William B Cohen

The French Encounter with Africans

White Response to Blacks, 1530-1880. Foreword by James D. Le Sueur

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Produktbeschreibung

Now a classic, The French Encounter with Africans is essential reading for anyone engaged in current discussions of European relations with non-Europeans and with issues of racism, ethnicity, identity, colonialism, and empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 155mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780253216502
• ISBN-10: 0253216508
• Artikelnr.: 21759451

Autorenporträt

William B. Cohen (1941¿2002) was Professor and former Chair of the Department of History at Indiana University. His books include Rulers of Empire: The French Colonial Service in Africa. James D. Le Sueur is Associate Professor of History at the University of NebraskäLincoln and lives in Lincoln.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents:
Foreword James D. LeSueur
Preface
Introduction
1.The Impulse ot Inequality
2.The Establishment of Slave Societies
3.The Philosophes and Africa
4.Three Patterns of Interaction: West Indies, France, and Senegal
5.The Issue of Slavery
6.The Rise of Imperialism
7.The Nineteenth Century Confronts Slavery
8.Scientific Racism
9.The Lure of Empire
Afterword
Notes
Index