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The French in the Mississippi Valley (University of Illinois Press, 1965) McDermott, John F., ed. Frenchmen and French ways in the Mississippi Valley (1969) Marshall, Bill,ed. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 Vol 2005) Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada -A Cultural History (2000). 340 pp.
The Selling of the Empire: British and French Imperialist Propaganda, 1890–1940 (1985) Chafer, Tony, and Amanda Sackur. Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (2002) Confer, Vincent (1964). "French Colonial Ideas before 1789". French Historical Studies. 3 (3): 338–359. doi:10.2307/285947. JSTOR 285947 ...
[1] [2] During the 19th and 20th centuries, the French colonial empire was the second largest colonial empire in the world only behind the British Empire; it extended over 13,500,000 km 2 (5,200,000 sq mi) [3] [4] of land at its height in the 1920s and 1930s. In terms of population however, on the eve of World War II, France and her colonial ...
Like the other European colonists, the French began their colonization via commercial activities, starting with the establishment of a factory in Surat in 1668. The French started to settle down in India in 1673, beginning with the purchase of land at Chandernagore from the Mughal Governor of Bengal, followed by the acquisition of Pondicherry ...
The Myth of the Savage: and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas (1984). Eccles, W. J. The Canadian Frontier, 1534–1760 (1983). Eccles, W. J. France in America (1990). Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: the making of French Canada: a cultural history (2000). Roberts, Walter Adolphe. The French in the West Indies (1971).
French Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) (1896–1960) French Togoland (1918–1960) (formerly a German colony, mandate became a French colony) (now Togo) Nigeria. The Enclaves of Forcados and Badjibo (territory under a lease of 30 years) (1900–1927) The Emirate of Muri (Northeast of Nigeria) (1892–1893) Gambia. Albreda (1681–1857)
The French presence in the Ohio Valley was the result of French colonization of North America in present-day Pennsylvania.After Cartier and Champlain's expeditions, France succeeded in establishing relations with the Native American tribes and colonizing the future cities of Montreal and Quebec.
Colonization is driven by several factors. First, there is the economic aspect: Europeans want to exploit the resources of the African continent. The second aspect is demographic: seeing the population increase significantly, explorers want to discover new lands to settle in. [ citation needed ] Finally, one of the most important aspects, which ...