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By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

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Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 27 January 2026
Publisher: Harvard University Press

In By Flesh and Toil, Mélanie Lamotte explores the rise of the French Empire across both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Charting the development of a pan-imperial legal culture of race, she also shows how people of African, Malagasy, South Asian, and Native American descent played key roles in shaping the Empire and setting its limits.

Weight: 654g
Dimension: 242 x 165 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780674272835

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