HIST 313 - The French Empire: Colonizers and Colonized

3 SS, CD, WR
This advanced colloquium will consider issues of French colonialism since the 18th century. Particular issues include: causes of imperial expansion; slavery in the French empire; imperialism and republican ideology; the role of the colonial army; the wars of decolonization in Southeast Asia and Algeria; immigration to metropolitan France and the origins of French multiculturalism.

Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 12.
Mr. Smith
Next offered 2007-08.

Credits: 3