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French colonial empires information - Search.com (2598 words) |
 | Early French attempts to found colonies in Brazil, in 1555 at Rio de Janeiro (the so-called France Antarctique) and in 1612 at São LuÃs (the so-called France Équinoxiale), and in Florida were unsuccessful, due to Portuguese and Spanish vigilance and prevention. |
| Colonies were established in India in Chandernagore in Bengal (1673) and Pondicherry in the Southeast (1674), and later at Yanam (1723), Mahe (1725), and Karikal (1739) (see French India). |
| The French colonial empire began to fall apart during the Second World War, when various parts of their empire were occupied by foreign powers (Japan in Indochina, Britain in Syria, Lebanon, and Madagascar, the US and Britain in Morocco and Algeria, and Germany in Tunisia). |
| Colonialism in Question: Introduction (12502 words) |
| Earlier, when colonialism was an object of mobilization, scholars and intellectuals were most captivated by the drama of liberation movements and the possibilities of "modernization" and "development" for people whom colonialism and racism had excluded from the march of progress. |
| The Haitian Revolution in the French Empire, the combination of slave revolts and antislavery mobilization in the British Empire, and the tensions between creole elites and peasants and slaves in the era of revolution in Spanish America all point to the possibility that politics in metropoles could not be neatly segregated from colonies. |
| Empires have a large place in history, but the exercise of power across territorial lines also took other forms and can be described in other words: hegemony as used by international relations theorists, the gunboat diplomacy that was part of American foreign policy, or the "imperialism of free trade" of nineteenth-century Britain. |
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