Tag: France

  • Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy The American Historical Review 2005 Volume 110, Number 2 Saliha Belmessous, Research Fellow of History University of Syndey Although the idea of race is increasingly being historicized, its emergence in the context of French colonization remains shadowy. This is despite the fact that colonization was…

  • The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born Joseph Bologne, was the son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the island of Guadeloupe. The story of his improbable rise in French society, his life as a famous fencer, celebrated violinist-composer and conductor, and later commander of a colored regiment in the French Revolution, should,…

  • The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean Duke University Press May 2005 408 pages 19 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3453-4, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3453-8 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3465-8, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3465-1 Doris Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s…

  • Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature University of Exeter Press 2001 292 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780859896498 BIC Code: 1HFD, 2ADF, 3JF, 3JH, 3JJ Roger Little Between Totem and Taboo picks its way judiciously through a minefield of prejudice, myth and stereotypes.  It is the first book to explore the literary…

  • Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848 McGill-Queen’s University Press 2003-08-20 264 pages 6 x 9 15 drawings Cloth ISBN: (0773525807) 9780773525801 Martin S. Staum, Professor of History University of Calgary An examination of techniques used by scholarly societies to classify people that constructed the image of an inferior “Other” to promote…

  • Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies Comparative Studies in Society and History Volume 51, Issue 2 (April 2009) pages 314-343 DOI: 10.1017/S0010417509000140 David M. Pomfret, Associate Professor The University of Hong Kong Sexual relationships between European men and indigenous women produced racially mixed offspring in all of Europe’s empires. Recent…

  • The One-Drop Rule in Reverse? Interracial Marriages in Napoleonic and Restoration France Law and History Review Volume 27, Number 3 Fall 2009 University of Illinois Jennifer Heuer, Associate Professor Department of History University of Massachusetts at Amherst In the early nineteenth century, an obscure rural policeman petitioned the French government with an unusual story.  Charles…

  • Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique University of Pennsylvania Press July 2009 312 pages 6 x 9; 7 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4172-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8122-2227-2 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0356-1 Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Associate Professor of History Texas A & M University From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France’s Atlantic empire.…