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The creation of Modern France through expansion goes back to the establishment of a small kingdom in the area around Paris in the late tenth century and was not completed until the incorporation of Nice and Savoy in 1860. The existing "hexagon" was the result of a long series of wars and conquests involving the triumph of French language and culture over what once were autonomous and culturally distinctive communities. The assimilation of Gascons, Savoyards, Occitans, Basques, and others helped to sustain the myth that French overseas expansionism in the nineteenth century, especially to North and West Africa, was a continuation of the same assimilationist project.

George M. Fredrickson

George M. Fredrickson

George M. Fredrickson

Born: July 16, 1934

Died: February 25, 2008 (aged 73)

Bio: George M. Fredrickson was an American Edgar E. Robinson Professor of U.S. History at Stanford University from 1984 until the time of his retirement in 2002.

Known for:

Racism: A Short History (2002)
White Supremacy (1981)
The Black image in the white mind (1971)
The arrogance of race (1988)
The inner Civil War (1965)

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