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Frederick Cooper, « An Empire among Empires: The Political Economy of France between Colonization and Decolonization », Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, ID : 10670/1.72b928...
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This reflection on Denis Cogneau’s Un Empire bon marché (Empire on the Cheap) brings out his emphasis on the political in political economy—how a colonizing state acted in relation to both its colonized subjects and rival empires. An interimperial perspective explains the rapidity of colonization in the nineteenth century as well as that of decolonization in the twentieth. Empire neither cost French taxpayers a great deal nor produced great gains for the French economy, although it allowed some individuals to profit and others to have an illustrious career. For France, the empire was a bargain because colonized people paid the costs of their own subjugation, but for those populations it was not a bargain at all.
