Raymond F Betts
Biographic Data
| ID | 189067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond F Betts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond F |
| FAMILY NAME | Betts |
| SIGNATURE | BETTS R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A History of Popular Culture: More of Everything, Faster and Brighter
This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War. A History of Popular Culture explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world since the end of World War Two: instantaneous communications, widespread consumption in a market-based economy and the visualization of reality. Betts cons…
Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914
This work investigates the social, economic and political impact of the European colonial wars in Africa on both the victors and the vanquished. It examines the role of both the imperial powers and the African people who joined with or resisted them. Examining the experiences of Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Portugal and Italy, it offers a comprehensive study of the military processes of conquest.; Adopting both indigenous and imperial persp…
Decolonization
Raymond F. Betts considers the 'process' of decolonization and the outcomes which have left a legacy of problems, drawing on numerous examples including Ghana, India, Rwanda and Hong Kong. He examines: the effects of the two World Wars on the colonial empire the expectations and problems created by independence the major demographic shifts accompanying the end of the empire the cultural experiences, literary movements, and the search for ideology…
A History of Popular Culture
This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War. Raymond Betts considers the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world since the end of World War Two: instantaneous communications, widespread consumption in a market-based economy and the visualization of reality. Betts considers the domi…
La Ville Europeenne Outre Mers: Un Modele Conquerant? (XVe-XXe Siecles)
Decolonization
The Idea of Africa
The Netherlands and the Rise of Modern Imperialism: Colonies and Foreign Policy, 1870-1902. Maarten Kuietenbrouwer , Hugh Beyer
France and Decolonization, 1900-1960
Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance.
Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa: 1880-1985
Prologue 2. Economy and society, 1880-1940 3. Government and politics, 1880-1940 4. Culture and religion, 1880-1940 5. Economy and society, 1940-85 6. Government and politics, 1940-85 7. Culuture and religion, 1940-85 8. Democracy and dependence, 1985-95 9. Epilogue Bibliographical essay Index
March or Die: A New History of the French Foreign Legion
The Cambridge History of Africa. Volume 6. From 1870-1905
Dakar: Ville Impériale (1857–1960)
Colonial Cities: Essays on Urbanism in a Colonial Context
The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800
Histoire des Villes et des Societes Urbaines en Afrique Noire. Volume I: Les Villes Pre-Coloniales
The Climax of French Imperial Expansion, 1914-1924.
Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, '25, '26, and 1827)
Journal Article Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, ‘25, ‘26, and 1827) and A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory during the year 1819 Get access Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, ‘25, ‘26, and 1827). By Duden Gottfried. Edited by Goodrich James W..…
The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century: An Old Regime Business
Africa and Europe
Immense Dimensions: The Impact of the American West on Late Nineteenth-Century European Thought about Expansion
Journal Article Immense Dimensions: The Impact of the American West on Late Nineteenth-Century European Thought about Expansion Get access Raymond F. Betts Raymond F. Betts professor of history University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 10, Issue 2, April 1979, Pages 149–166, https://doi.org/10.2307/968020 Published: 01 April 1979
Victorian Lagos: Aspects of Nineteenth Century Lagos Life
Togo under Imperial Germany, 1884-1914
Robert Delavignette on the French Empire: Selected Writings
The Establishment of the Medina in Dakar, Senegal, 1914
Opening ParagraphWhile the social history of Dakar, Senegal, exhibits many of the characteristics common to most Eurafrican cities on the West coast, the rather abrupt manner in which the policy of residential segregation replaced the earlier pattern of co-existence, if not integration, of the African and European populations merits particular attention. The establishment of the Medina-the 'native quarter', to employ the colonial idiom of the day…
Victorian Lagos: Aspects of Nineteenth Century Lagos Life
Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa, 1895-1914, by Bernard Porter
Journal Article Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa, 1895-1914, by Bernard Porter Get access Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa, 1895-1914 by Bernard Porter. London, Macmillan Co., 1968.—xvi, 369 pp. Raymond F. Betts Raymond F. Betts Grinnell College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 86, Issue 2, June 197…
Western Yorubaland under European Rule, 1889-1945: A Comparative Analysis of French and British Colonialism
Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914
This work investigates the social, economic and political impact of the European colonial wars in Africa on both the victors and the vanquished. It examines the role of both the imperial powers and the African people who joined with or resisted them. Examining the experiences of Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Portugal and Italy, it offers a comprehensive study of the military processes of conquest.; Adopting both indigenous and imperial persp…
Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa: 1880-1985
Prologue 2. Economy and society, 1880-1940 3. Government and politics, 1880-1940 4. Culture and religion, 1880-1940 5. Economy and society, 1940-85 6. Government and politics, 1940-85 7. Culuture and religion, 1940-85 8. Democracy and dependence, 1985-95 9. Epilogue Bibliographical essay Index
Assimilation and Association in French Colonial Theory, 1890-1914
The Cambridge History of Africa. Volume 6. From 1870-1905
The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century: An Old Regime Business
France and Decolonization, 1900-1960
Immense Dimensions: The Impact of the American West on Late Nineteenth-Century European Thought about Expansion
Journal Article Immense Dimensions: The Impact of the American West on Late Nineteenth-Century European Thought about Expansion Get access Raymond F. Betts Raymond F. Betts professor of history University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 10, Issue 2, April 1979, Pages 149–166, https://doi.org/10.2307/968020 Published: 01 April 1979
The Longwood Library
Assimilation and Association in French Colonial Theory, 1890-1914
Histoire de l'Océan Indien. Auguste Toussaint
Morocco: Problems of New Power . I. William Zartman
Historie de l'Algérie Contemporaine. Charles-André Julien
Du Pont de Nemours in Napoleonic France, 1802-1815
All of Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours' biographers tend to discount the significance of the twilight years their subject spent in Napoleonic France.' While it is true that he did nothing of singular importance then,2 what should nonetheless arrest the historian's attention is the final and futile struggle Du Pont undertook to attain success and to find a comfortable place for himself and his beliefs in still another new order. That struggle, so…
Decolonisation et Regimes Politiques en Afrique Noire
The Ideology of Blackness
Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa, 1895-1914, by Bernard Porter
Journal Article Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa, 1895-1914, by Bernard Porter Get access Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa, 1895-1914 by Bernard Porter. London, Macmillan Co., 1968.—xvi, 369 pp. Raymond F. Betts Raymond F. Betts Grinnell College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 86, Issue 2, June 197…
The Establishment of the Medina in Dakar, Senegal, 1914
Opening ParagraphWhile the social history of Dakar, Senegal, exhibits many of the characteristics common to most Eurafrican cities on the West coast, the rather abrupt manner in which the policy of residential segregation replaced the earlier pattern of co-existence, if not integration, of the African and European populations merits particular attention. The establishment of the Medina-the 'native quarter', to employ the colonial idiom of the day…
The Scramble for Africa: Causes and Dimensions of Empire
The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
The Scramble for Africa
Western Yorubaland under European Rule, 1889-1945: A Comparative Analysis of French and British Colonialism
The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa
European Imperialism and the Partition of Africa
Imperialism: The Robinson and Gallagher Controversy
Robert Delavignette on the French Empire: Selected Writings
Immense Dimensions: The Impact of the American West on Late Nineteenth-Century European Thought about Expansion
Journal Article Immense Dimensions: The Impact of the American West on Late Nineteenth-Century European Thought about Expansion Get access Raymond F. Betts Raymond F. Betts professor of history University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 10, Issue 2, April 1979, Pages 149–166, https://doi.org/10.2307/968020 Published: 01 April 1979
Victorian Lagos: Aspects of Nineteenth Century Lagos Life
Togo under Imperial Germany, 1884-1914
Africa and Europe
The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century: An Old Regime Business
The Climax of French Imperial Expansion, 1914-1924.
Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, '25, '26, and 1827)
Journal Article Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, ‘25, ‘26, and 1827) and A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory during the year 1819 Get access Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, ‘25, ‘26, and 1827). By Duden Gottfried. Edited by Goodrich James W..…
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