The current conflict between French President Jacques Chirac and the Bush administration over war plans for Iraq has enabled the French government to posture temporarily on the world stage as a force ...
The series of coups in Africa in nations of the former French colonial empire is unfolding amid a growing radicalization among workers and youth on the continent. After a decade of relentless NATO-led ...
On May 15th, the French government declared a state of emergency in the country’s semi-autonomous overseas territory of New Caledonia, which lies 1400 kilometers east of Australia (17,000 kilometers ...
To the untrained eye, the remains of a former French establishment look puny on the map of modern India: a bit of land along the rim of the Bay of Bengal, like Chandannagar in Bengal and Puducherry on ...
The French have a history of imperial grandeur that, although it was occasionally punctured by the English and the Germans, made them feel great, particularly when ruling non-Europeans in IndoChina, ...
To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European imperial powers preferred to control certain colonial territories by indirect means: they sought to co-opt local economic and cultural elites ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results