Providing an up-to-date synthesis of the history of an extraordinary nation--one that has
been shrouded in myths, many of its own making--France and Its Empire Since 1870 seeks …

In the early nineteenth century, an obscure rural policeman petitioned the French
government with an unusual story. Charles Fanaye had served with Napoleon's armies in …

This study interrogates how the French empire was imagined in three literary
representations of French colonialism: the conquest of Tahiti, and the established colonial …

This article analyses the connections between political and economic discourses related to
the reframing of the European geopolitical space and the growing relevance attached to the …

Abstract By separating Alexandre Dumas's works from the more elite “world of letters” and
reclassifying them as unsophisticated and suitable to the more rudimentary educational …

Cet article examine pourquoi un si grand nombre d? historiens américains travaillent sur
l'histoire française et quels sont les résultats scientifiques de cette attention portée à la …

This dissertation argues that naturalism was not literature's only response to evolutionary
theory. Instead, I propose that the fantastic natural, a subversive literary mode, challenged …

Comité de Lyon. Émigration des vaudois français en Algérie: Rapport présenté aux
souscripteurs par le comité protestant de Lyon. Lyon: H. Georg, 1883. Commission de la …

Imperial nation-states of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sought to fix bodies–
particularly female bodies–in a specific place and race. National and colonial modernity tied …