Author : Raymond Betts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349279331
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis France and Decolonisation by : Raymond Betts
Download or read book France and Decolonisation written by Raymond Betts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1914 France had amassed over ten million square kilometres, and 60 million people including the colonies of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, the colony in S.E. Asia known as Indochina and a vast block of West Africa. This study gives the undergraduate student a factual geographical and historical background to the establishment of the early twentieth century French colonial empire. The author describes in detail the physical struggles between the colonies and their rules and the subsequent demise of the Empire.