Rachel Chin (University of Glasgow)

War of Words

Britain, France and Discourses of Empire During the Second World War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

War of Words analyses Franco-British relations during the Second World War through the lens of rhetoric and empire. Through a comparative and transnational perspective, Rachel Chin shows how conflicts over French colonial territory between 1940 and 1945 were central to British, Vichy and Free French wartime policy-making.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781009181013
• ISBN-10: 1009181017
• Artikelnr.: 63562009

Autorenporträt

Rachel Chin is Postdoctoral Research Associate on an AHRC-funded research project at the University of Glasgow and a member of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. From the Dunkirk evacuations to the Franco-German armistice: Renegotiating the Franco-British alliance
2. The real question at issue.: British policy and the French fleet
3. A necessary tragedy? The British bombardments of the French fleet at Mers El-Kébir
4. Vichy, the free French and the battle for imperial influence at Dakar in September 1940
5. Promises of independence: Operation exporter and the struggle for the Levant
6. Operation torch: American influence and the battle for French North Africa
7. Independence on French terms: The 1943 Lebanese parliamentary crisis
8. Holding on to empire: The French bombardment of Damascus, May 1945
9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.