Économistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa, c. 1750-1802

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In this talk, Pernille Røge will discuss her book of the same title. The presentation will include material about Senegal, Guyana, Saint-Domingue, and Guadeloupe that did not make it into the book.

Pernille Røge is Associate Professor of French and French Colonial History at the University of Pittsburgh. Her scholarly interests focus on interconnections between eighteenth-century political economic theory and colonial policy and practice. Her publications on the French, British, and Danish colonial empires have appeared in edited volumes and peer reviewed journals, including Dix-huitième Siècle, Slavery and Abolition, Atlantic Studies, and History of European Ideas. She is co-editor of a collection of essays entitled The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and a special issue of IRSH entitled Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700-1850) (2019).