Louis Faidherbe
William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa/Illustrations Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. Louis Faidherbe (1818 — 1889) ...
Preface
William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. Preface This work was begun at Stanford University in 1965 initially as a dissertation; it developed from an interest in the history of French bureaucratic organizations, and was further stimulated...
Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa/The Legacy
William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. IX. — The Legacy Once the new states had achieved independence they began to Africanize their administrations. In Senegal, all the French commandants de cercles handed over their power to...
Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa/Contents
William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. Contents Preface Photos Abbreviations Introduction Founding an Overseas Administration The Years of Experimentation Beginnings of the Ecole Coloniale The Locus of Power The Colonial School and the New Generation The Era of Lost...
Notes
William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. Notes Preface 1. A good beginning in this field: Martin A. Klein. Islam and Imperialism in Senegal: Sine-Saloum, 1847-1914. Stanford, Calif., 1968 Brian Weinstein, “Governor General Félix Eboué—A Short Biography”. Unpublished...
The Locus of Power
William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. IV. — The Locus of Power Robert Delavignette entitled his work on the career of colonial administration Les Vrais chefs de l’empire. No title could have been more aptly chosen,...
Founding an Overseas Administration
William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. I. — Founding an Overseas Administration French colonization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries achieved domination over land but usually not over the indigenous populations. Upon the arrival of the...
Beginnings of the Ecole Coloniale
William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. III. — Beginnings of the Ecole Coloniale Until 1914 the Ecole Coloniale played a very modest role in the training of colonial administrators, furnishing only one out of every five...
The Colonial School and the New Generation
William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. V. — The Colonial School and the New Generation A decree promulgated in 1912 shaped the basic recruiting practices of the Corps of Colonial Administrators for over a quarter of...
Introduction
William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. Introduction Forts and trading posts acquired in the seventeenth century on the coast of West Africa became the springboard for French territorial conquests in Senegal in the mid-nineteenth century. From...