Greater France

Robert Aldrich is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. His works on colonial history include Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005), Cultural Encounters and Homosexuality in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity (2014), and Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (2018). He is the co-author (with John Connell) of The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited (2020), and co-editor (with Kirsten McKenzie) of The Routledge History of Western Empires (2014) and co-editor (with Cindy McCreery) of Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires (2016), Royals on Tour: Politics, Pageantry and Colonialism (2018), and Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia (2020).

'At last, a textbook for a course I've been teaching for 4 years. Well researched, coherent and informative. Excellent undergraduate text.' - Paul Smith, University of Nottingham 'This is an excellent introductory survey of French colonialism. Exceptionally well informed and written in a clear, accessible style, it provides a highly readable account of French colonialism...can be recommended with confidence.' - Tony Chafer, University of Portsmouth

• List of MapsPrefaceIntroduction: Writing about the ColoniesThe First Overseas EmpireThe Conquest of Empire: Africa and the Indian OceanThe Conquest of Empire: Asia, the Pacific and the AustraliaRegions Ideas of EmpireThe French OverseasThe Uses of EmpireThe French and the 'Natives'Colonial Culture in FranceColonial Nationalism and Deconolisation After the EmpireNotes and ReferencesBibliographical EssayIndex.