Science and French Colonial Policy. Creation of the ORSTOM: From the Popular Front to the Liberaton via Vichy, 1936–1943

1997 ◽  
pp. 129-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Bonneuil ◽  
Patrick Petitjean
Keyword(s):  
Popular Front ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
French Colonial

Forging French Colonial Policy in the Pacific

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ellen. Birkett
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Policy ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
French Colonial

scholarly journals The Seigniorial System in Canada. A Study in French Colonial Policy

1907 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
William Bennett Munro
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Policy ◽  
French Colonial

IMPERIAL MISE EN VALEUR AND MISE EN SCÈNE: RECENT WORKS ON FRENCH COLONIALISM

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 917-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT ALDRICH
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
French Language ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
National History ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Imperial Governance ◽  
Art And Architecture

This review looks at English- and French-language books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French colonial history published since 1995. It considers issues of ideology, imperial governance, the mise en valeur (development and ‘improvement’) of colonies (for instance, in health and education policy), the representation of empire in art and architecture, and decolonization. Special attention is paid to Indochina. Recent works have stressed the evolving nature of colonial policy and its adaptability to local circumstances. The review notes a certain divide between works emphasizing the discursive aspect of empire, and more ‘materialist’ treatments, but remarks on a general renewal of interest in colonial history. Contemporary scholars have also given colonial history a more prominent position in French national history than it previously held.

History of French Colonial Policy. 1870-1925

1930 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
G. R. C. ◽  
Stephen H. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Policy ◽  
History Of ◽  
French Colonial

FRENCH EMPIRE ELITES AND THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC OBLIGATION IN THE INTERWAR YEARS

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 989-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTIN THOMAS
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
French Empire ◽  
The Third ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Cultural Terms

ABSTRACTThis article considers the changing ways in which French political elites understood imperial obligation in the interwar years. It suggests that the economics of imperial rule and disputes over what could and should be done to develop colonial economies provide the key to understanding both the failure of interwar colonial reforms and the irreversible decline in France's grip over its colonies. In making this case, the article investigates four related colonial policy debates, all variously linked to changing conceptualizations of economic obligation among France's law-makers. The first concerns Albert Sarraut's 1921 empire development plan. The second reviews discussions over the respective obligations of the state and private financiers in regenerating colonial economies during the depression years of the early 1930s. The third debate reassesses policymakers' disputes over colonial industrialization. Finally, the article revisits the apparent failure of the investigative studies of economic and labour reforms conceived by the left-leaning Popular Front in 1936–8. The point is to highlight the extent to which senior political figures clashed over concepts of ‘colonial obligation’ viewed less in the cultural terms of ‘civilizing mission’ than in the material sense of economic outlay.

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