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Mapping the French Empire in North America
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Mapping the French Empire in North America
Author: David Buisseret
Publisher: Newberry Library Bookstore
ISBN: 9780911028461
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Publisher: Newberry Library Bookstore
ISBN: 9780911028461
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Map of the British Empire in America
Author: H. Popple
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872324731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872324731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Legacies of a French Empire in North America
Author: Veronique Deplanne
Publisher: Virginia Beach, Va. : Donning Company Publishers
ISBN: 9781578640751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Publisher: Virginia Beach, Va. : Donning Company Publishers
ISBN: 9781578640751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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A Not-So-New World
Author: Christopher M. Parsons
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812250583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured similar gardens through the Saint Lawrence Valley and Great Lakes region. In A Not-So-New World, Christopher Parsons observes how it was that French colonists began to learn about Native environments and claimed a mandate to cultivate vegetation that did not differ all that much from that which they had left behind. As Parsons relates, colonists soon discovered that there were limits to what they could accomplish in their gardens. The strangeness of New France became woefully apparent, for example, when colonists found that they could not make French wine out of American grapes. They attributed the differences they discovered to Native American neglect and believed that the French colonial project would rehabilitate and restore the plant life in the region. However, the more colonists experimented with indigenous species and communicated their findings to the wider French Atlantic world, the more foreign New France appeared to French naturalists and even to the colonists themselves. Parsons demonstrates how the French experience of attempting to improve American environments supported not only the acquisition and incorporation of Native American knowledge but also the development of an emerging botanical science that focused on naming new species. Exploring the moment in which settlers, missionaries, merchants, and administrators believed in their ability to shape the environment to better resemble the country they left behind, A Not-So-New World reveals that French colonial ambitions were fueled by a vision of an ecologically sustainable empire.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812250583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured similar gardens through the Saint Lawrence Valley and Great Lakes region. In A Not-So-New World, Christopher Parsons observes how it was that French colonists began to learn about Native environments and claimed a mandate to cultivate vegetation that did not differ all that much from that which they had left behind. As Parsons relates, colonists soon discovered that there were limits to what they could accomplish in their gardens. The strangeness of New France became woefully apparent, for example, when colonists found that they could not make French wine out of American grapes. They attributed the differences they discovered to Native American neglect and believed that the French colonial project would rehabilitate and restore the plant life in the region. However, the more colonists experimented with indigenous species and communicated their findings to the wider French Atlantic world, the more foreign New France appeared to French naturalists and even to the colonists themselves. Parsons demonstrates how the French experience of attempting to improve American environments supported not only the acquisition and incorporation of Native American knowledge but also the development of an emerging botanical science that focused on naming new species. Exploring the moment in which settlers, missionaries, merchants, and administrators believed in their ability to shape the environment to better resemble the country they left behind, A Not-So-New World reveals that French colonial ambitions were fueled by a vision of an ecologically sustainable empire.
The French Mapping of North America, 1600-1760
Author: Conrad E. Heidenreich
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Pages : 20
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The French in North America, 1500-1783
Author: William John Eccles
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the mainland of North America and the West Indies, from the arrival of the Breton, Norman and Basque fishermen on the Grand Banks around 1500 to the sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803. Professor Eccles depicts the establishment of Baroque civilization and the attempt of the establishment of industries and commerce from the slave plantations of the south to the fur trade posts of the far northwest, and discusses the colonists of other European powers.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the mainland of North America and the West Indies, from the arrival of the Breton, Norman and Basque fishermen on the Grand Banks around 1500 to the sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803. Professor Eccles depicts the establishment of Baroque civilization and the attempt of the establishment of industries and commerce from the slave plantations of the south to the fur trade posts of the far northwest, and discusses the colonists of other European powers.
Beyond Borders
Author: Robert Englebert
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Category : University of Ottawa theses
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : University of Ottawa theses
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Montcalm and Wolfe
Author: Francis Parkman
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Languages : es
Pages : 669
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Languages : es
Pages : 669
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History of New France
Author: Marc Lescarbot
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Category : Acadia
Languages : fr
Pages : 370
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Category : Acadia
Languages : fr
Pages : 370
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