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.
Author(s): Martin Thomas
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 384
Front matter
Contents
List of maps and tables
General editor's introduction
Preface and acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Glossary of terms
Maps
Introduction: France’s inter-war empire: a framework for analysis
PART I: 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
PART II 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 France
PART III 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
Bibliography
Index
