Colonial encounters and empires in contact -- Tahiti: La nouvelle Cythere, the morality of colonialism, and pseudo-foreign letters -- Martinique, slavery, and emancipation: Louis de Maynard de Queilhe's outre-mer -- "Une effrayante epidemie": the red threat, Indian decolonization, and desordres a Pondichery -- Competing colonialisms, competing memories: the after-lives of empire.
