French colonial empire and the Popular Front : hope and disillusion

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French colonial empire and the Popular Front : hope and disillusion

edited by Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1999

  • : uk
  • : us : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-256) and index

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In revisiting the Popular Front some sixty years on, this book explores the link between metropolitan France and the empire at a defining moment in their history. One of the most significant events of the twentieth century is the end of empire, yet the importance of the empire in shaping contemporary France has traditionally been ignored by historians. By extending our perspective to empire, this book widens our understanding of the Popular Front experience and shows that it represents an important watershed in French history, marking the beginning of an irreversible process of reform that was ultimately to lead to decolonisation and the end of empire.

Table of Contents

  • Abbreviations Glossary Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THEORY AND BACKGROUND The Politics of Failure: Historicizing Popular Front Colonial Policy in French West Africa
  • G.Wilder Reforming Reformatory Technologies: the Example of New Caledonia
  • D.LaCoss The Africanist International and the Popular Front
  • J.Hargreaves The Popular Front and Internationalism: The Tunisian Case in Comparative Perspective
  • A.Col Protectorate, Association, Reformism: the Roots of the Popular Front's Republican Policy in Indochina
  • G.de Gant Reformism and the French 'Official Mind': the 1944 Brazzaville Conference and the Legacy of the Popular Front
  • M.Shipway PART II: DIVERSITY OF OUTCOMES The Popular Front and the Colonial Question, French West Africa: an Example of Reformist Colonialism
  • C.Coquery-Vidrovitch Women, Children and the Popular Front's Missions of Enquiry in French West Africa
  • G.Lydon Did the Popular Front have any Significant Impact in Guin
  • M.Brot Socialism in the Colonies: Cameroon under the Popular Front
  • J.Koufan Algeria: the Popular Front and the Blum-Viollette Plan, 1936-7
  • F.Tostain The Popular Front's Colonial Policies in Indochina: Reassessing the Popular Front's 'Colonisation Altruiste'
  • P.Norindr Bibliography Index List of Figures

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