France And The South Pacific Since 1940

Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824815585
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France and the South Pacific since 1940 written by Robert Aldrich and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted independence movements and nuclear-testing. This book looks at the realities of the French territories in Oceania, and the former Franco-British condominium of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), as well as changing French policy in the region. This study is based on published sources as well as archival material and interviews, and is a sequel to the highly praised The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940.

Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349090840
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940 written by Robert Aldrich and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of France's presence in the South Pacific after the takeover of Tahiti. It places the South Pacific in the context of overall French expansion and current theories of colonialism and imperialism and evaluates the French impact on Oceania.

Author : Stephen Henningham
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824813055
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France and the South Pacific written by Stephen Henningham and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Lawrey
Publisher : Canberra : Journal of Pacific History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cross of Lorraine in the South Pacific written by John Lawrey and published by Canberra : Journal of Pacific History. This book was released on 1982 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Denise Fisher
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1922144959
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France in the South Pacific written by Denise Fisher and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France is a Pacific power, with three territories, a military presence, and extensive investments. Once seen by many as a colonial interloper in the South Pacific, by the early 2000s, after it ended nuclear testing in French Polynesia and negotiated transitional Accords responding to independence demands in New Caledonia, France seems to have become generally accepted as a regional partner, even if its efforts concentrate on its own territories rather than the independent island states. But Frances future in the region has yet to be secured. By 2014 it is to have handed over a set of agreed autonomies to the New Caledonian government, before an independence referendum process begins. Past experience suggests that a final resolution of the status of New Caledonia will be divisive and could lead once again to violent confrontations. In French Polynesia, calls continue for independence and for treatment under UN decolonisation procedures, which France opposes. Other island leaders are watching, so far putting faith in the Noumea Accord, but wary of the final stages. The issues and possible solutions are more complex than the French Pacific island population of 515,000 would suggest. Combining historical background with political and economic analysis, this comprehensive study offers vital insight into the intricate history -- and problematic future -- of several of Australias key neighbours in the Pacific and to the priorities and options of the European country that still rules them. It is aimed at policy-makers, scholars, journalists, businesspeople, and others who want to familiarise themselves with the issues as Frances role in the region is redefined in the years to come.

Author : Nancy J. Pollock
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Polynesia written by Nancy J. Pollock and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1988 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674258568
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When France Fell written by Michael S. Neiberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy governmentÑa fateful decision that nearly destroyed the AngloÐAmerican alliance. According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the Òmost shocking single eventÓ of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940. Michael Neiberg offers a dramatic history of the American responseÑa policy marked by panic and moral ineptitude, which placed the United States in league with fascism and nearly ruined the alliance with Britain. The successful Nazi invasion of France destabilized American plannersÕ strategic assumptions. At home, the result was huge increases in defense spending, the advent of peacetime military conscription, and domestic spying to weed out potential fifth columnists. Abroad, the United States decided to work with Vichy France despite its pro-Nazi tendencies. The USÐVichy partnership, intended to buy time and temper the flames of war in Europe, severely strained AngloÐAmerican relations. American leaders naively believed that they could woo men like Philippe PŽtain, preventing France from becoming a formal German ally. The British, however, understood that Vichy was subservient to Nazi Germany and instead supported resistance figures such as Charles de Gaulle. After the war, the choice to back Vichy tainted USÐFrench relations for decades. Our collective memory of World War II as a period of American strength overlooks the desperation and faulty decision making that drove US policy from 1940 to 1943. Tracing the key diplomatic and strategic moves of these formative years, When France Fell gives us a more nuanced and complete understanding of the war and of the global position the United States would occupy afterward.

Author : R. Aldrich
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230005527
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vestiges of Colonial Empire in France written by R. Aldrich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-12-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive study of 'sites of memory' in France connected to the history of French imperialism and colonialism, and the ways that the French have remembered or forgotten their colonial past. Through a study of monuments, memorials, museum collections and other 'sites of memory' in France connected with France's overseas empire this book analyzes the way in which French authorities marked the Paris and provincial landscapes with these reminders of France's colonial 'mission' during the period of imperial expansion, and the fate of these sites in the post-colonial period and what that evolution reveals about French memory and amnesia of the colonial epoch.

Author : Brij Vilash Lal (historien).)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Islands History written by Brij Vilash Lal (historien).) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: