Author: Eric T. Jennings
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804750479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Winner of the 2001 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize of the French Colonial Historical Society This book examines the role of the Vichy regime in bringing about profound changes in the French colonial empire. It argues that Vichy contributed to postwar decolonization by introducing an ideology based on a new, harsher, brand of colonization.