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France's wars in Chad : military intervention and decolonization in Africa / Nathaniel K. Powell, Lancaster University.
Van Pelt Library DT546.463.F8 P69 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powell, Nathaniel Kinsey, author.
- Series:
- African studies series ; 150.
- African studies series ; 150
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History, Military.
- Relations.
- France--Relations--Chad.
- France.
- Chad--Relations--France.
- Chad.
- Chad--History, Military.
- Central African Republic--History.
- Central African Republic.
- History.
- Decolonization--Chad.
- Decolonization.
- International relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Military history.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 360 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Military intervention and decolonization in Africa
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Shortly before midnight on August 10 1960, the famous writer André Malraux stepped onto a balcony in front of a large crowd in Fort-Lamy, the capital of the French colony of Chad. As French Minister of Culture, he had come as President Charles de Gaulle's official representative to preside over the ceremonies marking the territory's independence. While Malraux invoked Chad's historical role as a launching pad for Free French Forces in the Second World War and the linked destiny of the two nations, the lights suddenly went out. A power shortage had plunged Fort-Lamy into darkness. Someone in Malraux's entourage scrambled to find a flashlight so he could finish the speech and so François Tombalbaye, Chad's leader, could read his. With this inauspicious beginning, independent Chad would soon embark on a tragic path leading to decades of violent conflict, foreign interventions, state collapse, and bloody dictatorship"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "Experts in decolonization"
- Limousin
- The Claustre Affair
- The empire strikes back : French intervention and return to war
- Nigeria enters the scene
- The decline and fall of the Central African Empire
- Libya invades
- Endgame
- Conclusions : the collapse of a neocolonial order.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Powell, Nathaniel Kinsey, France's wars in chad
- ISBN:
- 9781108488679
- 1108488676
- 9781108738620
- 1108738621
- OCLC:
- 1145893010
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