Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945 1960

by Frederick Cooper

Book Overview

A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in Africa

As the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a citizen and different too. Citizenship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691171459
• ISBN13: 9780691171456
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"