History of the French Empire

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Liberty, equality, fraternity: what does this revolutionary motto mean from a colonial perspective? France, often characterized as the country of human rights, also has a long imperial history that sheds light on key contradictions of modernity: democracy and populism, citizenship and inequality, colorblindness and racism. Countries as different as Canada, Haiti, Algeria, Vietnam, Senegal, India and even the United States share a common French colonial past: how did these French roots of globalization define the world as we know it?