(1837–1898), Vietnamese linguist, collaborator with the early French regime. Truong Vinh Ky (Petrus Jean-Baptiste Vinh Ky) was a Catholic-educated Vietnamese scholar who collaborated with the early French colonial regime in southern Vietnam. Ky...

France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning of the 17th century until the 1960s. In the 19th and 20th centuries, its global colonial empire was the second largest behind the British Empire. At its peak, between 1919 and 1939,...

Cultured Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire. By Barnett Singer and John Langdon. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 483, 7 b/w illustrations, 5 maps. $45.00. No course in modern French history should be without this book, and...

Cultural Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire. By Barnett Singer and John Langdon. (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 483. $45.00.) The starting point for this book is that "Western or French, imperialism [was not] all...

An outline of the 17th century influence of French settlers in North America.