Bibliograph

Louisiana, crossroads of the Atlantic world, edited by Cécile Vidal

Type

Label

Louisiana, crossroads of the Atlantic world, edited by Cécile Vidal

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Louisiana

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

842880480

Responsibility statement

edited by Cécile Vidal

Series statement

Early American studies

Sub title

crossroads of the Atlantic world

Summary

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World offers an exceptional collaboration among American, Canadian, and European historians who explore colonial and antebellum Louisiana's relations with the rest of the Atlantic world. Studying the legacy of each period of Louisiana history over the longue durée, the essays create a larger picture of the ways early settlements influenced Louisiana society and how the changes in sovereignty and other circulations gave rise to a multiethnic society. Contributors examine the workings of empire through the examples of slave laws, administrative careers or on-the-ground political negotiations, cultural exchanges among landowners, slave holders, and slaves, and the construction of race through sexuality, marriage, and household formation. As a whole, the volume makes the compelling argument that one cannot write Louisiana history without adopting an Atlantic perspective, or Atlantic history without referring to Louisiana --, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

"To establish one law and definite rules": race, religion, and the transatlantic origins of the Louisiana code noir / Guillaume Aubert -- Making a career out of the Atlantic: Louisiana's plume / Alexandre Dubé -- Spanish Louisiana in Atlantic contexts: nexus of imperial transactions and international relations / Sylvia L. Hilton -- Slaves and poor whites' informal economies in an Atlantic context / Sophie White -- "Un negre nommè [sic] Lubin ne connaissant pas sa nation": the small world of Louisiana slavery / Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec -- Caribbean Louisiana: church, métissage, and the language of race in the Mississippi colony during the French period / Cécile Vidal -- Private lives and public orders: regulating sex, marriage, and legitimacy in Spanish colonial Louisiana / Mary Williams -- Atlantic alliances: marriages among people of African descent in New Orleans / Emily Clark -- Conclusion-beyond borders: revising Atlantic history / Sylvia R. Frey

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