France's Lost Empires

France's Lost Empires brings together ten essays that collectively investigate the historical, cultural, and political legacies of French colonialism and, specifically, the endings of the French empire(s). Combining analyses of three "lost" territories (Canada, India, and Saint Dominigue) of the "first" French colonial empire, that of the Ancien Regime , with investigations of the decolonization of the "new" colonies of the "second" French overseas empire (specifically in North Africa), the essa