French Colonization in North Africa

Abstract

In the contest of the western powers of Europe to colonize the New World, France, owing to a mistaken policy, failed completely and saw her flag and sovereignty practically driven back from this hemisphere. The early attempts of Admiral de Coligny to colonize the Huguenots first in Brazil and then in Florida, were, owing to the indifference and even opposition of the French crown, abortive. And in the later effort of the French crown to colonize in Canada and Louisiana, the attempt to bring over the remains of feudalism as opposed to the strong individualism that characterized the English settlers, reinforced by the Hollanders in New Netherlands, the Swedes and the Germans in Pennsylvania, and the Huguenots in Virginia and the Carolinas, doomed the French settlers, in the valley of the Saint Lawrence and at the mouth of the Mississippi, to defeat in their effort to extend their language and supremacy over the continent of North America.

The Historical Roots of Corruption: State Building, Economic Inequality, and Mass Education

“…60 In North Africa, French colonialists were met with resistance, as people often refused to send their children to the handful of schools that emphasized French language and culture and did not permit any instruction in Islam. 61 Spanish colonialism-and to a lesser degree Portuguese rule in Brazil-placed a greater emphasis on providing education (and other services) to the native population than did that of the British and the French. Premo argued that Spanish colonial rule in Peru emphasized education: "[Schools] served as social workshops in which early modern Iberian culture, religion, and political ideologies were reproduced among a colonial populace, and particularly a young colonial populace."…”