French colonial empire and the Popular Front: hope and disillusion

Abstract

The politics of failure: historicising Popular Front colonial policy in French West Africa / Gary Wilder -- Reforming reformatory technologies: the example of New Caledonia / Don LaCoss -- The Africanist International and the Popular Front / John Hargreaves -- The Popular Front and internationalism: the Tunisian case in comparative perspective / Alejandro Col(c)Łs -- Protectorate, association, reformism: the roots of the Popular Front's republican policy in Indochina / Gilles de Gant(c)·s -- Reformism and the French "official mind": the 1944 Brazzaville Conference and the legacy of the Popular Front / Martin Shipway -- The Popular Front and the colonial question. French West Africa: an example of reformist colonialism / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- Women, children and the Popular Front's mission of inquiry in French West Africa / Ghislaine Lydon -- Did the Popular Front have any significant impact in Guin(c)♭e? / Michel Brot -- Socialism in the colonies: Cameroun under the Popular Front / Jean Koufan -- The Popular Front and the Blum-Viollette Plan, 1936-37 / France Tostain -- The Popular Front's colonial policies in Indochina: reassessing the Popular Front's "colonisation altruiste" / Panivong Norindr