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The Politics at Modernism's Funeral
In: Canadian journal of political and social theory: Revue canadienne de théorie politique et sociale, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 89
ISSN: 0380-9420
Les racines de l'impérialisme français en Extrême- Orient, à propos des thèses de J.F. Cady
In: Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 282-299
Arguing the apocalypse: A theory of millenial rhetoric
In: History of European ideas, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 125-126
ISSN: 0191-6599
French Far Eastern Policy in the 1930s
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 117-149
ISSN: 1469-8099
The completion in 1986 of the Documents diplomatiques français, 1932–1939 permits a review of French Far Eastern policy during that troubled time characterized by J.-B. Duroselle as 'la décadence.' This massive documentary collection, however, still dose not provide a full picture of the forces which shaped French East Asian policy in the years before the outbreak of the Pacific War. Understandably focused upon European developments, it begins and ends, from the Far Eastern perspective, in medias res; that is, after the outbreak of the Manchurian crisis and before the Japanese occupation of Indochina. Moreover, like other compilations of what statesmen and diplomats said to each other, this one slights economic factors and, though to a lesser extent, the role of public opinion. Even taken in their own terms, the documents perhaps reveal more about what others said and did to the French than about what they themselves accomplished. That points to a more fundamental problem, for one can question whether anything so gelatinous as the French responses or lack thereof to developments largely beyond their control can even be described as 'policy.' Still, although much more work in archives and private papers will be necessary before the entire story can be pieced together, these documents do shed light on what passed for French policy in East Asia during the years before the outbreak of World War II.
French Far Eastern Policy in the 1930s
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 117
ISSN: 0026-749X
Lyonnais Imperialism in the Far East 1900–1938
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 225-248
ISSN: 1469-8099
Influential citizens of the French city of Lyon embraced the cause of expansion during the nineteenth century. Religious zeal led to the founding of the Oeuvre de la Propagation de la Foi during the Restoration, and local Catholics continued to lend fervent support to overseas missionary endeavors. But even when the religious impulse towards expansion stood at its zenith, the Lyonnais did not overlook the more concrete advantages to be secured through the acquisition of Algeria and the opening of China to Western trade. Economic motivation took on far more importance during the second half of the century when the devastation of French sericulture by pebrine forced the magnates of the silk industry, the most important local industry and the only French industry dominant in the international market, to look elsewhere for new supplies of raw silk. The Far East, the world's greatest silk-producing region, became the focus of attention, and the Lyon Chamber of Commerce, the most effective local organization devoted to the cause of imperialism, supported the opening of Japan, called for the wringing of new concessions from China, and backed the acquisition and development of Indochina. Just as within the larger pattern of French municipal imperialism the business communities of Bordeaux and Marseille acquired vital stakes in West Africa and North Africa, so also Lyon's business community came to play a pivotal role in French undertakings in Eastern Asia where the Lyonnais soon pushed their activities beyond the confines of the all-important silk trade.
Johnson, E.A.J., American Imperialism in the Image of Peer Gynt – Memoirs of a Professor-Bureaucrat, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1971, 352 p
In: Études internationales, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 272
ISSN: 1703-7891
AUGUSTE COMTE: PROPHET OF RECONCILIATION AND REACTION
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 44-65
ISSN: 0036-8237
Civilization and Its Discontented
In: Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 277
Vietnam. The Revolutionary Path
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 351
ISSN: 1715-3379
The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina (1870-1940)
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 757
ISSN: 1715-3379
The Red Earth. A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 158
ISSN: 1715-3379
Books reviewed
In: Labor history, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 438-462
ISSN: 1469-9702
Books reviewed
In: Labor history, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 290-317
ISSN: 1469-9702