The French Experience in Louisiana
Volume I of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History
Glenn R. Conrad (editor)
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BOOK SUMMARY
A collection of the best schalorly material on the French colonial experience in Louisiana.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Beginning with pioneers like N. M. Miller Surrey, Marcel Giraud, and Charles O'Neill, French colonial historians of the last third of the twentieth century have produced a new historiography. This volume is designed to bring before interested readers this fresh, sometimes revealing, but always thoughtful scholarship.
This volume incorporates the very best of the new scholarship on French Louisiana. The volume's component articles are grouped into sections entitled French Colonial Policy and Louisiana; Europeanization of French Louisiana; Africans, Slaves, Slavery, and Manumissions; The French and Native Americans; Soldiers, Fortifications, and Mercenaries; Administration of French Louisiana; French Law, Religion, and Morality; Louisiana's Nascent Economy; and The End of French Louisiana.
It is to be hoped that the reader will come away from this volume with a better understanding of the complexities of the French experience in Louisiana and a better appreciation of the contribution of scholars who, employing ever-evolving historical methodology, have set firmly the French building block in the structure of our state's heritage.
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CONTENTS
PART I FRENCH COLONIAL POLICY AND LOUISIANA
Colbertand the Colonies
by Math--†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚© Allain
Colbert's Policy Crumbles: La Salle's Voyages
by Math--†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚© Allain
The Image of La Salle in North American Historiography
by Carl A. Brasseaux
The Official Initiative
by Marcel Giraud
The Religious Initiative
by Marcel Giraud
Jerome Phelypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain, and the Establishment of
Louisiana, 1696-1715
by John C. Rule
In Search of a Policy
by Math--†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚© Allain
PART II EUROPEANIZATION OF FRENCH LOUISIANA
French Emigration Policies: Louisiana, 1699-1715.
by Math--†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚© Allain
The Transportation of Convicts to Colonial Louisiana
by James D. Hardy, Jr.
Emigration Forc--†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚©e: A French Attempt to Populate Louisiana, 1716-1720.
by Glenn R. Conrad
German Emigration
by Marcel Giraud
The Myth of John Law's German Colony on the Arkansas.
by Morris S. Arnold
The Image of Louisiana and the Failure of Voluntary French Emigration, 1683-1731
by Carl A. Brasseaux
Alsatian Emigration to Louisiana, 1753-1759
by Glenn R. Conrad
PART III AFRICANS, SLAVES, SLAVERY, AND MANUMISSIONS
Slave Policies in French Louisiana
by Math--†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚© Allain
From African Captivity to American Slavery: The Introduction of
Black Laborers to Colonial Louisiana
by Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
Slavery and Agriculture in Louisiana: 1699-1731
by Grady W. Kilman
The Administration of Slave Regulations in French Louisiana, 1724-1766
by Carl A. Brasseaux
Free Persons of Color in Colonial Louisiana
by Donald E. Everett
PART IV THE FRENCH AND NATIVE AMERICANS
The Indians of Louisiana, About 1700-Their Customs and Manner of Living
by Paul A. Kunkel
Henri de Tonti's Mission to the Chickasaw, 1702
by Jay Higginbotham
The French and the Natchez Indians in Louisiana: 1700-1731
by Patricia D. Woods
War or Peace? Louisiana, the Choctaws, and the Chickasaws, 1733-1735
by Michael J. Foret
The Failure of Administration: The Chickasaw Campaign of 1739-40
by Michael J. Foret
Louisiana Post Letters: The Missing Evidence for Indian Diplomacy
by Patricia K. Galloway
Franco-Indian Diplomacy in the Mississippi Valley, 1754-1763: Prelude to
Pontiac's Uprising?
by Carl A. Brasseaux and Michael J. LeBlanc
PART V SOLDIERS, FORTIFICATIONS, AND MERCENARIES
The Military Organization of French Colonial Louisiana
by David Hardcastle
The Problems of Founding a Viable Colony: The Military in Early French
Louisiana
by Susan Gibbs Lemann
Swiss Mercenary Soldiers in the Service of France in Louisiana
by David Hardcastle
Colonial Fortifications and Military Architecture in the Mississippi Valley
by Samuel Wilson, Jr.
PART VI ADMINISTRATION OF FRENCH LOUISIANA
Some Legal and Practical Aspects of the Office of Commissaire-Ordonnateur
of French Louisiana
by Donald J. Lemieux
From Law Court to Local Government: Metamorphosis of the Superior Council of French Louisiana
by Jerry A. Micelle
Plus --†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¢'€šÂ¬Ã…¡Ã‚¬--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚¡a Change, Plus C'est La M--†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚ªme Chose: Premier Acte.
Cadillac and Duclos
by Math--†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚© Allain
Confusion, Conflict, & Currency: An Introduction to the Rebellion of 1768?
by Carl A. Brasseaux
Administration of the Illinois Country: The French Debate
by Glenn R. Conrad
PART VII FRENCH LAW, RELIGION, AND MORALITY
La Coutume de Paris: Louisiana's First Law
by Jerah Johnson
Le Mari Est Seigneur: Marital Laws Governing Women in French
Louisiana
by Vaughan Baker, Amos Simpson and Math--†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚© Allain
Cherchez les Femmes: Some Glimpses of Women in Early Eighteenth-Century Louisiana
by Vaughan B. Baker
The Christianization of French Colonial Louisiana: A General View of Church and State in the Context of Eighteenth-Century French Colonization and a Theory of Mission
by Mary Veronica Miceli
The Lines Cross
by Charles Edwards O'Neill
The Moral Climate of French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1763
by Carl A. Brasseaux
PART VIII LOUISIANA'S NASCENT ECONOMY
The Development of Industries in Louisiana During the French Regime,
1673-1763
by N. M. Miller Surrey
New Orleans: Its First Century of Economic Development
by John G. Clark
The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley in the
Eighteenth Century
by Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
The Chaumont Concession: A French Plantation on the Pascagoula
by Jay Higginbotham
The Cypress Lumber Industry of the Lower Mississippi Valley During
the Colonial Period
by John Hebron Moore
PART IX THE END OF FRENCH LOUISIANA
Plus --†â€™Ãƒâ€ ’--¢â‚¬Â ’--†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¢'€šÂ¬Ã…¡Ã‚¬--¢â‚'ƒâ€šÃ‚¡a Change: Acte Second: The Aubry-Foucault Clash and the
New Orleans Rebellion of 1768
by Carl A. Brasseaux
Old and New Interpretations of the Rebellion of 1768
by Jo Ann Carrigan
Some Eighteenth-Century French Views on Louisiana
by Pierre H. Boulle
Reluctant Imperialist: France in North America
by Glenn R. Conrad
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ISBN: 0940984970
Copyright: 1995
Dewey Decimal: 976.3
Library of Congress: 95-71051
Book Publisher: Center for Louisiana Studies
Language: ENG
Binding: Sewn
No. of Pages: 674
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