Kenneth J. Banks

Chasing Empire across the Sea (eBook, PDF)

Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;empire"e; 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780773570641
• Artikelnr.: 37855035

Autorenporträt

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.