This account of French settlers; who came to the Americas from 1670 through 1730; examines how they and thousands of African slaves (together with Amerindians) constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much new evidence; James Pritchard explores how the newly constructed societies and new economies (without precedent in France) interacted with international violence in the Atlantic world and presents a new perspective on the diverse French colonizing experience in the Americas.
#601171 in Books Cambridge University Press 2009-02-16 2009-05-14Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.96 x 1.69 x 6.97l; 2.75 #File Name: 0521616492752 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Brandon ClemonsGreat book!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Eric PohlAs described; shipped quickly.7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. The importance of an editorBy Toby BlythThis is a great book - the background reading evident in the text is itself quite awe-inspiring. The author somehow manages to combine "old-fashioned" narrative history with "new-fashioned" thematic history (eg women; slaves etc). A very good companion to Elliott's Empires of the Atlantic.However; the paperback edition cries out for an editor. The typographical and grammar/syntax errors are so many as to become very annoying to the reader.For example; the author means "East Anglian" not "East Anglican". "Cloth" as a noun does not have an e on the end (and if it was meant to be an unmarked quotation; use "sic" so we know). Ships were sunk not "sank". Most ships fire cannon not "canon". A "Field Marshall" is a tractor; not a military rank. Europeans and natives "pair" (in the context of a discussion on miscegenation); they don't "pare". Amherst's smallpox-laden blankets were not "the first known effort at biological warfare" (that would be news to the ancient Chinese and Greeks: see A Mayor; "Greek Fire; Poison Arrows Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World").Guerre is feminine so it is "la petite guerre" not "la petit guerre". The Breton port is St Malo; not "St Milo". It is a levee en masse not "mass". The Arabic "koran/kuran" is written with qaf and therefore is never transliterated as "khoran" (and if this was meant to be a quote; unmarked of course; "sic" should have been used). It is dissension not "dissention". Being pulled apart by four horses was not "drawing and quartering".Full stops appear in the middle of sentences and the next word is capitalised. Subordinate clauses do not agree with the dominant clause. Entire sentences comprise one subordinate clause. There are typographical errors that the most elementary spellcheck program would detect.Some of these errors are so egregious they suggest a degree of illiteracy in the author (which is inconsistent with the text and treatment of the sources). The presentation is an embarrassment to Cambridge and the author.Still; ignoring this; heartily recommended.
