If you don’t already know it, I liked Aaron Freundschuh’s 2017 book about a famous 1887 murder trial, which has an argument about ‘imperial insecurity’, eg how French audiences feared that the violence of colonialism threatened the metropolitan order. (‘The Courtesan and the Gigolo’)

UG and PGT students always get a lot out of this one from Graham Jones on Houdin’s trip to Algeria in the 1850s www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've read it but haven't taught it. Good idea.