This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it co

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The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of t

This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has pla