The Casablanca Connection

French Colonial Policy, 1936–1943

William A Hoisington Jr.

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781469654621
  9780807815748
• eBook ISBN:
  9781469654638
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

The Casablanca Connection examines France’s colonial policy in Morocco from the Popular Front to the end of the Vichy regime in North Africa, relating it to overall French imperial policy and placing it in a European and world context. At the center of this study is General Charles Noguès, resident general of Morocco from 1936 to 1943, who, during this period, provided the protectorate with purpose, authority, direction, and continuity. Noguès restored the precepts of colonial rule established in Morocco twenty-four years earlier by Marshal Hubert Lyautey, France’s most illustrious soldier-administrator. Nogues’s accomplishments made Morocco stronger for France than it had been in a decade. This “French peace,” however, was disturbed by the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and Noguès’s well-intentioned but misguided decisions during this time ended his career amidst charges of collaboration and anti-Allied sentiment. Nevertheless, William A. Hoisington Jr. argues, Noguès had interpreted Lyautey’s lessons with talent and originality.

Originally published in 1984.

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Index

Abda-Doukkala Plain, 91

Abd el-Aziz, Sultan Moulay, 281 (n. 30)

Abdeljalil, Omar, 42–43, 68, 72

Abd el-Krim, Mohamed, 18–19, 21, 23–24, 111

Abetz, Ambassador Otto, 209, 213

Achir, Allal ben, 68

Acquaviva, Marcel, 278 (n. 75)

Afrika Korps, 214

Agadir, 14, 133, 136–37, 141, 144, 192, 202–3, 217, 228

Agriculture, European, 78, 109, 112–14, 117–18, 135

Aïn Aïcha, 20, 23

Aïn Maatouf, 23

Algeciras, Act of (1906), 26, 110–11, 113, 118, 123–36 passim, 150, 194, 246

Algeria, 8–11, 13, 19, 21, 35, 94, 104, 106–8, 117, 131–32, 151, 166, 170, 172–73, 192, 200, 214, 229, 269 (n. 18), 290 (n. 56)

Algero-Libyan border, 173

Algero-Moroccan border, 83, 153; border regions, 13, 24–25

Algiers, 25, 152, 162, 166–70, 172, 175, 177, 179–82, 184, 186–88, 194, 207, 210, 213, 216, 219, 224–39 passim

Allies. See Great Britain; United States

Alsace-Lorraine, 15

Amin, 95

Anglo-French declaration on Egypt and Morocco (1904), 124

Anglo-Italian “gentleman’s agreement” (1937) , 139, 144

Anglo-Moroccan commercial treaty (1938), 125–30

Anglo-Moroccan Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (1856), 126, 265 (n. 45)

Annoual, 18

ANTON (German occupation of France), 224

Arabs, 30–31, 35, 39–40, 149, 221, 234, 239

Araquistain, Luis, 270 (n. 33)

Army of Africa, 237

Army of the Levant, 168

Arslan, Chekib, 35

Artisans, Moroccan, 41, 49, 52–54, 75, 79, 98, 245; artisan corporations, 8, 44, 76–77, 93–98, 100, 103

Assimilationism, 5, 109

Association des Anciens Élèves du Collège Musulman de Fès, 52

Association des Étudiants Musulmans Nord-Africains en France, 32, 65

Associationism, 5

Atlantic Charter, 243

Atlas mountains, 24–25, 60, 89, 133, 202, 220, 222

Axis. See Germany; Italy

el-Baghdadi, Pasha Mohammed, 32, 34, 37

Balearic Islands, 53, 126, 139

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Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• One. The Lyautey Touch
• Two. The Revolt of the Cities
• Three. The Economics of Pacification
• Four. The Colonial Question
• Five. Three Tangled Zones
• Six. The Fall of France and the Vichy Change
• Seven. The American Road to Morocco
• Eight. Casablanca and Beyond
• Nine. The Lyautey Legacy
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index