Book contents
- Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire
- New Studies in European History
- Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A Colonial Empire in Crisis
- Chapter 2 Empire beyond the Mercantile System
- Chapter 3 Between Enslaved Territories and Overseas Provinces
- Chapter 4 Supplying or Supplanting the Americas
- Chapter 5 A Revolutionary Crescendo
- Conclusion Ancien Régime Legacies
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion - Ancien Régime Legacies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2019
- Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire
- New Studies in European History
- Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A Colonial Empire in Crisis
- Chapter 2 Empire beyond the Mercantile System
- Chapter 3 Between Enslaved Territories and Overseas Provinces
- Chapter 4 Supplying or Supplanting the Americas
- Chapter 5 A Revolutionary Crescendo
- Conclusion Ancien Régime Legacies
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Conclusion traces the fruits of Ancien Régime imperial innovation and colonial experimentation into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to establish a new perspective on how continuity, innovation, and rupture conditioned the broader narrative of French colonial empire. It looks at the long road to the creation of the DOM-TOM (départements et territoires d’outre-mer) as well as at the ideological underpinnings of French imperial incursions into West and North Africa. Based on this brief overview, it proposes a non-linear history French colonial empire.
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- Economistes and the Reinvention of EmpireFrance in the Americas and Africa, c.1750–1802, pp. 246 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019