Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763

by Kenneth J. Banks

Overview

Elaine Keillor offers an unprecedented history of Canadian musical expressions and their relationship to Canada's great cultural and geographic diversity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773531604
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	07/28/2006
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Kenneth Banks is an NEH fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. He is currently researching a book on French contraband in the Early Modern Atlantic World.

Editorial Reviews

An ambitious study of an important, but difficult-to-reach dimension of European colonialism in America. The systematic comparison of the port towns of Quebec, New Orleans, and St Pierre is in itself a major contribution, but Banks' analysis offers much more. He explores an array of texts and information generated by the mundane operation of empire through the exciting lens of new cultural history, providing vital material and interpretation for a better comparative understanding of imperial communications systems across space and time. Daniel H. Usner, Jr., Department of History, Cornell University "The comparative nature of the study is most welcome. Histories that compare and contrast the different parts of the French colonial world are few and far between. Banks is to be congratulated for having undertaken and ambitious inter-colonial study." A.J.B Johnston, author of Life and Religion at Louisbourg

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