French Colonial Rule

Ruth Ginio; Jennifer Sessions

doi:10.1093/obo/9780199846733-0029

French Colonial Rule

Ruth Ginio, Jennifer Sessions

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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The French presence in Africa dates to the 17th century, but the main period of colonial expansion came in the 19th century with the invasion of Ottoman Algiers in 1830, conquests in West and Equatorial Africa during the so-called scramble for Africa and the establishment of protectorates in Tunisia and Morocco in the decades before the First World War. To these were added parts of German Togo and Cameroon, assigned to France as League of Nations mandates after the war...

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Oxford Bibliographies
Publisher	Oxford University Press
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199846733-0029
State	Published - Feb 2016

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