French Colonial Empire And The Popular Front

Author : Tony Chafer,Amanda Sackur
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 0333729730

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French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front by Tony Chafer,Amanda Sackur Pdf

"The central interest of this book is that it shifts the focus from the metropole to empire. In so doing, it shows that the history of the former cannot be divorced from the latter. At the same time, by extending our perspective to empire, it widens our understanding of the Popular Front experience and demonstrates how the 1936-8 period represents an important turning-point in French history, marking the beginning of an irreversible process of reform that was ultimately to lead to decolonisation and the end of empire. This book will be essential reading for historians of twentieth-century France, as well as those with an interest in the history of empire, colonialism, the colonial legacy and postcolonialism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0719065186

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The French Empire Between the Wars by Martin Thomas Pdf

The French empire between the wars is the first study of the French colonial empire at its height in the twenty years following the First World War. Based on extensive archival research, it addresses current debates about French methods of rule and their impact on colonial peoples, the origins of decolonisation, and the role of popular imperialism in French society and culture. By considering the distinctiveness of the inter-war years as a discrete period of colonial change, this book addresses several larger issues, such as tracing the origins of decolonisation in the rise of colonial nationalism, and a re-assessment of the impact of inter-war colonial rebellions in Africa, Syria and Indochina. The book also connects French theories of colonial governance to the lived experience of colonial rule in a period scarred by war and economic dislocation. The author analyses colonial decision-making in Paris and the renewed threat of global war, as well as colonial economic conditions and forms of discrimination in the empire to illustrate the process of French imperial decline.

Author : S. Kalman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137307095

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French Colonial Fascism by S. Kalman Pdf

This study investigates the various extreme-rightist leagues in Algeria, with particular attention to certain key themes, among them the rabid xenophobia directed at the Jewish population and local Muslims. It demonstrates that fascism helped to construct a racial hierarchy to preserve European hegemony and a pool of cheap labor.

Author : M. Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230287426

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The French North African Crisis by M. Thomas Pdf

The French North African Crisis analyses the postwar breakdown in French imperial rule in North West Africa, concentrating primarily upon the Algerian war of independence. The book highlights the human tragedy involved and the divisive consequences within French metropolitan politics of intractable colonial conflict. It further examines how far the protracted crisis of colonial control in North Africa shaped French foreign and security policy and this impacted upon Anglo-French relations, the western alliance and the wider process of decolonization.

Author : Herman Lebovics
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501731877

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True France by Herman Lebovics Pdf

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Author : Tyler Stovall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000531640

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Transnational France by Tyler Stovall Pdf

Now in its second edition, Tyler Stovall’s Transnational France takes a transnational approach to the history of modern France that draws the reader into a key aspect of France’s political culture: universalism. Beginning with the French Revolution and its aftermath, Stovall traces French history right up to the present day and examines France’s relations with three other areas of the world: Europe, the United States, and France’s colonial empire. The book shines a light onto both French identity and the history of the world more broadly, which allows the reader to engage with French history in a much wider context. This new edition features an additional chapter on France in the twenty-first century that offers an analysis of current events and issues as seen through historical perspective. Issues addressed include anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the gilets jaunes, as well as the impact of Brexit, the maturation of the National Front under Marine LePen, and the administration of Emmanuel Macron. Giving a global view of France’s history, this is the perfect volume for students of modern France and French history courses.

Author : Tony Chafer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845206307

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The End of Empire in French West Africa by Tony Chafer Pdf

In an effort to restore its world-power status after the humiliation of defeat and occupation, France was eager to maintain its overseas empire at the end of the Second World War. Yet just fifteen years later France had decolonized, and by 1960 only a few small island territories remained under French control.The process of decolonization in Indochina and Algeria has been widely studied, but much less has been written about decolonization in France's largest colony, French West Africa. Here, the French approach was regarded as exemplary -- that is, a smooth transition successfully managed by well intentioned French politicians and enlightened African leaders. Overturning this received wisdom, Chafer argues that the rapid unfurling of events after the Second World War was a complex , piecemeal and unpredictable process, resulting in a 'successful decolonization' that was achieved largely by accident. At independence, the winners assumed the reins of political power, while the losers were often repressed, imprisoned or silenced.This important book challenges the traditional dichotomy between 'imperial' and 'colonial' history and will be of interest to students of imperial and French history, politics and international relations, development and post-colonial studies.

Author : Ruth Ginio
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803253803

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French Colonialism Unmasked by Ruth Ginio Pdf

Before the Vichy regime, there was ostensibly only one France and one form of colonialism for French West Africa (FWA). World War II and the division of France into two ideological camps, each asking for legitimacy from the colonized, opened for Africans numerous unprecedented options. French Colonialism Unmasked analyzes three dramatic years in the history of FWA, from 1940 to 1943, in which the Vichy regime tried to impose the ideology of the National Revolution in the region. Ruth Ginio shows how this was a watershed period in the history of the region by providing an in-depth examination of the Vichy colonial visions and practices in fwa. She describes the intriguing encounters between the colonial regime and African society along with the responses of different sectors in the African population to the Vichy policy. Although French Colonialism Unmasked focuses on one region within the French Empire, it has relevance to French colonial history in general by providing one of the missing pieces in research on Vichy colonialism. Ruth Ginio is a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of articles in International Journal of African Historical Studies, Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Cahiers d'etudes africaines, and several other journals.

Author : Barnett Singer,John W. Langdon
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299199045

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Cultured Force by Barnett Singer,John W. Langdon Pdf

Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era through the Fifth Republic. They ask us to rethink and reevaluate, pulling away from the usual shoal of simplistic condemnation. In a series of finely-etched biographical studies, and with much detail on both imperial culture and wars (including World War I and II), they offer a balanced, deep, strong portrait of key makers and defenders of the French Empire, one that will surely stimulate much historical work in the field.

Author : James Eskridge Genova
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820469416

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Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-ruled West Africa, 1914-1956 by James Eskridge Genova Pdf

Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956 offers an innovative and provocative reassessment of the history and legacies of French colonial rule in West Africa between the First World War and the late 1950s. Making critical use of postcolonial and cultural theory, James E. Genova argues that the colonizers and the colonized were locked in a struggle for authority increasingly structured by competing notions of what it meant to be French or African. This book breaks new ground by demonstrating the centrality of the cultural question in the imperial encounters between France and West Africa. It maps the emergence of the French-educated elite as a social class in French West Africa as a window into the complex relationship between agency and structural context in the making of history. A disjunction developed between decolonization and liberation in the colonial liaison of France and West Africa that left colonizers and colonized trapped in a neocolonial cultural framework actualizing Frantz Fanon's deepest fears about the postcolony.

Author : Leonard V. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108799159

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French Colonialism by Leonard V. Smith Pdf

France had the second largest empire in the world after Britain, but one with very different origins and purposes. Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes. Beginning in the early modern period, a vast mercantile empire based on furs and fish in the New World and sugar cultivated by the enslaved in the Caribbean rose and fell. At intervals thereafter, the French seemed to have an empire simply as an attribute of a Great Power, generally in competition with Britain. Relatively few French people ever moved to the empire, even to the settler colony of Algeria. Under the Third Republic, the French construed a "civilizing mission" melding selectively applied principles of democracy and colonial capitalism. Two world wars and two anticolonial wars broke French imperial power as it had previously existed, yet numberless traces of the French empire lived on, both in the former colonies and in today's French Republic. This narrative history recounts the unique course of the French empire, questioning how it made sense to the people who ruled it, lived under it, and fought against it.

Author : Frederick Quinn
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042406408

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The French Overseas Empire by Frederick Quinn Pdf

For more than five centuries France has been both a European and a global power. French explorers, traders, settlers, soldiers, and missionaries journeyed to the world's farthest reaches establishing colonies, bringing millions of people under French influence and claiming vast expanses of forests, jungles, deserts, and rich mineral and maritime resources. Through continued wars with rival powers, including Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, and Germany, France lost large portions of its empire and gained others. This is a story of colorful personalities and dramatic events: Cartier's exploration of Canada, Richelieu's and Colbert's global trading companies, Champlain the colonizer, the French presence in Louisiana, the vast but short-lived French empire in India, the nefarious slave trade, and France's defeat in its prosperous Caribbean colony, St. Domingue. Century-long conflict with some of its most valued possessions, such as Vietnam and Algeria, further hastened the empire's demise after World War II.

Author : Joseph Edwin Gable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : France
ISBN : WISC:89105672638

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The Popular Front and the Colonial Question by Joseph Edwin Gable Pdf

Author : Raymond F. Betts
Publisher : New York : AMS Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005344135

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Assimilation and Association in French Colonial Theory, 1890-1914 by Raymond F. Betts Pdf

Author : Pascal Blanchard,Sandrine Lemaire,Nicolas Bancel,Dominic Thomas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253010537

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Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution by Pascal Blanchard,Sandrine Lemaire,Nicolas Bancel,Dominic Thomas Pdf

This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities, and national identity.