Colonial expansion was foreclosed by ideology and prior European division of the world

Evidence

De Gaulle was now determined to get rid of the “Algerian problem” at the earliest possible date. Like Henry Kissinger with Vietnam in 1973, he was a man in a hurry. Nothing else mattered. “Francisation”, “association”, all such idealistic formulae had long since been abandoned; now any claim to the Sahara must be sacrificed, and the best deal possible accepted for the pieds noirs. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1543 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Escalating domestic costs force colonial powers to abandon ideological colonial formulas — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1543; European colonial dominion expanded from 35 to 85 percent of Earth’s surface; Europe described the New World using its own preexisting categories and frameworks

Related

• Escalating domestic costs force colonial powers to abandon ideological colonial formulas (similarity 0.91)
• State cost-cutting drove the Indies administration’s turn to rural reform colonies (similarity 0.86)
• De Gaulle abandoned the Sahara as an artificial construction in September 1961. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial military dominance ceased to be decisive in Algeria’s war. (similarity 0.79)
• A liberal colonia could have kept Europeans in independent Algeria. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.78)
• Any social revolution in Algeria required breaking colonial ties first (similarity 0.78)
• Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Escalating domestic costs force colonial powers to abandon ideological colonial formulas #contradicts (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1543