دانلود کتاب Rock of Contention: Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945

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Contents\nAcknowledgements\nList of Maps and Figures\nIntroduction: The Franco-American Mésentente\n1. The Free French and the Americans before Pearl Harbor\nFrance under Siege\nDe Gaulle, the Formation of the Free French, and Colonial Resistance\nDisaster at Dakar\nThe Empire Defense Council and the Allies in the Tropics\nFree-French Representation in the United States\n2. The New Caledonian Rally to the Free French\nIntroduction\nDisunity in Local Allegiances and Foreign Interests\nThe Political Showdown Begins\nThe New Caledonian Coup\nPro-Vichy Partisans\n3. New Caledonia in Limbo: Preparing for War in the Pacific\nLocal and Foreign Anxieties over New Caledonia’s Defense\nDe Gaulle’s Desire for Centralized Control and the Brunot Mission\nThe d’Argenlieu Mission\n4. Going to Pieces: The 1942 Riot\nIntroduction\nThe Americans Arrive: January–March ‘42\nNew Caledonia in Political and Military Crisis: April ‘42\nThings Go Awry: May ‘42\nCalm is Restored but, Mésentente Sets In: May–July ‘42\n5. The Rooster and the Eagle: Governor Montchamp, Admiral Halsey, and the American Occupation\nIntroduction\nAdmiral Halsey’s Arrival\nGuadalcanal, the Solomons Campaign, and the Expansion of U.S. Military Presence: August ‘42–August ‘43\nThe Governor’s Graveyard: Montchamp, d’Argenlieu, and Vergès\n6. Governor Laigret and the American Economic and Cultural Challenge\nLocal Politics and the Arrival of Governor Laigret\nGrievances and Complaints against the Americans\nLaigret’s Anti-Americanist Campaign and Increasing Mésentente\nAmerican Ambitions for New Caledonia?\n7. Roosevelt and de Gaulle: Conflicting Visions of a Postwar World Order\nAnticolonialism and Yankee Imperialism\nAnti-Americanism and the French Empire\nAmerican Security and the Fate of the French Colonies in the Pacific\nLiberation, 1944\n8. From Combat Base to Rest and Rehabilitation Area: The American Departure\nGovernor Tallec\nAutonomist Sentiment and Social and Labor Unrest\nAmerican Materialism, Entertainment and the Issue of Withdrawal\nAnti-Communism versus Anticolonialism\nConclusion: V-J Day and Postwar Assessments, Accounts and Balances\nBibliography\nIndex