Description: Louisiana : Crossroads of the Atlantic World, Hardcover by Vidal, Cecile (EDT), ISBN 0812245512, ISBN-13 9780812245516, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Located at the junction of North America and the Caribbean, the vast territory of colonial Louisiana provides a paradigmatic case study for an Atlantic studies approach. One of the largest North American colonies and one of the last to be founded, Louisiana was governed by a succession of sovereignties, with parts ruled at various times by France, Spain, Britain, and finally the United States. But just as these shifting imperial connections shaped the territory's culture, Louisiana's peculiar geography and history also yielded a distinctive colonization pattern that reflected a synthesis of continent and island societies. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World offers an exceptional collaboration among American, Canadian, and European historians who explore colonial and antebellum Louisiana's relations with the rest of the Atlantic world. Studying the legacy of each period of Louisiana history over the longue durée, the essays create a larger picture of the ways early settlements influenced Louisiana society and how the changes in sovereignty and other circulations gave rise to a multiethnic society. Contributors examine the workings of empire through the examples of slave laws, administrative careers or on-the-ground political negotiations, cultural exchanges among landowners, slave holders, and slaves, and the construction of race through sexuality, marriage, and household formation. As a whole, the volume makes the compelling argument that one cannot write Louisiana history without adopting an Atlantic perspective, or Atlantic history without referring to Louisiana. Contributors: Guillaume Aubert, Emily Clark, Alexandre Dubé, Sylvia R. Frey, Sylvia L. Hilton, Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, Cécile Vidal, Sophie White, Mary Williams.
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Book Title: Louisiana : Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Louisiana : Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Historical, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.7 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Cécile Vidal
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Early American Studies
Format: Hardcover
