Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire. France in the Americas and Africa, c.1750-1802, Paperback/Pernille Roge

This history of the struggles to regenerate France's colonial empire in the eighteenth century reveals how political economists, colonial administrators and planters shaped the recalibration of empire in the Americas and Africa, unearthing connections between Ancien Regime colonial innovation and the French Revolution's republican imperial agenda. Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Maps; 2 Line drawings, black and white