In Search of Empire The French in the Americas, 1670-1730

Name: In Search of Empire The French in the Americas, 1670-1730
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ISBN: 9780521711111

ISBN-10: 0521711118

ISBN-13: 9780521711111

Edition: 2007

Authors: James Pritchard

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The decades between 1670 and 1730 were the most formative in the history of the French colonies in the Americas. A sufficient number of migrants arrived from France and Africa to create settlements, establish economies of production, develop networks of exchange and trade, and adapt institutions of government and law to give substance and form to their resulting societies. In Search of Empire is the first full account of how during these years French settlers came to the Americas. It examines how they and thousands of African slaves together with American Indians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much new evidence, the author explores…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 514
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.70" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of tables


Maps and graphs


Illustrations


Preface


Dates, weights, measures and currencies


List of abbreviations



Colonies Formed



Colonial populations



Settlements and societies



Production



Trade and exchange



Government and politics



Colonies Defended



The Franco-Dutch War in the Americas, 1672-1678



France and the Nine Years' War in the Americas



The War of the Spanish Succession in the Americas



Elusive empire


Appendices