Ultramarine History of France in the 20th and 21st Centuries

(2.5-3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The intellectual challenge and the historiographic novelty of this course lie in the change of perspective it offers - a contemporary history of France seen from its extra-European extensions which constitute the overseas territories of the Republic. It will thus be a question of revisiting significant moments - social, political, economic and cultural - to grasp the history of national construction in a different way. In this sense, this course is part of the abundant renewal of a history of France, thought beyond the limits of France and articulated to a history of colonial and imperial fact.