Owen White
Owen White (born 20th century in Great Britain ) is a British historian , author and university professor .
Life
White holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Exeter, England, and a PhD in history from the University of Oxford . Today (2016) he teaches at the Faculty of History at the US University of Delaware in Newark (Delaware) .
White became known through his books and magazine articles on the colonial history of French West Africa .
Publications
- Children of the French Empire: Miscegentaion and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895-1960 . Oxford University Press, Oxford, England 1999, ISBN 0-19-820819-7 .
- with JP Daughton: In God's Empire. French Missionaries and the Modern World . Oxford University Press, Oxford, England 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-539644-7 .
- The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires. Volume I: Social Organization . Ashgate, Abingon, Oxfordshire, England 2013.
- Magazines
- Priests into Frenchmen? Breton Missionaries in Côte d'Ivoire , 1896–1918. In: French Colonial History. 2007, pp. 111-121.
- Networking: Freemasons and the Colonial State in French West Africa, 1895-1914. In: French History. March 2005, Oxford University Press.
- Book review
- Gary Wilder: The French Imperial Nation-State: Négritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars . University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2005, ISBN 0-226-89768-0 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | White, Owen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British modern historian, author and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United Kingdom |