New Books in French Colonial History

New Books in French Colonial History

17th- and 18th-Century Americas

Hübner, Andreas.  Die Côte des Allemands: Eine Migrationsgeschichte im Louisiana des 18.  (Transcript Verlag, 2017).

Johnson, Erica R.  Philanthropy and Race in the Haitian Revolution.  (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018).

Jung, Patrick J.  The Misunderstood Mission of Jean Nicolet: Uncovering the Story of the 1634 Journey.  (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2018).

Vidal, Cécile.  Caribbean New Orleans : Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society  (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

19th- and 20th-Century Asia

Aso, Mitch.  Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975.  (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

Muckle, Adrian and Isabelle Merle.  L'indigénat. Genèses dans l'empire français. Pratiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie.  (CNRS Editions, 2019).

Ouahes, Idir.  Syria and Lebanon Under the French Mandate: Cultural Imperialism and the Workings of Empire.  (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2018).

Shibata, Yuko.  Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics.  (University of Hawaii Press, 2018).

Vann, Michael G. (author) and Liz Clarke (illustrator).  The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam.  (Oxford University Press, 2018).

20th-Century Africa

Labrune-Badianne, Céline and Etienne Smith.  Les hussards noirs de la colonie. Instituteurs africains et petites patries en AOF (1913-1959).  (Karthala, 2018).

Pearson, Jessica.  The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa.  (Harvard University Press, 2018).

Stenner, David.  Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and the Postcolonial State.  (Stanford University, 2019).

Tiquet, Romain.  Travail forcé et mobilisation de la main-d'oeuvre au Sénégal (années 1920-1960)  (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2019).

Heritage, Historiography, and Memory

Coslett, Daniel E. (ed.)  Neocolonialism and Built Heritage: Echoes of Empire in Africa, Asia, and Europe.  (Routledge:  forthcoming 2020).

Kilroy-Marac, Katie.  An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic.  (University of California Press, 2019).

Stanard, Matthew G.  European Overseas Empire, 1879-1999: A Short History (Wiley, 2018).

Stanard, Matthew G. The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock:  Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium. (Leuven University Press, 2019).