During the second half of the 19th century the Pomare kingdom which became a French protectorate and then a French colony, turned into a centre for the export of cotton, vanilla and copra. In spite of numerous crises and conspicuous failures the development was spectacular. In the first period it was linked with the establishment of a large plantation of more than 1,000 hectares in Tahiti. But this firm went bankrupt and it was not taken over by any other, since access to land ownership proved too uncertain in spite of a policy aimed at demolishing customary tenure. The failure of immigration also contributed to the lack of success of the European plantations: less than 300 "planters" developed the land in French Polynesian, and for most of...
In mid-17th century the first settlers depend on Amerindian environmental knowledge and on the Ameri...
During the colonial period, and in particular beginning with the conquest of Algeria, the perception...
La pratique de cultures d'exportation - présente en Malaisie dès le XIXè siècle, connaît un essor re...
In the 19th century, all the agricultural productions were tested in French Polynesia. Today, the co...
For a long time some members in the French Residency in Port Vila dreamed of promoting in the New He...
Colonization in Vanuatu started with Australian trading firms establishing outposts on Efate. Their ...
The only real attempt to establish large plantations in New Caledonia is linked with the period of i...
Les petits agriculteurs de la zone cannière n'ont pu se développer en paysannerie au sens classique ...
Reunion Island started growing sugar cane in the 17th century. Driven by white men in search of prof...
International audienceAt the end of the 19th century in the New Hebrides archipelago, coconut cultiv...
This paper examines the phase of plantation development in Vanuatu based on the employment of indent...
L’agriculture marchande est aujourd’hui largement répandue en Côte d’ivoire forestière. Les cultures...
En 1113, David, le plus jeune fils de sainte Marguerite d’Écosse, établit à Selkirk dans le Sud de l...
During the Third Republic, France established a model of colonial System in the E.F.O., its remote p...
Time-honored protests by missionaries and modern ideological attitudes have induced many people to b...
In mid-17th century the first settlers depend on Amerindian environmental knowledge and on the Ameri...
During the colonial period, and in particular beginning with the conquest of Algeria, the perception...
La pratique de cultures d'exportation - présente en Malaisie dès le XIXè siècle, connaît un essor re...
In the 19th century, all the agricultural productions were tested in French Polynesia. Today, the co...
For a long time some members in the French Residency in Port Vila dreamed of promoting in the New He...
Colonization in Vanuatu started with Australian trading firms establishing outposts on Efate. Their ...
The only real attempt to establish large plantations in New Caledonia is linked with the period of i...
Les petits agriculteurs de la zone cannière n'ont pu se développer en paysannerie au sens classique ...
Reunion Island started growing sugar cane in the 17th century. Driven by white men in search of prof...
International audienceAt the end of the 19th century in the New Hebrides archipelago, coconut cultiv...
This paper examines the phase of plantation development in Vanuatu based on the employment of indent...
L’agriculture marchande est aujourd’hui largement répandue en Côte d’ivoire forestière. Les cultures...
En 1113, David, le plus jeune fils de sainte Marguerite d’Écosse, établit à Selkirk dans le Sud de l...
During the Third Republic, France established a model of colonial System in the E.F.O., its remote p...
Time-honored protests by missionaries and modern ideological attitudes have induced many people to b...
In mid-17th century the first settlers depend on Amerindian environmental knowledge and on the Ameri...
During the colonial period, and in particular beginning with the conquest of Algeria, the perception...
La pratique de cultures d'exportation - présente en Malaisie dès le XIXè siècle, connaît un essor re...