The End Of Empire In French West Africa

Author : Tony Chafer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Andrew W.M. Smith,Chris Jeppesen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911307730

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Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa by Andrew W.M. Smith,Chris Jeppesen Pdf

Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power. Praise for Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa '…this ambitious volume represents a significant step forward for the field. As is often the case with rich and stimulating work, the volume gestures towards more themes than I have space to properly address in this review. These include shifting terrains of temporality, spatial Scales, and state sovereignty, which together raise important questions about the relationship between decolonization and globalization. By bringing all of these crucial issues into the same frame,Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa is sure to inspire new thought-provoking research.' - H-France vol. 17, issue 205

Author : Owen White
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191589898

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Children of the French Empire by Owen White Pdf

This book vividly recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the nineteenth century, until independence in 1960. Set within the context of the history of miscegenation in colonial French West Africa, the study focuses upon the lives and identities of the resulting mixed-race or métis population, and their struggle to overcome the handicaps they faced in a racially divided society. Owen White has drawn a valuable evaluation of the impact and importance of French racial theories, and offers a critical discussion of colonial policies in such areas as citizenship and education, providing original insights into problems of identity in colonial society.

Author : William B. Cohen
Publisher : [Stanford, Calif.] : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015000511320

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Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa by William B. Cohen Pdf

Author : Ruth Ginio
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400850280

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Citizenship between Empire and Nation by Frederick Cooper Pdf

A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in Africa As the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a citizen and different too. Citizenship between Empire and Nation examines momentous changes in notions of citizenship, sovereignty, nation, state, and empire in a time of acute uncertainty about the future of a world that had earlier been divided into colonial empires. Frederick Cooper explains how African political leaders at the end of World War II strove to abolish the entrenched distinction between colonial "subject" and "citizen." They then used their new status to claim social, economic, and political equality with other French citizens, in the face of resistance from defenders of a colonial order. Africans balanced their quest for equality with a desire to express an African political personality. They hoped to combine a degree of autonomy with participation in a larger, Franco-African ensemble. French leaders, trying to hold on to a large French polity, debated how much autonomy and how much equality they could concede. Both sides looked to versions of federalism as alternatives to empire and the nation-state. The French government had to confront the high costs of an empire of citizens, while Africans could not agree with French leaders or among themselves on how to balance their contradictory imperatives. Cooper shows how both France and its former colonies backed into more "national" conceptions of the state than either had sought.

Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199698271

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Fight Or Flight by Martin Thomas Pdf

The story of the dramatic collapse of the British and French colonial empires in the aftermath of the Second World War - now told for the first time as part of one global process

Author : Ruth Ginio
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803253391

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The French Army and Its African Soldiers by Ruth Ginio Pdf

7 Adjusting to a New Reality: The Army and the Imminent Independence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
ISBN : OCLC:253007445

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Children of the French Empire by Anonim Pdf

This volume recreates the lives and identities of the children born of relationships between French men and African women in colonial French West Africa. It shows how colonial policies and attitudes influenced this population.

Author : Harry Gamble
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781496225979

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Contesting French West Africa by Harry Gamble Pdf

Harry Gamble examines the controversies of political and educational reform in French West Africa from the early to mid-twentieth century.

Author : Tony Chafer,Alexander Keese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1526122855

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Francophone Africa at Fifty by Tony Chafer,Alexander Keese Pdf

France's presence on the African continent has often been presented as 'cooperation' and part of French cultural policy by policy-makers in Paris and quite as often been denounced as 'the longest scandal of the republic' by French academics and African intellectuals. Between the last years of French colonialism and France's sustained interventions in former African colonies such as Chad or Côte d'Ivoire during the 2000s, the legacy of French colonialism has shaped the historical trajectory of more than a dozen countries and societies in Africa. The complexities of this story are now, for the first time, addressed in a comprehensive series of essays, based on new research by a group of specialists in French colonial history. The book addresses the needs of both academic specialists and those of students of history and neighbouring disciplines looking for structural analysis of key themes in France's and Africa's shared history.

Author : Lasse Heerten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107111806

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The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism by Lasse Heerten Pdf

A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.

Author : Alice L. Conklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0804740127

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A Mission to Civilize by Alice L. Conklin Pdf

This book addresses a central but often ignored question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: How did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent appeal of a “civilizing” ideology with distinct racist overtones? By focusing on a particular group of colonial officials in a specific setting—the governors general of French West Africa from 1895 to 1930—the author argues that the ideal of a special civilizing mission had a decisive impact on colonial policymaking and on the evolution of modern French republicanism generally. French ideas of civilization—simultaneously republican, racist, and modern—encouraged the governors general in the 1890’s to attack such “feudal” African institutions as aristocratic rule and slavery in ways that referred back to France’s own experience of revolutionary change. Ironically, local administrators in the 1920’s also invoked these same ideas to justify such reactionary policies as the reintroduction of forced labor, arguing that coercion, which inculcated a work ethic in the “lazy” African, legitimized his loss of freedom. By constantly invoking the ideas of “civilization,” colonial policy makers in Dakar and Paris managed to obscure the fundamental contradictions between “the rights of man” guaranteed in a republican democracy and the forcible acquisition of an empire that violates those rights. In probing the “republican” dimension of French colonization in West Africa, this book also sheds new light on the evolution of the Third Republic between 1895 and 1930. One of the author’s principal arguments is that the idea of a civilized mission underwent dramatic changes, due to ideological, political, and economic transformations occurring simultaneously in France and its colonies. For example, revolts in West Africa as well as a more conservative climate in the metropole after World War I produced in the governors general a new respect for “feudal” chiefs, whom the French once despised but now reinstated as a means of control. This discovery of an African “tradition” in turn reinforced a reassertion of traditional values in France as the Third Republic struggled to recapture the world it had “lost” at Verdun.

Author : Elizabeth A. Foster
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804786225

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Faith in Empire by Elizabeth A. Foster Pdf

Faith in Empire is an innovative exploration of French colonial rule in West Africa, conducted through the prism of religion and religious policy. Elizabeth Foster examines the relationships among French Catholic missionaries, colonial administrators, and Muslim, animist, and Christian Africans in colonial Senegal between 1880 and 1940. In doing so she illuminates the nature of the relationship between the French Third Republic and its colonies, reveals competing French visions of how to approach Africans, and demonstrates how disparate groups of French and African actors, many of whom were unconnected with the colonial state, shaped French colonial rule. Among other topics, the book provides historical perspective on current French controversies over the place of Islam in the Fifth Republic by exploring how Third Republic officials wrestled with whether to apply the legal separation of church and state to West African Muslims.

Author : John D. Hargreaves
Publisher : New York : Barnes & Noble Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081105343

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The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa by John D. Hargreaves Pdf