2. Why did France want Louisiana Back?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. 1. Explaining Revolutionary Upheaval: From Internal Societal Developments to Global Processes of Respatialization 1
5. Part I: Expanding the Scope of the French Revolution
6. 2. Why did France want Louisiana Back? 23
7. 3. The French Revolution as a Period of Territorialization of the Colonial Empire? A Southern Indian Ocean Perspective 47
8. 4. Black Rebels and Royal Auxiliaries Before, During, and After the French Revolution 63
9. Part II: The Impact of the French Revolution
10. 5. The French Revolution in Indian Country: Reconsidering the Reach and Place of Atlantic Upheaval 85
11. 6. Mobility, Circulation, Spatial Configurations, and Respatialization in the Wake of the Haitian Revolution: A View from New Granada’s Shores 107
12. 7. Islands in Turmoil: The Azores during the Atlantic Revolutionary Cycle 129
13. 8. The Respatialization of Cypriot Insularity during the Age of Revolutions 149
14. Part III: The New Spatial Organization of Societies
15. 9. The Reorganization of Administrative Space in France and its Colonies 169
16. 10. (Re)spatialization and its Limits: Territory and Descent, Ideology and Pragmatism in Definitions of Citizenship 189
17. 11. The Respatialization of Italy between French Republics and Napoleonic Domination 203
18. 12. From Empire to Republics: The Collapse of the Spanish Monarchy and the Respatialization of America 223
19. Authors 241
20. Index 245