Search results
14 hours ago · The workings of modern empire can better be viewed through the lens of gender because gendered hierarchies illuminate broad, intersecting aspects of the colonial project.Community, kinship, household economies, religion, education, sexuality, social engineering, nationalism, and transnational reform movements were all inflected by imperial ...
5 days ago · French colonial Louisiana refers to the first century of permanent European settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans contributed to the development of a complex frontier society at the geographic nexus of the Americas.
1 day ago · Public-Private Colonialism: The French Empire's Touristic Settlement in Ifrane, MoroccoHistory Lecture/PresentationThis project investigates Morocco’s touris...
2 days ago · Napoleon III was a popular monarch who oversaw the modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the French colonial empire, made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, and personally
3 days ago · In December 1941, the empire of Japan joined World War II by invading the European and U.S. colonies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, including French Indochina, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Portuguese Timor, and others.
4 days ago · From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire covered over 10,000,000 km², making it the second-largest empire in the world, surpassed only by the Spanish Empire. This expansion shaped France’s global influence and left a lasting impact on the territories it once ruled.
3 days ago · This unique resource is essential for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations with the region as far back as the early 18th century.
