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Alan Forrest

The Death of the French Atlantic

Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution

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The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power.The first was war, especially war at sea against France's most consistent enemy and commercial rival in the eighteenth century, Great Britain. A series of colonial wars, from the Seven Years' War and the War of American Independence to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars did much to drive France out of the North Atlantic.The second was anti-slavery and the rise of a new moral conscience which challenge… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-257073-4
  • EAN: 9780192570734
  • Produktnummer: 33439568
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'526 KB
  • Abbildungen: 6 black and white maps

Über den Autor


Alan Forrest is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York. He has published widely on the history of the French Revolution and Empire, and on the history of war. His publications include Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002); The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory (2009), Napoleon (2011), and most recently Waterloo (2015), a study of thebattle and its place in public memory. He is currently preparing (as general editor) the three-volume Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars.

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