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The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962 by Gauvin A. Bailey McGill-Queen’s University Press 2022. 488 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01142-2 Reviewed by Rachael Maxon ...

The colonial empires of France and the Netherlands once spanned ... which continue to maintain political and economic ties with the French Republic. Likewise, the Dutch empire, fueled by maritime ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the ...