Les travaux d'Eric Jennings explorent la France des XIXe et XXe siècles, examinant son passé colonial, les processus de décolonisation et le monde francophone élargi. Son érudition examine de manière critique la politique coloniale dans diverses régions, en se concentrant sur l'interaction du lieu, du pouvoir et des lignes de faille inhérentes aux structures coloniales. Jennings accorde une attention particulière au rôle essentiel de l'Afrique subsaharienne dans le mouvement précoce de la France Libre, en analysant les questions de légitimité et de coercition. Ses écrits offrent des aperçus profonds sur les dynamiques historiques complexes de l'influence mondiale française.
Early in World War II, thousands of refugees traveled from France to Vichy- controlled Martinique, en route to safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer, the exiles formed influential ties-with one another and with local black dissidents. As Eric T. Jennings shows, what began as expulsion became a kind of rescue.
Intended as a reminder of Europe for soldiers and clerks of the empire, the city of Dalat, located in the hills of Southern Vietnam, was built by the French in an alpine locale that reminded them of home. This book uncovers the strange 100-year history of a colonial city that was conceived as a center of power.
A unique look at the key role Free French Africa played during World War II to help the Allied cause.