British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: Connected Empires across the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)

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 frères 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Britain and France, Connected Empires (James R. Fichter)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 From Slaves to Gum: Colonial Trade and French-British Rivalry in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia (Cheikh Sène)....Pages 19-33 “Our Anglo-Saxon Colleagues”: French Administration of Niger and the Constraining Embrace of British Northern Nigeria (Barbara M. Cooper)....Pages 35-64 Front Matter ....Pages 65-65 Anglo-French Connections and Cooperation against “Islamic” Resistance, 1914–1917 (John Slight)....Pages 67-88 Sacred Surveillance: Indian Muslims, Waqf, and the Evolution of State Power in French Mandate Syria (James Casey)....Pages 89-110 Front Matter ....Pages 111-111 A Shared Sea: The Axes of French and British Imperialism in the Mediterranean, 1798–1914 (John Perry)....Pages 113-130 A Second “Fashoda”? Britain, India, and a French “Threat” in Oman at the End of the Nineteenth Century (Guillemette Crouzet)....Pages 131-150 Imperial Interdependence on Indochina’s Maritime Periphery: France and Coal in Ceylon, Singapore, and Hong Kong, 1859–1895 (James R. Fichter)....Pages 151-179 French Kwang-Chow-Wan and British Hong Kong: Politics and Shipping, 1890s–1920s (Bert Becker)....Pages 181-221 Front Matter ....Pages 223-223 Sharing Colonial Sovereignty? The Anglo-French Experience of the New Hebrides Condominium, 1880s–1930s (Hélène Blais)....Pages 225-247 British and French Colonial Statistics: Development by Hybridization from the Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries (Béatrice Touchelay)....Pages 249-274 Front Matter ....Pages 275-275 Britain and Free France in Africa, 1940–1943 (Eric T. Jennings)....Pages 277-296 The End of Empires and Some Linguistic Turns: British and French Language Policies in Inter- and Postwar Africa (Diana Lemberg)....Pages 297-321 Back Matter ....Pages 323-353 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 frères 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.-- Provided by publisher