Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire - France in the Americas and Africa, C.17501802

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 Regime colonial innovation and the French Revolution's republican imperial agenda.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. A colonial empire in crisis; 2. Empire beyond the mercantile system; 3. Between enslaved territories and overseas provinces; 4. Supplying or supplanting the Americas; 5. A revolutionary crescendo; Conclusion: Ancien Régime legacies.

About the author

Pernille Røge is Assistant Professor of History and convener of the Early Modern Worlds Initiative at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author of numerous articles and book chapters on the eighteenth-century French, Danish, and British colonial empires. She is also co-editor of The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World (2013), with Sophus Reinert, and of the International Review of Social History's special issue on 'Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (Seventeenth–Nineteenth Centuries)', with Pepijn Brandon and Niklas Frykman.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Pernille (University of Pittsburgh) Rge, Pernille Roge, Pernille (University of Pittsburgh) Roge, Pernille Røge
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108483131
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48313-1
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, General and world history, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards