Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire France in the Americas and Africa, C. 1750-1802 |
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| Author:
| Røge, Pernille |
| Series title: | New Studies in European History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-108-48313-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2019 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $108.00 |
Book Description:
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This history of the struggles to regenerate France's colonial empire in the eighteenth century reveals how political economists, colonial administrators and planters shaped the recalibration of empire in the Americas and Africa, unearthing connections between Ancien Régime colonial innovation and the French Revolution's republican imperial agenda.
This history of the struggles to regenerate France's colonial empire in the eighteenth century reveals how political economists, colonial administrators and planters shaped the recalibration of empire in the Americas and Africa, unearthing connections between Ancien Régime colonial innovation and the French Revolution's republican imperial agenda.