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.
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…
Histoire de la colonisation du monde et son exploitation par les Européens, du XVe au début du XIXe siècle, à travers des cartes et des graphiques. (Renaud-Bray).