Patrick Boucheron - France in the World: A New Global History

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France in the World

France in the World pushes against the traditional narrative of an eternal France as a linear path of national development, from the Gauls to the Revolution and beyond. Instead, this inclusive history shows how much what we call France has been molded by interactions with the world. By recovering this longue dure diversity, it offers both hope and suggestions for how to think about Frances continued dynamism.

EMMANUELLE SAADA, author of Empires Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies

We often say that the past is a foreign country. France in the World brilliantly shows us that understanding the past of any country requires insistent rethinking of what foreign means. The histories in this collection render visible the often starkly political reasons certain minor distinctions are transformed into forbidding walls. Boucheron and company have pioneered an approach to French history that we from the other side of the Atlantic or the Channel need to understand the world in which we live and comprehend how we got here.

TODD SHEPARD, author of The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France

This sweeping, ambitious volume explores Frances place in the world from the dawn of humanity to the twenty-first century. Rather than a superficial overview of French history, the book offers dozens of in-depth snapshots of key moments that shaped both France and its relationship to the wider world. Beautifully translated from the original French, France in the World will be of profound interest to readers of French history and world history, revealing the events and forces that have made the two inextricably linked.

BRETT RUSHFORTH, author of Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France

Copyright ditions du Seuil, 2017

English translation copyright Other Press, 2019

Originally published in 2017 as Histoire mondiale de la France

by ditions du Seuil, Paris

Production editor: Yvonne E. Crdenas

Text designer: Julie Fry

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Names: Boucheron, Patrick, editor. | Delalande, Nicolas, editor. | Mazel, Florian, editor. | Potin, Yann, editor. | Singaravlou, Pierre, editor. | Gerson, Stphane, editor. | Fagan, Teresa Lavender, translator. | Kuntz, Jane, translator. | Pernsteiner, Alexis, translator. | Roberts, Anthony F., 1950 translator. | Wood, Willard, translator.

Title: France in the world : a new global history / edited by Patrick Boucheron with Nicolas Delalande, Florian Mazel, Yann Potin, and Pierre Singaravlou; English-language edition edited by Stphane Gerson; translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan, Jane Kuntz, Alexis Pernsteiner, Anthony Roberts, and Willard Wood.

Other titles: Histoire mondiale de la France.

English. Description: New York : Other Press, [2019] | Originally published in 2017 as Histoire mondiale de la France by ditions du Seuil, Paris Title verso. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018042723 (print) | LCCN 2018053711 (ebook) | ISBN 9781590519424 (ebook) | ISBN 9781590519417 (pbk.) Subjects: LCSH : France History.

Classification: LCC DC 17 (ebook) | LCC DC 17. H 57413 2019 (print) | DDC 944 dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018042723

Ebook ISBN 9781590519424

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