Dr. Gerber's research is focused on the role of law and litigious practice in the social and political development of early modern Europe and its overseas colonies. His first book, 'Bastards: Politics, Family, and Law in Early Modern France' (Oxford University Press, 2012), explores the changing legal condition and practical treatment of children born out of wedlock in France between 1555 and 1789. His second book project is investing the history of property, kinship, and racialization in the eighteenth-century French Caribbean through a microhistory of litigation involving Angélique Hossé, mother of the Haitian revolutionary leaer Vincent Ogé.
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social history, cultural history, political history, legal history, early modern Europe, early modern France, bastardy, illegitimacy, violence, terror, colonialism, race, early modern France, French colonial history
