In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730Elusive Empire is the first full account of how during 1670 and 1730 French settlers came to the Americas. It examines how they and thousands of African slaves together with Amerindians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much new evidence, the author explores how the newly constructed societies and new economies, without precedent in France, interacted with the growing international violence in the Atlantic world in order to present a fresh perspective of the multifarious French colonizing experience in the Americas. |
Contents
Colonial Populations | 5 |
12 Aboriginal populations | 6 |
13 African Immigrants | 13 |
14 European Immigrants | 18 |
15 Size and Structures | 30 |
16 New France | 33 |
17 The French CircumCaribbean | 45 |
18 Conclusion | 72 |
57 Conclusion | 262 |
Colonies Defended | 267 |
The FrancoDutch War 16721678 | 269 |
62 Opening Hostilities | 271 |
63 Colonial Initiatives | 277 |
64 Metropolitan Responses | 285 |
65 Naval Assaults | 290 |
66 Conclusion | 297 |
Settlements and Societies | 74 |
22 Material Conditions | 76 |
23 Landholding | 80 |
24 Social Groups | 90 |
25 Institutions of Social Life | 108 |
26 Conclusion | 123 |
Production | 125 |
32 Tobacco | 132 |
33 Fish | 141 |
34 Fur | 152 |
35 Sugar | 164 |
36 Conclusion | 189 |
Trade and Exchange | 191 |
42 Ineffectual Policies Legislative Futility | 192 |
43 Commercial Trade | 195 |
44 Shipping | 210 |
45 The Slave Trade | 217 |
46 Money Capital and Credit | 226 |
47 Conclusion | 230 |
Government and Politics | 232 |
52 Absolutism | 233 |
53 Colbert and His Successors | 236 |
54 Colonial Government | 243 |
55 Colonial Justice | 251 |
56 Colonial Resistance | 256 |
The Nine Years War in America 16881697 | 303 |
72 The Windward Islands | 305 |
73 Saint Domingue | 315 |
74 Spanish America | 322 |
75 New France | 335 |
76 Acadia Newfoundland and Hudson Bay | 343 |
77 Conclusion | 357 |
The War of the Spanish Succession in America 17021713 | 360 |
82 The Trade and Treasure of Spanish America | 364 |
83 Trade and War in the CircumCaribbean | 376 |
84 La Course Royale Reappears in the Americas | 386 |
85 Northern Colonies Abandoned | 393 |
86 Conclusion | 402 |
Elusive Empire | 404 |
92 Rivals for a Continent | 405 |
93 FrancoSpanish Hostilities | 410 |
94 Piracys Resurgence | 412 |
95 Colonies in Search of a Navy | 419 |
96 Elusive Empire | 422 |
Appendixes | 425 |
2 Slave Populations of the French West Indies 16701730 | 430 |
3 Provisional List of Colonial Administrators 16701730 | 434 |
Bibliography | 443 |
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In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730 James Pritchard No preview available - 2007 |
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Page 448 - MÉMOIRES des Commissaires du Roi et de ceux de Sa Majesté Britannique sur les possessions et les droits respectifs des deux Couronnes en Amérique ; Avec les Actes publics et Pièces justificatives.
Page xxiv - I would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Vancouver Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis.
References to this book
Crisis, Absolutism, Revolution: Europe and the World, 1648-1789 Raymond Birn No preview available - 2005 |