Tricolor and Crescent - Watson, William E.
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For 1,400 years, France has been in contact with Islam and Muslim populations. This study explores their long relationship and history, examining in particular the expansion and contraction of France's Islamic Empire throughout the 20th century. This modern empire essentially consisted of conquered territories inhabited by Muslims and administered by Frenchmen. Thus far, France has avoided a September 11-type terrorist attack despite the intra-country presence of Muslim terrorist groups like the Roubaix gang and Bin Laden's al-Qa'ida. Other Western countries can learn a great deal from…mehr

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For 1,400 years, France has been in contact with Islam and Muslim populations. This study explores their long relationship and history, examining in particular the expansion and contraction of France's Islamic Empire throughout the 20th century. This modern empire essentially consisted of conquered territories inhabited by Muslims and administered by Frenchmen. Thus far, France has avoided a September 11-type terrorist attack despite the intra-country presence of Muslim terrorist groups like the Roubaix gang and Bin Laden's al-Qa'ida. Other Western countries can learn a great deal from France's long and varied experiences. Watson addresses the origins of Franco-Muslim contact and details early cases of French expansion into the Islamic world. The bulk of the book, however, focuses on the creation of the modern French Empire in Saharan and Sudannic Africa, as well as in Syria and the Lebanese Mandates, during the New Imperialism of the 19th and 20th centuries. Features include a selection of pertinent documents that illustrate the extent of French involvement with the Islamic world.
Autorenporträt
William E. Watson is Professor of History at Immaculata University, where he also serves as Director of the Duffy's Cut Project. He obtained his PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania (1990). He is coauthor of Massacre at Duffy's Cut: Tragedy and Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad (The History Press, 2018), Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People (ABC-Clio Publishers, 2015), and The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut: The Irish Who Died Building America's Most Dangerous Stretch of Railroad (Praeger Publishers, 2006) and author of Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World (Praeger Publishers, 2003) and The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union (Greenwood Press, 1998).