Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire : France in the Americas and Africa, c.1750-1802 (New Studies in European History)

Røge, Pernille

Cambridge University Press（2019/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 310 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108483131
• DDC分類 960.09171244

Full Description

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 Røge 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, Røge also details key connections between Ancien Régime 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 Régime and its influences on the French Revolution and beyond.

Contents

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.