To Be Free and French - Citizenship in France''s Atlantic Empire

Informationen zum Autor Lorelle Semley is an Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, where she teaches courses in African history, the African diaspora, and gender studies. Her research has been facilitated by fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library, the W. E. B. Dubois Research Institute, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. Research grants have supported travel to Benin, Brazil, France, Great Britain, Martinique, and Senegal. Previous works include Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town (2010) and articles for Law and History Review, Radical History Review, and Gender and History. Klappentext A new vision of French citizenship from the perspective of Africans and Antilleans living in the colonies and in France. Zusammenfassung An ambitious new vision of French citizenship from the perspective of Africans and Antilleans living in the colonies and mainland France. Lorelle Semley explores the ways in which these colonial subjects used French democratic ideals to demand rights and redefine the meanings of freedom and 'Frenchness'. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Preface: coincidental crossings; Acknowledgments; Part I. Revolutionary Foundations: Prologue: citizens of the world; 1. To live and die, free and French; 2. Signares before citizens; Part II. Colonial Constructions: 3. When Blacks broke the chains in the 'Little Paris of the Antilles'; 4. The trans-African origins of Porto-Novo; 5. An 'evolution revolution' in Paris; Part III. Planning after Empire: 6. A more perfect French Union; Epilogue: the art of citizenship; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lorelle Semley, Lorelle (College of the Holy Cross Semley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107101142
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10114-2
• No. of pages: 382
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir; Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Civil rights & citizenship, Black & Asian Studies, Civics and citizenship