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The Trouble with the French Republic: On Two Recent Books About French Colonization
Charles Emmerson reviews two recent books on France’s colonial legacy, Nabila Ramdani’s “Fixing France” and Pierre Singaravélou’s “Colonisations.”
Charles Emmerson
Charles Emmerson is an Australian-born writer and historian living in London. His most recent book is Crucible: The Long End of the Great War & the Birth of a New World (2019), about Europe and the United States from 1917 to 1924.