British and French colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East : connected empires across the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries /: connected empires across the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James R. Fichter.
• Editors: Fichter, James R
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction. Britain and France, Connected Empires.- Part I: Empire in Africa.- Chapter 2. 'From Slaves to Gum: Colonial Trade and French-British Rivalry in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia.' Cheikh Sène.- Chapter 3. ''Our Anglo-Saxon Colleagues:' The Constraining Embrace of British Northern Nigeria." Barbara Cooper.- Part II: Empire and Islam.- Chapter 4. 'Anglo-French Connections and Cooperation against 'Islamic' Resistance, 1914-1917' John Slight.- Chapter 5. 'Sacred Surveillance: Indian Muslims, Syrian Waqf, and the Evolution of State Surveillance in Syria under the French Mandate.' James Casey.- Part III: Empire at Sea.- Chapter 6. 'A Shared Sea: The Axes of French and British Imperialism in the Mediterranean, 1798-1914'.- Chapter 7. 'A Second 'Fashoda?': Britain, India and a French 'Threat' in Oman at the End of the Nineteenth Century' Guillemette Crouzet.- Chapter 8. 'Imperial Interdependence on Indochina's Maritime Periphery: France and Coal in Ceylon, Singapore and Hong Kong, 1859-1895' James R. Fichter.- Chapter 9. 'French Kwang-Chow-Wan and British Hong Kong: Politics and Shipping, 1890s-1920s' Bert Becker.- Part IV: Empire and Administration.- Chapter 10. 'Sharing Colonial Sovereignty? The Anglo-French Experience of the New Hebrides Condominium, 1880s-1930s' Hélène Blais.- Chapter 11. 'British and French Colonial Statistics: Development by Hybridization from the Eighteenth to the mid-20th Centuries'Béatrice Touchelay.- Part V: Imperial Ends.- Chapter 12. 'Britain and Free France in Africa, 1940-1943'.- Chapter 13. 'The End of Empires and Some Linguistic Turns: British and French Language Policies in Inter- and Post-War Africa' Diana Lemberg.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 325.341; Imperialism; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century; France -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century; France -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century; France -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Relations -- France; France -- Relations -- Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319979649
• Related ISBNs: 9783319979632
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