''French Politics, Culture & Society'' is a peer-reviewed

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published by

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on behalf of the Conference Group on French Politics & Society (sponsored jointly by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at

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and the Institute of French Studies at

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). It covers modern and contemporary

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from the perspectives of the

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, and

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. It also explores the relationship of France to the rest of the world, especially

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, the

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, and the former

French colonies From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over , the second largest empire in the world at the time behind only the Spanish Empire. During the 19th and 20th centuri ...

. The

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Herrick Chapman Herrick Chapman is a prominent historian of France. Since 1992 he has been employed at New York University, where he is Professor of History in the Department of History and Institute of French Studies. Professor Chapman was educated at the Uni ...

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