The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution

by Alan Forrest

The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power.

The first was war, especially war at sea against France's most consistent enemy and commercial rival in the eighteenth century, Great Britain. A series of colonial wars, from the Seven Years' War and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199568952
• ISBN13: 9780199568956
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"