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Rumors of Revolution - Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial Louisiana (Hardcover)
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Rumors of Revolution - Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial Louisiana (Hardcover)
Series: Writing the Early Americas
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In 1682 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle
claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region
Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States
acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a
century later, there had never been a revolution, per se, in
Louisiana. However, as Jennifer Tsien highlights in this
groundbreaking work, revolutionary sentiment clearly surfaced in
the literature and discourse both in the Louisiana colony and in
France with dramatic and far-reaching consequences. In Rumors of
Revolution, Tsien analyzes documented observations made in Paris
and in New Orleans about the exercise of royal power over French
subjects and colonial Louisiana stories that laid bare the
arbitrary powers and abuses that the government could exert on its
people against their will. Ultimately, Tsien establishes an
implicit connection between histories of settler colonialism in the
Americas and the fate of absolutism in Europe that has been largely
overlooked in scholarship to date.
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