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30 paź 2024 · Western colonialism - French Empire, Imperialism, Colonization: France probably could have become the leading European colonial power in the 17th and 18th centuries. It had the largest population and wealth, the best army while Louis XIV ruled, and, for a time in his reign, the strongest navy.
21 mar 2024 · The controversy surrounding the publication of Patrick Boucheron’s bestselling edited volume The Global History of France in 2017 marked the arrival of transnational history from Anglophone scholar...
11 cze 2011 · For almost a century and a half France maintained a substantial colonial empire in Africa, stretching from the Maghreb through the Western and Central sub-Saharan regions. Though direct rule ended in the early 1960’s, French influence over its former possessions continued.
21 kwi 2020 · The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in the history of the French Empire. For the first time, the war effort required that large numbers of colonial subjects come to the metropole itself.
14 gru 2023 · The task is to explore some of the ways in which the imperial past matters in the present; that is, to consider how colonialism in the past impacts societies, social relations, institutions, economies, and polities today by uncovering the precise historical processes to which terms that we causally use – like “legacy”, “vestige,” or ...
3 mar 2021 · Rather than as a continuous process, French imperial expansion is better understood as a succession of four distinct empires: a Bourbon mercantilist empire until 1789, a messianic European empire in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, a global informal empire in the nineteenth century, and a republican territorial empire after 1880.
28 maj 2019 · On the eve of World War 1, France and Britain controlled most colonies in the world, and France possessed the largest Empire in African history. There has been a long debate, backed on historical research to discuss the relationships between imperialism and colonialism.
