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Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes. This narrative history recounts the unique origins and purposes of the French empire, through to the numberless traces that remain both in the former colonies and in today's French Republic.

Table of Contents
Introduction: why did France have an empire?; 1. The rise and fall of the Mercantilist Empire; 2. Reinventions of the empire in the 19th century; 3. The Mission Civilsatrice to 1914; 4. Empire and the world wars: 1914–1945; 5. Decolonization: 1945–1962; 6. The empire after the empire: 1962–present.

French Colonialism

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 7 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9781108799157
      978-1108799157
      ISBN-10 1108799159
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      History Colonialism and imperialism European history: medieval period, middle ages

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes. This narrative history recounts the unique origins and purposes of the French empire, through to the numberless traces that remain both in the former colonies and in today's French Republic.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: why did France have an empire?; 1. The rise and fall of the Mercantilist Empire; 2. Reinventions of the empire in the 19th century; 3. The Mission Civilsatrice to 1914; 4. Empire and the world wars: 1914–1945; 5. Decolonization: 1945–1962; 6. The empire after the empire: 1962–present.

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