Harmand, Jules. Domination et Colonisation. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1910. First Edition.
Floral print hardcover with a red leather spine title, 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches, small ding in the cloth on the front joint, old repair at hinge behind tp, tight. 370 pp. plus publisher's catalogue. Good. Hardcover. [626]
One of the Bibliotheque de Philosophie scientifique series.
Francois Jules Harmand (1845-1921), French naval physician, natural scientist, explorer and colonial administrator in Southeast Asia.
"Harmand's major oeuvre however, was a political work, Domination et Colonisation, published in 1910. An influential tome, it championed indirect rule and argued against assimilation. He was also against Western education for the subjects of colonies in Asia and Africa, claiming that advanced scientific learning was unsuited to their minds, which he considered less advanced evolutionarily to those of the European." - unsigned entry at JSTOR.