Chasing Empire across the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chasing Empire across the Sea write by Kenneth J. Banks. This book was released on 2002-11-21. Chasing Empire across the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Banks defines and applies the concept of communications in a far broader context than previous historical studies of communication, encompassing a range of human activity from sailing routes, to mapping, to presses, to building roads and bridges. He employs a comparative analysis of early modern French imperialism, integrating three types of overseas possessions usually considered separately - the settlement colony (New France), the tropical monoculture colony (the French Windward Islands), and the early Enlightenment planned colony (Louisiana) - offering a work of synthesis that unites the historiographies and insights from three formerly separate historical literatures. Banks challenges the very notion that a concrete "empire" emerged by the first half of the eighteenth century; in fact, French colonies remained largely isolated arenas of action and development. Only with the contraction and concentration of overseas possessions after 1763 on the Plantation Complex did a more cohesive, if fleeting, French empire first emerge.
Archipelago of Justice
Archipelago of Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archipelago of Justice write by Laurie M. Wood. This book was released on 2020-04-21. Archipelago of Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of France's Atlantic and Indian Ocean empires through the stories of the little-known people who built it This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France's first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial subjects sought political and legal influence via law courts, with strategies that reflected local and regional priorities, particularly regarding slavery, war, and trade. Through court records and legal documents, Wood reveals how courts became liaisons between France and new colonial possessions.
Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery
Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery write by Sylvia Sellers-García. This book was released on 2013-12-11. Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire. This book takes up these unknowns and proposes that by examining how documents operated in the Spanish empire, we can better understand how the empire was built and, most importantly, how knowledge was created. The author argues that even in such a vast realm, knowledge was built locally by people who existed at the peripheries of empire. Organized along routes and centralized into local nodes, peripheral knowledge accumulated in regional centers before moving on to the heart of the empire in Spain. The study takes the Kingdom of Guatemala as its departure point and examines the related aspects of documents and distance in three sections: part one looks at document genre, and how the creation of documents was shaped by distance; part two looks at the movement of documents and the workings of the mail system; part three looks at document storage and how archives played an essential part in the flow of paper.
Franco-America in the Making
Franco-America in the Making - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Franco-America in the Making write by Jonathan K. Gosnell. This book was released on 2018-07-01. Franco-America in the Making available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A study of the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, particularly New England and southern Louisiana"--
Apostles of Empire
Apostles of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apostles of Empire write by Bronwen McShea. This book was released on 2022. Apostles of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Apostles of Empire contributes to ongoing research on the Jesuits, New France, and Atlantic World encounters, as well as on early modern French society, print culture, Catholicism, and imperialism.
