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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825274303321

Autore

Gamble Harry

Titolo

Contesting French West Africa : battles over schools and the colonial order, 1900-1950 / Harry Gamble. / / Harry Gamble

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4962-0232-5

1-4962-0234-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

France Overseas : Studies in Empire and Decolonization

Disciplina

370.966

Soggetti

Education - Political aspects - Africa, French-speaking West

Education - Africa, French-speaking West - French influences

Educational change - Africa, French-speaking West

Africa, French-speaking West History

France Colonies Africa Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Conflicting visions : framing French West Africa -- The lessons of war : rethinking the originaires -- Toward the interior : rural schools and colonial reform -- Reorienting African schoolteachers : agents of the future -- Leopold Sedar Senghor and the popular front : new possibilities for reform -- The national revolution in AOF : debating the future during the war years -- Gaullist hesitations : from the Brazzaville conference to the liberation -- The education of African "citizens" : struggles over integration.