The German Question in French Cameroun, 1919-1939

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ID2107019
AuthorsRichard A Joseph (0000-0002-3280-069X, University of Khartoum, corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume17
Issue1
Pages65-90
Publication date1975-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500007647
OpenAlexW2119799978
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited4

The study of imperial rivalries is progressing at a rapid rate as more national archives become available and more researchers enter the field. But this progress tends too often to be a linear one, teaching us more about the aspirations, strategies and accomplishments of the rival powers but little about what took place within the actual pieces of territory over which they contested. And this is understandable, because whereas the former domain can be discussed with an increasing degree of precision, the latter tends to be more intractable. After all, colonial possessions were the 'objects', things to be fought over and about. The intention of this paper, however, is to look at the other, perhaps more problematic, dimensions of imperial rivalry, viz., the awareness and activities of the inhabitants and residents of one colonial territory with respect to the keen international competition over their country. By inhabitants and residents I mean to include not only the indigenous peoples of Cameroun but also the French administrators who were present in the territory during the interwar period

Archaeology · Colonialism · Competition (biology · Economic history · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · German · Indigenous · Political science · Rivalry · African history and culture studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law

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