Colonial lobby groups played an important role in French expansion overseas. Among then was the Oceanic lobby, which promoted the French colonies of the South Pacific. Several individual writers and explorers argued for a French presence in Oceania from the late 1700s onwards, but it was only in the works of Paul Deschanel in the 1880s that a coherent theory of the importance of the South Pacific was articulated. Deschanel argued that the opening of the Panama Canal would revolutionize the economy of the world and transfer the centre of political and economic gravity to the Pacific. This idea remained current during the late 1880s and was taken up by the Comité de l'Océanie française. From 1905 to 1940, this committee was the main spokesman...
The policy of colonial expansion got most often the consent of the parlementary middle of the French...
The Reign of the Pacific, by René Vermont The shift of the world economic and technological center ...
En 1885, les Etats-Unis d'Amérique ont mené une intervention d'envergure dans l'isthme de Panama. Pe...
Colonial lobby groups played an important role in French expansion overseas. Among then was the Ocea...
Colonial lobby groups played an important role in French expansion overseas. Among then was the Ocea...
For a long time some members in the French Residency in Port Vila dreamed of promoting in the New He...
During the Third Republic, France established a model of colonial System in the E.F.O., its remote p...
France seems to have constantly ran counter to regional move when we consider her overseas territori...
International audienceThe Jarnac Convention (1847) prohibiting France and Britain to seize the Leewa...
There were some hesitations and contradictions in the French colonial politic in the Pacific ; the b...
La France s’implante à Mayotte en 1841, mais la ratification royale est attendue deux longues années...
Independences and dependences in the Insular Pacific, Paul De Deckker A handful of islands, a comple...
The French Overseas territories represent an opportunity for France because they are a window on the...
Between 1877 and 1882, Charles du Breil, Marquis de Rays was at the head of an entreprise which purp...
Conference paper for the 4th Annual Pacific Islands Studies Conference, "The Emerging Pacific Island...
The policy of colonial expansion got most often the consent of the parlementary middle of the French...
The Reign of the Pacific, by René Vermont The shift of the world economic and technological center ...
En 1885, les Etats-Unis d'Amérique ont mené une intervention d'envergure dans l'isthme de Panama. Pe...
Colonial lobby groups played an important role in French expansion overseas. Among then was the Ocea...
Colonial lobby groups played an important role in French expansion overseas. Among then was the Ocea...
For a long time some members in the French Residency in Port Vila dreamed of promoting in the New He...
During the Third Republic, France established a model of colonial System in the E.F.O., its remote p...
France seems to have constantly ran counter to regional move when we consider her overseas territori...
International audienceThe Jarnac Convention (1847) prohibiting France and Britain to seize the Leewa...
There were some hesitations and contradictions in the French colonial politic in the Pacific ; the b...
La France s’implante à Mayotte en 1841, mais la ratification royale est attendue deux longues années...
Independences and dependences in the Insular Pacific, Paul De Deckker A handful of islands, a comple...
The French Overseas territories represent an opportunity for France because they are a window on the...
Between 1877 and 1882, Charles du Breil, Marquis de Rays was at the head of an entreprise which purp...
Conference paper for the 4th Annual Pacific Islands Studies Conference, "The Emerging Pacific Island...
The policy of colonial expansion got most often the consent of the parlementary middle of the French...
The Reign of the Pacific, by René Vermont The shift of the world economic and technological center ...
En 1885, les Etats-Unis d'Amérique ont mené une intervention d'envergure dans l'isthme de Panama. Pe...