Inaug.-diss.--Greifswald. / Lebenslauf. "Schrifttum und materialien": p. 7-11. Includes bibliographical references

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This thesis is a survey of the development of religious and secular colonial education for African girls and women in Afrique Occidentale Francaise, from 1819 to 1960. The historiography of colonial education in AOF has dismissed the education of African girls and women as they were numerically too insignificant to merit any special attention. / This study argues that an examination of educational objectives, institutions and curricula provides a rare and valuable window on French colonial discourse on African women. It was a discourse fed by sexism and ethnocentrism, that ultimately intended to refashion women's gender identities and roles to approximate those prescribed by the French ideology of domesticity. / The system took the form of a number of domestic sciences training centres that aimed to change the very social definition of what constituted an African woman--to remake her according to the Euro-Christian, patriarchal ideal of mother, wife and housekeeper. Colonial educators argued that such a woman, especially in her role as mother, was the best conduit for the propagation of French mores, practices, and most importantly, submission to French hegemony. / The final decades of formal colonial rule in AOF saw the emergence of a small African male bourgeoisie. Members of this class, called "assimiles", accepted to varying degrees French language, lifestyle and values. This study further examines how many of them embraced the ideology of domesticity and became active in the debate on African women's education and the need to control and transform their gender identities.

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Th. 3e cycle--Sci. de l'inf.--Paris 2, 1979.

L'histoire coloniale française a été abordée sous de nombreuses facettes, mais peu étudiée du point de vue des mouvements politiques de droite. Pour comprendre ce que les droites attendent de l'empire, l'entre-deux-guerres est une période particulièrement intéressante. En 1919, les droites sont à la tête du gouvernement français, après en avoir été éloignées pendant une vingtaine d'années, et elles parviennent à y rester sur la majeure partie de la période. De même, en 1919, les frontières de l'empire français sont désormais fixées et cela marque l'apogée de la colonisation ainsi qu'un renouvellement de la question coloniale. En effet, la question n'est plus de savoir si les frontières doivent être encore repoussées, mais que faire de cet empire. Ainsi en arrivant au pouvoir les droites vont concevoir une politique coloniale à leur image, avec comme base les principes du libéralisme et du protectionnisme. Pour favoriser la prospérité économique de la France, les droites imaginent une politique dans laquelle l'empire français sert de pilier économique à sa métropole, en l'aidant à regagner sa puissance sans rien demander en retour. Seulement, les droites comprennent progressivement que la métropole ne peut rester éloignée des affaires coloniales. De la création d'un programme de mise en valeur, en passant par la construction d'un soutien financier aux territoires outre-mer, jusqu'au maintien de l'autorité française dans les colonies, les droites se retrouvent confrontées à la réalité impériale et au besoin de réviser leurs idéaux politiques pour l'empire. / The French Colonial Empire has been studied using multiple points of reference, rarely however, has the subject has been considered from the right-wing political coalition's perspective. As it happened, the interwar period exercised a crucial influence on the right-wing's expectations for the empire at that time. After being out in the cold for two decades, 1919 eventually saw the right-wing being re-elected to power. Significantly, 1919 also saw of the demarcation of the extent of the French colonies, with the finalization of the physical borders. This resulted in an important shift in debate from the 'scope and scale of the Empire', to how to 'administer or manage the Empire'. True to their fundamentals, the Rights embraced liberalism and protectionism at the heart of their policy. In order to best serve and foster France's economic prosperity, they devised policies in which the French empires served as a strong contributor to France's domestic economic ambitions, without the colonies expecting to receive any reciprocity. The Rights, however, soon came to appreciate that they would be required to ensure greater contribution equality; as was evident in the creation of the program mise en valeur. This plan offered a platform to deliver their imperial ideology and authority, by leveraging a financial support plan to the overseas territories.

The present study is a survey of Anglo-French imperial, policies on the Upper Nile question and the Fashoda Crisis which resulted, and it is an attempt to place this conflict within the framework of the "new imperialism" after 1870.

This thesis looks at how news shaped people's relationship to the world in Algeria under French rule. This territory operated under an uncertain legal status that made it both a part of France and a colony, and within it lived a society divided between European settlers and Muslim natives. Accounts of recent events helped Algerians determine what was domestic and what was foreign in a place where those two notions were highly contested. Colonialism did not close Algeria off from the world or open it up, instead it created a particular geography. In a series of case-studies taken from across Algeria, this thesis investigates a wide range of types of news: manuscripts, rumours, wire dispatches, newspapers, illustrations, songs, newsreels, and radio broadcasts. It focuses on the period in which Algeria's legal status as part of France was most certain, from the end of the conquest and the consolidation of Republican rule in the 1880s to the outbreak of the Second World War. In this period, authorities thought the influence of outside events on Algeria was a bigger threat than disturbances within. Because of this, state surveillance produced reports to monitor foreign news, and these form the backbone of this study. But state attempts to manage the flow of news had unintended effects. Instead of establishing effective censorship, authorities ended up spreading news and making it more politically sensitive. Settlers, supposedly the state's allies, proved highly disruptive to state attempts to control the flow of information. Through a social history of information in a settler colonial society, this research reconsiders the relationship between changes in media and people's sense of community. From the telegraph to the radio, new technologies worked to divide colonial society rather than tying it together, and the same medium could lead to divergent senses of community.