03472nam 2200745Ia 450 991081324360332120200520144314.01-107-14724-71-280-44916-00-511-80855-00-511-16529-30-511-16570-60-511-16377-00-511-30893-00-511-16457-2(CKB)1000000000353377(EBL)255190(OCoLC)260518236(SSID)ssj0000177759(PQKBManifestationID)11169641(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177759(PQKBWorkID)10216798(PQKB)10760263(UkCbUP)CR9780511808555(MiAaPQ)EBC255190(Au-PeEL)EBL255190(CaPaEBR)ebr10120434(CaONFJC)MIL44916(OCoLC)191934811(PPN)233236007(EXLCZ)99100000000035337720030211d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIn search of empire the French in the Americas, 1670-1730 /James Pritchard1st ed.Cambridge ;New York Cambridge University Press20041 online resource (xxvii, 484 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-71111-8 0-521-82742-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-471) and index.Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Maps and Graphs; Tables; Preface; Dates, Weights, Measures, and Currency; Abbreviations; Part 1 Colonies Formed; Part 2 Colonies Defended; Appendixes; Bibliography; IndexThe 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. Elusive Empire was 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 Amerindians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much 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.FrenchAmericaHistory17th centuryFrenchAmericaHistory18th centuryFrontier and pioneer lifeAmericaFranceColoniesAmericaAmericaHistoryTo 1810AmericaEthnic relationsFrenchHistoryFrenchHistoryFrontier and pioneer life970/0971244Pritchard James S.1939-850883MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813243603321In search of empire3996035UNINA