British And French Colonialism In Africa Asia And The Middle East

Author : James R. Fichter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319979647
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East written by James R. Fichter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often frères ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French colonial empires influenced each other. Chapters in the volume consider the two empires' connections in North, West and Central Africa, as well as their entanglement at sea in the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf and South China Sea. Also analysed are their mutual engagement with Islam in both the Hajj and various religiously inflected colonial revolts, their mutually-informed systems of administration in the New Hebrides and generally, and the interconnected ways the two empires fought World War II and decolonization. By uniting historians of France and her colonies with historians of Britain and her colonies, this volume speaks to a broad international and imperial history audience.

Author : Sluglett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415406635
Total Pages : 1600 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonialism in the Middle East 1798-1958 written by Sluglett and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the period between the mid-nineteenth century and the outbreak of the First World War, much of what is now called the Middle East, most of North Africa, and much of Central Asia, came under different forms of colonial rule, and most of those parts of the area which were not formally colonised were subject to the pressures of varying degrees of informal empire', on the part of Britain, France, Italy and Russia. In addition, with the exception of Morocco, the entire region either had been, or still was, nominally part of the Ottoman or Qajar empires. These two geopolitical units had been in existence, in the case of the Ottomans, since the late thirteenth century, and in the case of the Qajars, since 1779, and were to come to an end in 1924 and 1925 respectively. In the aftermath of the First Word War, a form of colonialism of a rather different kind, and ultimately of state creation, came into being in the Levant' after the defeat of the Ottomans by Britain and France. The former Arab Ottoman provinces were assigned to Britain and France as mandates from the newly created League of Nations, Britain taking responsibility for Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan, and France taking responsibility for Lebanon and Syria. For some time, the practice of colonialism, its various different manifestations in different parts of the world, independence, nationalist and anti-colonial movements, the process of decolonisation and the colonial legacy' - the effect that the practice has had on the post-colonial' or successor states - have been topics of keen academic interest and inquiry, as well as the subjects of university courses. For example, a number of US universities teach courses on British and French colonialism in the Middle East c. 1798-1971', and more general World History courses on the process of decolonisation. As far as the Middle East and North Africa are concerned, a wealth of literature has been produced on colonialism (and nationalism, in some sense the reverse side of the coin), and a collection of the best of this material would appeal to a wide range of students.

Author : John Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192802488
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African History: A Very Short Introduction written by John Parker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.

Author : Dane Keith Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199340498
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonization written by Dane Keith Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonization is the term commonly used to refer to this transition from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War II. This work demonstrates that this process involved considerable violence and instability.

Author : Andrew W.M. Smith
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1911307738
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa written by Andrew W.M. Smith and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power. Praise for Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa '…this ambitious volume represents a significant step forward for the field. As is often the case with rich and stimulating work, the volume gestures towards more themes than I have space to properly address in this review. These include shifting terrains of temporality, spatial Scales, and state sovereignty, which together raise important questions about the relationship between decolonization and globalization. By bringing all of these crucial issues into the same frame,Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa is sure to inspire new thought-provoking research.' - H-France vol. 17, issue 205

Author : Ewout Frankema
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494269
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c. 1850-1960 written by Ewout Frankema and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How colonial governments in Asia and Africa financed their activities and why fiscal systems varied across colonies reveals the nature and long-term effects of colonial rule.

Author : Zachary Lockman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521115876
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contending Visions of the Middle East written by Zachary Lockman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition considers how the 'global war on terror' has changed the way the West views the Islamic world.

Author : Robert Gildea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110715958X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empires of the Mind written by Robert Gildea and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.

Author : Robert Harms
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541699661
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land of Tears written by Robert Harms and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.

Author : Edward J. Gillin
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398102903
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entente Imperial written by Edward J. Gillin and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. This book shows how this is fundamentally wrong by exploring British collaboration with France between 1848 and 1914. Gillen redefines our understanding of Britain’s role in the world in the age of empire.