Britain's and France's Shared Colonial Policies

ISBN-13: 9783836469166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 60 str.

Jennifer Elizabeth Jenkins

Opis

This book examines Frances choice in the early1900s to replace its official colonial policy ofassimilation with one of association. Why did Franceexchange an ideology rooted both in its Latinheritage and in its revolutionary past with oneespoused by its colonial rival, Great Britain? Thisbook attempts to answer that question by a case studyin West Africa: it demonstrates how the Frenchcolony of Sénégal came to be administered like aBritish colony, in particular the Gambia. In doingso, it shows that the implementation of "indirectrule" in 1854 and the creation of a protectorate in1890 by French colonial administrators in Sénégalcontributed to the National Assemblys decisions in1895 and 1897 to officially adopt decentralization asFrances new colonial policy.

O autorze

Obtained Ph.D. in European history at Brandeis University and
M.A. in modern African and Middle Eastern histories at the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Other geographical
specialties are world history and U.S. history (20th century).
Topical specialties are politics, pre-colonialism, colonialism,
post-colonialism, immigration, civil rights.