State cost-cutting drove the Indies administration’s turn to rural reform colonies

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial agrarian reform drew blueprints from European penal agricultural colonies; Escalating domestic costs force colonial powers to abandon ideological colonial formulas — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1543; Epistemic confusion itself characterized colonial governance across the Indies

Related

• Escalating domestic costs force colonial powers to abandon ideological colonial formulas (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial expansion was foreclosed by ideology and prior European division of the world (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Colonial agrarian reform drew blueprints from European penal agricultural colonies #corroborates (0.75)
• Escalating domestic costs force colonial powers to abandon ideological colonial formulas #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1543
• Epistemic confusion itself characterized colonial governance across the Indies #qualifies (0.30)