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French Connections - Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, 1600-1875 (Hardcover)
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French Connections - Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, 1600-1875 (Hardcover)
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French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and
social practices contributed to the complex processes and
negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America
and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875. Engaging a
wide range of topics, from religious and diplomatic performance to
labor migration, racialization, and both imagined and real
conceptualizations of "Frenchness" and "Frenchification", this
volume argues that cultural mobility was fundamental to the
development of French colonial societies and the collective
identities they housed. Cases of cultural formation and dislocation
in places as diverse as Quebec, the Illinois Country, Detroit,
Haiti, Acadia, New England, and France itself demonstrate the broad
variability of French cultural mobility that took place throughout
this massive geographical space. Nevertheless, these communities
shared the same cultural root in the midst of socially and
politically fluid landscapes, where cultural mobility came to
define, and indeed sustain, communal and individual identities in
French North America and the Atlantic World. Drawing on innovative
new scholarship on Louisiana and New Orleans, the editors and
contributors to French Connections look to refocus the conversation
surrounding French colonial interconnectivity by thinking about
mobility as a constitutive condition of culture; from this
perspective, separate "spheres" of French colonial culture merge to
reveal a broader, more cohesive cultural world. The comprehensive
scope of this collection will attract scholars of French North
America, early American history, Atlantic World history, Caribbean
studies, Canadian studies, and frontier studies. With essays from
established, award-winning scholars such as Brett Rushforth, Leslie
Choquette, Jay Gitlin, and Christopher Hodson as well as from new,
progressive thinkers such as Mairi Cowan, William Brown, Karen L.
Marrero, and Robert D. Taber, French Connections promises to
generate interest and value across an extensive and diverse range
of concentrations.
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