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Alan Forrest, Atlantique, Bordeaux, Colonies, Esclavage, Nantes, Napoléon
Parution le 30 janvier. Voir sur le site de l’éditeur Oxford University Press.
Alan Forrest Eexamines the dramatic decline of France’s Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution;
…Shows how three major forces – war, revolution, and anti-slavery – led to France’s loss of her richest Caribbean colony, Saint-Domingue;
…Draws on the individual testimonies of merchants, planters, and slaves across the Atlantic world;
…Concludes by looking at the uneasy memory of the slave trade in France’s Atlantic ports, a memory that has left an indelible mark on race relations in France today;
…Places the French Atlantic cities like Nantes and Bordeaux in a global/transnational context, thus making a contribution to a broader Atlantic history as much as to French history of the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.
