Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1998)

Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Canterbury Tales.
Translated by David Wright.
London: The Folio Society, 1998.
(This translation was first published in 1985 by Oxford University Press.)

This book is currently available as:

Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Canterbury Tales.
Translated by David Wright.
Introduction and Notes by Christopher Cannon.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

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Author Information:

• Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400), Wikipedia.
• The Canterbury Tales, composed between 1387 and 1400, Wikipedia.
• David Wright (1920 – 1994), Wikipedia.
• Christopher Cannon (b. 1965), Wikipedia.

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper, Ardis Butterfield, "Chaucer," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 09 February 2006.
  
  • Professor Carolyne Larrington, Faculty of English, University of Oxford.
  • Carolyne Larrington's Website, WordPress.
  • Carolyne Larrington (b. 1959), Wikipedia.
  • Prof Helen Cooper, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
  • Helen Cooper (b. 1947), Wikipedia.
  • Ardis Butterfield, English Department, Yale University.
  • Ardis Butterfield, Wikipedia.
• Melvyn Bragg, Miri Rubin, Kathryn Rudy, Anthony Bale, "Medieval Pilgrimage," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 February 2021.
  
  • Professor Miri Rubin, School of History, Queen Mary University of London.
  • Miri Rubin (b. 1956), Wikipedia.
  • Prof Kathryn M. Rudy FRSE, School of Art History, University of St Andrews.
  • Kathryn M. Rudy (b. 1969), Wikipedia.
  • Prof Anthony Bale, Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing, Birkbeck, University of London.
  • Anthony Bale (b. 1975), Wikipedia.

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Some readily available editions of the original (Middle English) Chaucer include:

• The Norton Chaucer.
• The Riverside Chaucer.
• The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics.

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Aldrich, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion (1996)

Robert Aldrich.
Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion.
New York: St. Martin's Press (Palgrave Macmillan), 1996.

Book Information: Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Robert Aldrich (b. 1954), Wikipedia.
• Professor Robert Aldrich, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, The University of Sydney, Australia.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• French colonial empire, 1534–1980.
  (After reading Aldrich's Greater France I feel obliged to warn the reader that this Wikipedia article treats many topics in a very abbreviated manner.)
• Overseas France, France d'outre-mer, l'Outre-mer, les DOM-TOM.

Miscellaneous Items:

• Copra, "dried coconut kernels from which coconut oil is expelled", noted by Aldrich as an export commodity from some French colonies.
• groundnut, Bambara groundnut, a legume from West Africa.

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Aldrich's Greater France is a very good introduction to the French overseas empire since 1830; however, it appears that it is currently out-of-print. Aldrich's Notes and Bibliography contain extensive references to the French literature so I am sure his book remains a useful guide for more serious students and readers of French. Some more recently published books (in English) on this topic include:

• Frederick Quinn. The French Overseas Empire. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers (Greenwood Publishing Group), 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Todd Shepard. The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery. Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954. Translated by Ly Lan Dill-Klein. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David Todd. A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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