New Studies in European History #: Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire

France in the Americas and Africa

New Studies in European History #: Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire
Pernille Roge
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Exploring the myriad efforts to strengthen colonial empire that unfolded in response to France's imperial crisis in the second half of the eighteenth century, Pernille Roge examines how political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs shaped the recalibration of empire in the Americas and in Africa alongside the intensification of the French Caribbean plantation complex. Emphasising the intellectual contributions of the Economistes (also known as the Physiocrats) to formulate a new colonial doctrine, the book highlights the advent of an imperial discourse of commercial liberalisation, free labour, agricultural development, and civilisation. With her careful documentation of the reciprocal impacts of economic ideas, colonial policy and practices, Roge also details key connections between Ancien Regime colonial innovation and the French Revolution's republican imperial agenda. The result is a novel perspective on the struggles to reinvent colonial empire in the final decades of the Ancien Regime and its influences on the French Revolution and beyond.

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'For some time, historians have been searching for the links between the first and second French colonial Empires. Roge finds a compelling set of answers in the critique of plantation slavery and empire developed by the Physiocrats beginning in the mid eighteenth century.' Paul Cheney, University of Chicago
'This ambitious and original book illuminates the emergence of a new vision of empire in eighteenth-century France, explaining how physiocratic ideas informed colonial policy during and after the French Revolution. Roge's rigorous analysis makes important contributions to the history of political economy as she traces the transition of empire from the Caribbean to Africa.' Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University
'A complete reinterpretation of the dynamics of the French colonial empire. Delving into abundant first-hand material, Roge reveals the true importance of West Africa in rethinking French imperial expansion after the Seven Years' War. She brilliantly bridges the colonial orientations of the Ancien Regime and of the First Republic, revealing the enduring influence of the Physiocrats. A fascinating and successful historical enquiry.' Francois-Joseph Ruggiu, Sorbonne Universite, France
'An elegant and subtle re-interpretation of the ideological origins of modern French imperialism: rather than a product of nineteenth-century republicanism, the book shows France's new imperial project had its roots in Old Regime ideas and practices. The balance between change and continuity and the appreciation of interactions between the imperial centre and the colonial peripheries are remarkable.' David Todd, King's College London
'For some time, historians have been searching for the links between the first and second French colonial Empires. Roge finds a compelling set of answers in the critique of plantation slavery and empire developed by the Physiocrats beginning in the mid eighteenth century.' Paul Cheney, University of Chicago
'This ambitious and original book illuminates the emergence of a new vision of empire in eighteenth-century France, explaining how physiocratic ideas informed colonial policy during and after the French Revolution. Roge's rigorous analysis makes important contributions to the history of political economy as she traces the transition of empire from the Caribbean to Africa.' Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University
'A complete reinterpretation of the dynamics of the French colonial empire. Delving into abundant first-hand material, Roge reveals the true importance of West Africa in rethinking French imperial expansion after the Seven Years' War. She brilliantly bridges the colonial orientations of the Ancien Regime and of the First Republic, revealing the enduring influence of the Physiocrats. A fascinating and successful historical enquiry.' Francois-Joseph Ruggiu, Sorbonne Universite, France
'An elegant and subtle re-interpretation of the ideological origins of modern French imperialism: rather than a product of nineteenth-century republicanism, the book shows France's new imperial project had its roots in Old Regime ideas and practices. The balance between change and continuity and the appreciation of interactions between the imperial centre and the colonial peripheries are remarkable.' David Todd, King's College London
Pernille Roge 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.
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ISBN-13: 9781108716413
Published: 20 Aug 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312

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