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

"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)

• 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

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

"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)

• 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

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

"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)

• 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