Bøger i France Overseas: Studies in Em serien

French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history.

From Near and Far takes a transnational approach to the history of France by considering the many ways in which people and places beyond the conventionally accepted borders of the nation shaped its life.

Centered around a massive ecological disaster in which eight hundred thousand Algerians died between 1865 and 1872, Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria explores how repeated performance of divisions across an expansive ecosystem produced modern imperialism in nineteenth-century Algeria.

Spencer D. Segalla examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores how environmental catastrophes impacted the dissolution of France’s empire in North Africa.

By examining their lives in conjunction with the metaphor of the voyage, Podruchny reveals not only the everyday lives of her subjects but underscores their resonance in history as well as in the Métis communities they helped found.