Rock of Contention : : Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945 / / Kim Munholland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Munholland, Kim,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

What went wrong in Free French relations with Americans during World War Two? Two peoples, presumably sharing a common cause in a war to defeat the axis powers, often found themselves locked in bitter disputes that exposed fundamental differences in outlook and intentions, creating a profound misund...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Maps and Figures
• Introduction: The Franco-American Mésentente
• 1. The Free French and the Americans before Pearl Harbor
• France under Siege
• De Gaulle, the Formation of the Free French, and Colonial Resistance
• Disaster at Dakar
• The Empire Defense Council and the Allies in the Tropics
• Free-French Representation in the United States
• 2. The New Caledonian Rally to the Free French
• Introduction
• Disunity in Local Allegiances and Foreign Interests
• The Political Showdown Begins
• The New Caledonian Coup
• Pro-Vichy Partisans
• 3. New Caledonia in Limbo: Preparing for War in the Pacific
• Local and Foreign Anxieties over New Caledonia’s Defense
• De Gaulle’s Desire for Centralized Control and the Brunot Mission
• The d’Argenlieu Mission
• 4. Going to Pieces: The 1942 Riot
• Introduction
• The Americans Arrive: January–March ‘42
• New Caledonia in Political and Military Crisis: April ‘42
• Things Go Awry: May ‘42
• Calm is Restored but, Mésentente Sets In: May–July ‘42
• 5. The Rooster and the Eagle: Governor Montchamp, Admiral Halsey, and the American Occupation
• Introduction
• Admiral Halsey’s Arrival
• Guadalcanal, the Solomons Campaign, and the Expansion of U.S. Military Presence: August ‘42–August ‘43
• The Governor’s Graveyard: Montchamp, d’Argenlieu, and Vergès
• 6. Governor Laigret and the American Economic and Cultural Challenge
• Local Politics and the Arrival of Governor Laigret
• Grievances and Complaints against the Americans
• Laigret’s Anti-Americanist Campaign and Increasing Mésentente
• American Ambitions for New Caledonia?
• 7. Roosevelt and de Gaulle: Conflicting Visions of a Postwar World Order
• Anticolonialism and Yankee Imperialism
• Anti-Americanism and the French Empire
• American Security and the Fate of the French Colonies in the Pacific
• Liberation, 1944
• 8. From Combat Base to Rest and Rehabilitation Area: The American Departure
• Governor Tallec
• Autonomist Sentiment and Social and Labor Unrest
• American Materialism, Entertainment and the Issue of Withdrawal
• Anti-Communism versus Anticolonialism
• Conclusion: V-J Day and Postwar Assessments, Accounts and Balances
• Bibliography
• Index