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Postcolonial Studies Meets Global History: Rendez-vous in the Francophone World

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, Georg W. F. Hegel labeled it a “world-historical” event. Just a few decades later, Karl Marx was equally fascinated by this Revolution, contributing to the notion that it served as a global turning point that would bend European society toward a post-feudal, modern world. Though scholars of postcolonial studies have long scrutinized these nineteenth-century thinkers’ narratives of progress, they played a large part in cementing the French Revolution’s place in world history. Scholars of French studies have recently challenged long-held notions of French exceptionalism. This article explores the relationship between postcolonial studies and global history, both tenuous and complementary, as they relate to the emerging field of global French studies. Providing a reading of these intersecting methods in the historiography of both the French Revolution and 1968 in France, I contend that postcolonial studies is a form of global history.

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Work Title Postcolonial Studies Meets Global History: Rendez-vous in the Francophone World
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  1. Burleigh Hendrickson
Keyword
  1. 1968
  2. Enlightenment
  3. French Revolution
  4. Global history
  5. Historiography
  6. Postcolonial
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Work Type Article
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  1. Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques
Publication Date March 1, 2024
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  1. https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2024.500105
Deposited March 25, 2024

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