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  3. Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2014
Print publication year:
2014
Online ISBN:
9781107707498
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107707498
Subjects:
Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Global History
Series:
New Studies in European History
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Book description

This is an innovative study of how race and empire transformed French republican citizenship in the early Third Republic. Elizabeth Heath integrates the histories of the wine-producing department of Aude and the sugar-producing colony of Guadeloupe to reveal the ways in which empire was integral to the Third Republic's ability to stabilize a republican regime that began to unravel in an age of economic globalization. She shows how global economic factors shaped negotiations between local citizens and the Third Republic over the responsibilities of the Republic to its citizens leading to the creation of two different and unequal forms of citizenship that became constitutive of the interwar imperial nation-state and the French welfare state. Her findings shed important new light on the tensions within republicanism between ideals of liberty and equality and on the construction of race as a meaningful social category at a foundational moment in French history.

Awards

Winner of the 2015 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize, French Colonial Historical Society

Reviews

‘The story Heath tells about an earlier moment of globalization is an important lesson for our times, when arguments about agricultural standards are simultaneously about quality and about supply, competitiveness and price, not to mention our way of life … Read this book. Its story may be about France, but is lesson is universal.’

Mary Dewhurst Lewis Source: Reviews and Critical Commentary (councilforeuropeanstudies.org/critcom)

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