An unravelling of the histories of two closely linked political goals - assimilation and empire - which were in many ways interdependent over the past 500 years, this book examines the resilience of assimilative ideology across centuries continents, and empires.
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.
En partant de l'analyse de la conquête et de la colonisation de l'Algérie au XIXe siècle, permet de comprendre la nature des guerres qui se sont déroulées en Afrique du Nord et ailleurs, mais aussi de saisir la nature et le fonctionnement des institutions racistes et discriminat…
The author details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing a tradition of maritime interest in the Americas and West Africa dating back to the earliest years of the sixteenth-century, seemed destined to take a leading role in exploiting and settli…
"Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material from archives and research libraries in Canada, France, and the United States, Kenneth Banks details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing…
by Jennings, Eric Thomas, Cantier, Jacques
fromHistoire (Editions Odile Jacob)
