French colonial empire

Colonial Super Powers: From its birth in early 15th century to its decline in dominance by the 20th century, Colonial Super Powers fueled/sustained empires across oceans. Territories such as Portugal, France, Spain and Great Britain fought incessantly at times for various countries and islands across the world. The largest of all, the Superpowers during that Era, was Great Britain; considered as the Giant Empires with the largest number of colonized countries under its control. These Countries gained

Studies of Colonialism and Post-Colonionalism French decolonization: Conflict in Algeria Burianchello Content: Introduction.........................................................................................................3 The emergence of the French colonies...............................................................3 The emergence of the French colonies in the territory of Algeria......................4 The system of colonial rule in Algeria.............................

institution of colonial governance differed between the different empires. The French ruled their colonies with French administrators. France’s use of direct rule was used to enforce submission of their African subjects. France did not take into consideration any traditional concepts previously held in their colonies and appointed chiefs whom they believed would be loyal to France. France had direct rule over their colonies, passing and enforcing laws to benefit the French empire. The British used

The colonialism of Vietnam by the French lasted for approximately six decades. In the late of 1880s, the French had the control of the Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, commonly known as the French Indochina (Indochine Francais) (Mason 7). As such, Indochina was able to assume the status of being the lucrative colonial possessions of the French. It became the French empire, which spanned the western and northern Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific empires. The French formulated the civilizing mission as

about politics and the modern world, the forcing of the French culture, division between religions, and the external French motivations were overall not beneficial.The Maghrib is a section of North Africa that includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and sometimes parts of Libya. Specifically, Algeria was very important to this region as well as the French who tried to colonize and modernize this region. Along with Tunisia, whose impacts from the French are shown through the travels and experiences of Khayr

At the end of the Second World War, France had to leave its Middle Eastern and Asian colonies. The promotion of nationalism and anti-colonialism in the empire and the loss of imperial tenacity in France led to its withdrawal from most of its colonies. Adding to that, France was one of the Allied Powers, and the "The Atlantic Charter" that was produced in 1941 stipulated that the Allied powers needed to achieve certain goals if they won Second World War, and one was that all people and nations had

Experience Virtually everything that has gone wrong in Africa since the advent of independence has been blamed on the legacies of colonialism. Is that fair? Virtually all colonial powers had “colonial missions.” What were these missions and why were they apparently such a disaster? Did any good come out of the African “colonial experience”? Introduction Colonization of Africa by European countries was a monumental milestone in ­ the development of Africa. The Africans consider the impact of

Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia. Ann Laura Stoler & Race and the Education of Desire, Fauoult’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Ann Laura Stoler Introduction We will be presenting two essays by Ann Laura Stoler. The first essay, “Race and the Education of Desire”, Foucault’s history of sexuality discusses class, race and desire in terms of family and state regulations which are identified as the moral [bourgeois] code in the colonial context of Indochina

They enjoyed a fixed rent, one that was far less than the amount of labour expected by French peasants, security of tenure, better housing and relatively large, fertile plots which provided a nourishing diet for himself and the family, rarely experiencing famine . This widespread availability of land and shortage of work may have contributed

IV.The Impact on the British The impact of the French and Indian War on the British government was a positive move toward the dominance of Europe after the defeat of the French in terms of the colonization of North America. During this time, the British had incurred a massive military debt, which had to be paid over the long-term. To ensure that the British government did not take full responsibility for the debt, the British colonists were expected to pay back the debt burden through extremely