book chapter
Senegal: France in West Africa
Librairie Hachette et Cie • Paris • Published In 1889 • Pages:
By: Faidherbe, Louis Léon César, Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source describes French relations with the DAMELs of Cayor between 1859 and 1864 when this Wolof kingdom became part of the French colony. The author, a French general and governor of the colony, gives a detailed account of the military operations and the French involvement in the internal politics of this state.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- External relations
- Revolution
- Provinces
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Wolof
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Joan Steffens ; 1964
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1854-1865
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1854-1865
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cayor, Senegal
- NotesAdditional notes
- Louis Faidherbe
- Translation of: Le Sénégal; la France dans l'Afrique Occidentale
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
- Only pages 258-276 of Part 2, 'Emancipation -- Penetration,' are included in this file
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 04014712
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)