The French empire between the wars: Imperialism, politics and society

by Martin Thomas

Overview

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 decolonization 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526118691
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2017
Series:	Studies in Imperialism , #56
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

John MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Introduction: France's inter-war empire: A framework for analysis * The Setting: Politics and colonial administration after the First World War * Consolidation and expansion: the French empire after the First World War * Colonial planning and administrative practice * An empire for the masses? Economy, colonial society and popular imperialism * The empire and the French economy: Complementarity or divorce? * Colonial economic demands and urban development in North Africa * Women and colonialism and colonial education * 'Thinking imperially'? Popular imperialism in inter-war France * An empire in trouble: Opposition, revolt and war * An empire in revolt? The Rif war, the Syrian rebellion, Yen Bay and the Kongo Wara * Anti-colonial nationalism: The examples of Algeria and Tunisia * Reform frustrated: the Popular Front experiment and the French empire * Approaching war: The empire and international crisis in the 1930s * Conclusion: Prelude to decolonisation? The inter-war empire revisited
Introduction: France's inter-war empire: A framework for analysis * The Setting: Politics and colonial administration after the First World War * Consolidation and expansion: the French empire after the First World War * Colonial planning and administrative practice * An empire for the masses? Economy, colonial society and popular imperialism * The empire and the French economy: Complementarity or divorce? * Colonial economic demands and urban development in North Africa * Women and colonialism and colonial education * 'Thinking imperially'? Popular imperialism ininter-war France * An empire in trouble: Opposition, revolt and war * An empire in revolt? The Rif war, the Syrian rebellion, Yen Bay and the Kongo Wara * Anti-colonial nationalism: The examples of Algeria and Tunisia * Reform frustrated: the Popular Front experiment and the French empire * Approaching war: The empire and international crisis in the 1930s * Conclusion: Prelude to decolonisation? The inter-war empire revisited