The French Encounter with Africans - White Response to Blacks, 1530-1880. Foreword by James D. Le Sueur

Now a classic, The French Encounter with Africans is essential reading for anyone engaged in current discussions of European relations with non-Europeans and with issues of racism, ethnicity, identity, colonialism, and empire.

List of contents

Table of Contents:

Foreword James D. LeSueur

Preface

Introduction

1.The Impulse ot Inequality

2.The Establishment of Slave Societies

3.The Philosophes and Africa

4.Three Patterns of Interaction: West Indies, France, and Senegal

5.The Issue of Slavery

6.The Rise of Imperialism

7.The Nineteenth Century Confronts Slavery

8.Scientific Racism

9.The Lure of Empire

Afterword

Notes

Index

About the author

William B. Cohen (1941¿2002) was Professor and former Chair of the Department of History at Indiana University. His books include Rulers of Empire: The French Colonial Service in Africa.

James D. Le Sueur is Associate Professor of History at the University of NebraskäLincoln and lives in Lincoln.

Summary

Traces the ways in which negative attitudes toward blacks became deeply embedded in French culture. Examining the forces that shaped these views, this book shows the inequality of French interactions with blacks in Africa and in the slave colonies of the West Indies. It is useful for those dealing with issues of racism, ethnicity, and identity.

Product details

• Authors: William Cohen, William B Cohen, William B. Cohen
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2003
• EAN: 9780253216502
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21650-2
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 238 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 531 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous