French Colonialism: From the Ancien Régime to the Present

by Leonard V. Smith

France had the second largest empire in the world after Britain, but one with very different origins and purposes. Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes. Beginning in the early modern period, a vast mercantile empire based on furs and fish in the New World and sugar cultivated by the enslaved in the Caribbean rose and fell. At intervals thereafter, the French...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108799159
• ISBN13: 9781108799157
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"