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Dr Saliha Belmessous

Licence, Université Lyon III-Jean Moulin; MA Université Lyon III and Université de Montréal; Ph.D., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1999.
Research Fellow
Room 706 MacCallum Building
+ 61 2 9351 2998

Research Areas

  • Early-modern French history
  • Colonial history (French, European, Atlantic)
  • European-Indigenous relations

Current projects

  • The hidden history of indigenous legal opposition to dispossession. Book manuscript in preparation.
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Selected publications

Assimilation and Empire, Oxford University Press, forthcoming

'Assimilation as a justification of empire', Renaissance Studies, special issue on the Intellectual History of Early Modern Empires, forthcoming.

‘Le monument Lapérouse à Sydney ou l’histoire d’un mythe colonial franco-australien’, Outre-Mer: Revue d’histoire 94: 350-351 (2006), 51-68.

‘Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy’, American Historical Review 110: 2 (April 2005) 322-349.

‘Etre français en Nouvelle-France: Identité française et identité coloniale aux dix-septième et dix-huitième siècles’, French Historical Studies 27: 3 (Summer 2004), 507-40.

D’un préjugé culturel à un préjugé racial: la politique indigène de la France au Canada, 1672-1763. (Lille: ANRT, 1999).

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