Vichy in the tropics : Pâetain's national revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-1944

This book examines the role of the Vichy regime in bringing about profound changes in the French colonial empire after World War II.

In the war's aftermath, the French colonial system began to break down.

The book traces the introduction of an integralist ideology of "National Revolution" to the French colonial realm, shedding new light on the nature of the Vichy regime, on the diversity of French colonialism, and on the beginnings of decolonization.