France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view

As French police race to track where the Louvre's stolen crown jewels have gone, a growing chorus wants a brighter light on ...
University of Toronto

Anything but plain: U of T researcher digs into vanilla's rich history

The word “vanilla” is often used as a synonym for bland or boring – but the University of Toronto’s Eric Jennings says the ...
University of Delaware

Owen White

Owen White is a historian of imperialism and colonialism with a particular interest in modern France and its empire. He grew up in the U.K., receiving his B.A. from the University of Exeter and his ...
insider.si.edu

Tradition in the service of modernity : architecture and urbanism in French colonial policy, 1900-1930

Extracted from: Journal of modern history (Chicago) 59 (2) 1987, pages 291-316. The urban modernist vision of French architects during the colonial period could not be implemented in metropolitan ...
NOLA.com

French colonial history lecture to focus on 1686 shipwreck

Archaeologist Jim Bruseth will discuss his involvement in the efforts to locate and excavate the remains of a French exploration ship at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, at The Historic New Orleans ...
The Atlantic

The Crisis of French Colonialism

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...