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Has anyone read anything good about French colonialims in sub-saharan Africa, or anything good about 19th century colonialism? I was trying to look up the French campaigns that put places like Mali and Niger under their control and there wasn't much on wikipedia, especially considering there seemed to have been several big battles and conquests over many thousands of miles in a relatively short time frame.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:I can't think of any French stuff offhand, but I've got one on Germany's misadventures in Africa you might want to check out. It's not exclusively focused on colonialism, but nevertheless I always recommend is Isabel Hull's Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany. While focusing on Germany militarism, it uses military and colonial policy during the Herero-Nama Revolt in German Southwest Africa as a major example. Thanks, I was also considering reading King Leopold's Ghost although for some reason I'm especially interested in French history, maybe because it seems to be covered so poorly in American popular history. I'm just really curious how European colonial powers went into places that maybe before hadn't had any government at all and built a modern state, generally in very little time. Like the Belgian Congo though anything about the Herero-Nama revolt has got to be depressing, although otherwise it sounds much like what I'm looking for
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