Contributor
Fichter, James R. editor.
ImprintCham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Descriptionxiv, 353 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Note:Britain and France, Connected Empires / James R. Fichter -- Part I. Empire in Africa -- From Slaves to Gum: Colonial Trade and French-British Rivalry in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia / Cheikh Sène -- 'Our Anglo-Saxon Colleagues:' The Constraining Embrace of British Northern Nigeria / Barbara Cooper -- Part II. Empire and Islam -- Anglo-French Connections and Cooperation against 'Islamic' Resistance, 1914-1917 / John Slight -- Sacred Surveillance: Indian Muslims, Waqf, and the Evolution of State Surveillance in French Mandate Syria / James Casey -- Part III. Empire at Sea -- A Shared Sea: The Axes of French and British Imperialism in the Mediterranean, 1798-1914 / John Perry -- A Second 'Fashoda'? Britain, India and a French 'Threat' in Oman at the End of the Nineteenth Century / Guillemette Crouzet -- Imperial Interdependence on Indochina's Maritime Periphery: France and Coal in Ceylon, Singapore and Hong Kong, 1859-1895 / James R. Fichter -- French Kwang-Chow-Wan and British Hong Kong: Politics and Shipping, 1890s-1920s / Bert Becker -- Part IV. Empire and Administration -- Sharing Colonial Sovereignty? The Anglo-French Experience of the New Hebrides Condominium, 1880s-1930s / Hélène Blais -- British and French Colonial Statistics: Development by Hybridization from the Eighteenth to the mid-20th Centuries / Béatrice Touchelay -- Part V. Imperial Ends -- Britain and Free France in Africa, 1940-1943 / Eric T. Jennings -- The End of Empires and Some Linguistic Turns: British and French Language Policies in Inter- and Post-War Africa / Diana Lemberg.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often freres ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French colonial empires influenced each other. Chapters in the volume consider the two empires connections' in North, West and Central Africa, as well as their entanglement at sea in the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf and South China Sea. Also analysed are their mutual engagement with Islam in both the Hajj and various religiously inflected colonial revolts, their mutually-informed systems of administration in the New Hebrides and generally, and the interconnected ways the two empires fought World War II and decolonization. By uniting historians of France and her colonies with historians of Britain and her colonies, this volume speaks to a broad international and imperial history audience.
