Pernille RÃ ge (University of Pittsburgh)

Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

This history of the struggles to regenerate France's colonial empire in the eighteenth century reveals how political economists, colonial administrators and planters shaped the recalibration of empire in the Americas and Africa, unearthing connections between Ancien RÃ gime colonial innovation and the French Revolution's republican imperial agenda.

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Produktdetails

• New Studies in European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781108716413
• ISBN-10: 1108716415
• Artikelnr.: 59993505

Autorenporträt

Pernille Røge is Assistant Professor of History and convener of the Early Modern Worlds Initiative at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author of numerous articles and book chapters on the eighteenth-century French, Danish, and British colonial empires. She is also co-editor of The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World (2013), with Sophus Reinert, and of the International Review of Social History's special issue on 'Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries)', with Pepijn Brandon and Niklas Frykman.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. A colonial empire in crisis
2. Empire beyond the mercantile system
3. Between enslaved territories and overseas provinces
4. Supplying or supplanting the Americas
5. A revolutionary crescendo
Conclusion: Ancien Régime legacies.