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France and the world

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A critical introduction to the emerging field of ‘France and the world’, analysing France’s extraterritorial relationships across the modern era through conceptually grounded case studies and a syn...
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  • 09 February 2027
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‘France and the world’ has been evoked in course titles, job descriptions, conference themes, even a recent French bestseller. This volume offers a first critical engagement with this emergent but as-yet little theorized field. A state-of the-field introduction and seven conceptually sophisticated and readable case studies explore a wide range of extraterritorial entanglements, both formal and informal, that have defined France and its place in the world across the modern era. Together, these contributions and an afterword by Lynn Hunt propose a more elastic framework of analysis that recognizes and accounts for reciprocal political, commercial, religious, and cultural relationships playing out at a variety of scales, both in the metropole and across the globe.
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Price: $140.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
Publication Date: 09 February 2027
ISBN: 9781807073497
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism
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Lauren R. Clay is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University
Jennifer Sessions is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia

Introduction: Mapping France and the world — Lauren R. Clay and Jennifer Sessions

Part I: Mapping scales: Local, regional, transnational, global
1 Vietnamese women, Vietnamese demons, and the globalisation of French Catholicism in the seventeenth century — Keith Luria
2 Sugar, science, slavery and the spaces of Dutrône La Couture’s Précis sur la canne (1790) — Gene Ogle
3 Scripting revolutionary terror: France, 1793 and China, 1968 — Paul Hanson

Part II: Mapping identities: Colonists and minorities, nations and empires
4 ‘Ce Vaillant Petit Peuple’: France, Algeria, and the Boer war — Jennifer Sessions
5 On the margins: The minority question in France — Laird Boswell

Part III: Mapping relations: Races, economies, and geopolitics
6 France, Texas, and the geopolitics of race — Raymond Jonas
7 Socialist planning in the era of decolonisation: The missions of Charles Bettelheim — Jacob Collins

Afterword — Lynn A. Hunt