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French connections, cultural mobility in North America and the Atlantic world, 1600-1875, edited by Robert Englebert & Andrew N. Wegmann

eng

aIncludes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

French connections

1157460259

edited by Robert Englebert & Andrew N. Wegmann

cultural mobility in North America and the Atlantic world, 1600-1875

" 'French Connections' examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875. Engaging a wide range of topics, from religious and diplomatic performance to labor migration, racialization, and both imagined and real conceptualizations of "Frenchness" and "Frenchification," this volume argues that cultural mobility was fundamental to the development of French colonial societies and the collective identities they housed. Cases of cultural formation and dislocation in places as diverse as Quebec, the Illinois Country, Detroit, Haiti, Acadia, New England, and France itself demonstrate the broad variability of French cultural mobility that took place throughout this massive geographical space. Nevertheless, these communities shared the same cultural root in the midst of socially and politically fluid landscapes, where cultural mobility came to define, and indeed sustain, communal and individual identities in French North America and the Atlantic World. Drawing on innovative new scholarship on Louisiana and New Orleans, the editors and contributors to "French Connections" look to refocus the conversation surrounding French colonial interconnectivity by thinking about mobility as a constitutive condition of culture; from this perspective, separate "spheres" of French colonial culture merge to reveal a broader, more cohesive cultural world. The comprehensive scope of this collection will attract scholars of French North America, early American history, Atlantic World history, Caribbean studies, Canadian studies, and frontier studies. With essays from established, award-winning scholars such as Brett Rushforth, Leslie Choquette, Jay Gitlin, and Christopher Hodson as well as from new, progressive thinkers such as Mairi Cowan, William Brown, Karen L. Marrero, and Robert D. Taber, 'French Connections' promises to generate interest and value across an extensive and diverse range of concentrations"--, Provided by publisher

Patchwork and Pathways in French Colonial History / Robert Englebert and Andrew N. Wegmann -- A Deliverance from Demons: Possession and Healing at the Seigneurie of Beauport / Mairi Cowan -- Mask of the Colonizer: French Men, Native Passions, and the Culture of Diplomacy in New France / William Brown -- The Ancien Régime Culture of Labor Mobility and Migration to New France / Leslie Choquette -- A French Huguenot's Career as a British Colonial Administrator in Acadie/Nova -- Scotia/Mi'gma'ki, 1710-1750 / Gregory Kennedy and Vincent Auffrey -- The Trials of Brother Chrétien: A Case of Ruin and Redemption in the French Atlantic / Christopher Hodson -- Family Formation, Race, and Honor in Colonial Haiti's Free Communities, 1670-1789 / Robert D. Taber -- From Voyageurs to Emigrants: Leaving the St. Lawrence Valley for the Detroit River Borderland, 1796-1846 / Guillaume Teasdale and Karen L. Marrero -- Making Indians in the American Backcountry: Récits de voyage, Cultural Mobility, and Imagining Empire in the Age of Revolutions / Robert Englebert -- Chasing La Chasse-Galerie: Honoré Beaugrand and the Life of a Journalistic Voyageur / Jay Gitlin and Ryan André Brasseaux -- Epilogue: "Next Stop, Honoré Beaugrand": Connections, Dislocations, and Redirections / Brett Rushforth

Cultural mobility in North America and the Atlantic world, 1600-1875