Alexander Sydney Kanya-Forstner: ''The French in in West Africa''

Scope and Content

'The French in West Africa: a study in military imperialism', a Fellowship dissertation for Gonville and Caius College, 425 pages.

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Acquisition Information

Transferred from the African Studies Centre Library, Cambridge, 1983.

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Bibliography

The dissertation is essentially the same as Kanya-Forstner's Cambridge Ph.D. thesis, 'The role of the military in the formation of French policy towards the Western Sudan, 1879-1899' (Ph.D. 5149, 1965), which was published in a revised and enlarged form as The conquest of the Western Sudan: a study of French military imperialism (Cambridge, 1969).