France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The Fre
The essays in Nationalizing Empires challenge the dichotomy between empire and nation state that for decades has dominated historiography. The authors center th
A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in Africa As the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember
This translation of the Introduction to Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the peri