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The View from Paris: ‘Latinity’, ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, and the Americas, as discussed in the Revue des Races Latines, 1857–64

This article analyses the construction of concepts of ‘Latinity’ and ‘Anglo-Saxonism’ in the context of French debates on the Americas in the 1850s and 1860s. It argues that this imperialist narrative, developed against the backdrop of the French intervention in Mexico and the US Civil War, is pertinent to an understanding of the cultural system of representation of empire more generally. Paying particular attention to the Revue des Races Latines (1857–64), which promoted the idea of the Americas as the central battlefield of a more global struggle between Latin and Anglo-Saxon ‘races’ especially forcefully, it contends that the supposedly transnational concept of ‘Latinity’ came to define nationalist aims and to underpin imperialist visions about France's role in the world.