Doctor Who Would Be King
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Product Details
Author:
Guillaume Lachenal, Cheryl Smeall
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
312
Publisher:
Duke University Press (April 15, 2022)
Imprint:
Duke University Press
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9781478017868
ISBN-10:
1478017864
Weight:
14.72oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
File:
TWO RIVERS-PERSEUS-Metadata_Only_Perseus_Distribution_Customer_Group_Metadata_20251126163256-20251126.xml
Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$28.95
Country of Origin:
United States
Series:
Theory in Forms
Case Pack:
40
As low as:
$22.29
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
A
Pub Discount:
46
Overview
In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. David—whom locals called “emperor”—dreamed of establishing a medical utopia. Through unchecked power, he imagined realizing the colonialist fantasy of emancipating colonized subjects from misery, ignorance, and sickness. Drawing on archives, oral histories, and ethnographic fieldwork, Lachenal traces Dr. David’s earlier attempts at a similar project on a Polynesian island and the ongoing legacies of his failed experiment in Cameroon. Lachenal does not merely recount a Conradian tale of imperial hubris, he brings the past into the present, exploring the memories and remains of Dr. David’s rule to reveal a global history of violence, desire, and failure in which hope for the future gets lost in the tragic comedy of power.
