Frédéric REGENT

Regent
Université des Antilles et de la Guyane
Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Département Pluridisciplinaire de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines
Camp Jacob – Rue des Officiers
F – 97120 Saint Claude

Email: regentfrederic@wanadoo.fr
Office contact +590 590 80 99 90

Teaching and research interests

Associate member of the research group Industrial Archaeology, History and heritage, directed by Professor Danielle Bégot, the research group in History of the University of the Antilles and Guyana (EA 929).

Within the framework of this group we participate in the development of a reader (sources, historiography and critical bibliography) for the history of the French Antilles. Personally treated topics include the history of the Revolution, as well as social and demographic history in the 17th and 18th century.

Our current research deals with the comparative history of various French colonies from the 17th century to 1848. We are particularly interested in historical demography and the metissage process in Guadeloupe and Reunion island. We have compiled a database (using Access) of 14.000 individuals taken from the census reports of 1664 and 1671. Our objective is to analyse the population of the French colonies at the beginning of colonialisation and to study the formation of colonial societies. After having studied the revolutionary phenomenon in the coloured population, we will concentrate on its presence in the white population of the colonies.

Principal publications