Louisiana

Crossroads of the Atlantic World

AvCécile Vidal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:546 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Early American Studies
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:9780812245516

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Cecile Vidal is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for North American Studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Recensioner i media

"The ten essays in this volume prove the value of an exploration of Louisiana's colonial and American territorial past from an Atlantic world perspective. American, Canadian, and European historians demonstrate through extensive comparative and connective analysis of Louisiana's administrative, economic, and social links to France, Spain, and the Caribbean that eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Louisiana should never again be characterized as isolated and insular." (Julien Vernet, The Journal of Southern History) "Sitting at the edges of a New France trading economy and a circum-Caribbean system of slavery as well as at the heart of what would become the continental United States, Louisiana did indeed sit at the crossroads of the Atlantic world. Bridging historiographic and nationalistic divides, Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World is a welcome addition to the transnational scholarship of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century Louisiana." (Jennifer M. Spear, author of Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans) "These smart essays make good on the transnational promises and post-colonial potential of Atlantic history. No one, ever again, will refer to Louisiana as the neglected stepchild of United States or French colonial history." (Catherine Desbarats, McGill University)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Louisiana in Atlantic Perspective-CÉcile VidalPART I. EMPIRESChapter 1. "To Establish One Law and Definite Rules": Race, Religion, and the Transatlantic Origins of the Louisiana Code Noir-Guillaume AubertChapter 2. Making a Career out of the Atlantic: Louisiana's Plume-Alexandre DubÉChapter 3. Spanish Louisiana in Atlantic Contexts: Nexus of Imperial Transactions and International Relations-Sylvia L. HiltonPART II. CIRCULATIONSChapter 4. Slaves and Poor Whites' Informal Economies in an Atlantic Context-Sophie WhiteChapter 5. "Un NÈgre nommÈ [sic] Lubin ne connaissant pas Sa Nation": The Small World of Louisiana Slavery-Jean-Pierre Le GlaunecPART III. INTIMACIESChapter 6. Caribbean Louisiana: Church, MÉtissage, and the Language of Race in the Mississippi Colony during the French Period-CÉcile VidalChapter 7. Private Lives and Public Orders: Regulating Sex, Marriage, and Legitimacy in Spanish Colonial Louisiana-Mary WilliamsChapter 8. Atlantic Alliances: Marriage among People of African Descent in New Orleans-Emily ClarkConclusion. Beyond Borders: Revising Atlantic History-Sylvia R. FreyNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments