This book provides the first ever English-language analysis of France's so-called confetti of empire, the colonial remnants referred to as DOM-TOMs--the d?partements et territoires d'outre-mer. France shows no signs of relinquishing its remaining overseas outposts which are located from the tropics to the poles--Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Saint Pierre, and Miquelon in the western hemisphere, R?union and Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, New...