Eric Jennings teaches history at the University of Toronto. He is completing a book for Perrin (Paris), on Equatorial Africa and Cameroon as the sites of the first French resistance in 1940. His previous works include Imperial Heights: Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina (University of California Press, 2011), Curing the Colonizers (Duke University Press, 2006) and Vichy in the Tropics (Stanford University Press, 2001).