Several hundred documents and items revealing the names and other details of victims of slavery in France’s colonial empire is being added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. This latest ...

The artifacts were French, but the gems were not. Their exotic routes to Paris run through the shadows of empire — an ...

A tall, blond woman in black and a small Asian girl stand at the prow of a gilded barge moving slowly over a wide, jungle-lined river. The woman is Catherine Deneuve, star of the 1992 movie "Indochine ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract There is substantial debate over the colonial origins of divergence within the Americas. In this debate, the French Empire has been largely ...

Like a kind of Gallic Colonel Blimp, Paris’ conservative Le Figaro (circ. 390,000) takes French imperial prestige with deep seriousness. To awaken the same feeling in other Frenchmen, Le Figaro ...

Owen White is a historian of imperialism and colonialism with a particular interest in modern France and its empire. He grew up in the U.K., receiving his B.A. from the University of Exeter and his ...

Desiring Whiteness is an award-winning book by historian Caroline Séquin. It explores the intertwined histories of commercial sex work and racial politics in France and the French colonial empire, ...

One of modern history’s major empires is falling apart right now, right before our eyes. Yet precious few in the media have reported on this extraordinary event, much less offered any analysis of its ...

Desiring Whiteness is an award-winning book by historian Caroline Séquin. It explores the intertwined histories of commercial sex work and racial politics in France and the French colonial empire, ...