Chasing Empire Across The Sea
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Chasing Empire Across The Sea
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Author : Kenneth J. Banks
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2002
Chasing Empire Across The Sea written by Kenneth J. Banks and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.
Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material from archives and research libraries in Canada, France, and the United States, Kenneth Banks details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing a tradition of maritime interest in the Americas and West Africa dating back to the earliest years of the sixteenth century, seemed destined to take a leading role in exploiting and settling the Americas and establishing posts in West Africa. That it largely failed to do so can be explained in large part by problems emanating from information exchange in an early modern authoritarian state. Banks provides a historical context for the role of communications in the development of the imperial nation-state and offers an Atlantic World perspective on the growing body of literature revising the historical role of absolutism.
Distance And Documents At The Spanish Empire S Periphery
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Author : Sylvia Sellers-García
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-11
Distance And Documents At The Spanish Empire S Periphery written by Sylvia Sellers-García and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-11 with History categories.
The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire. This book takes up these unknowns and proposes that by examining how documents operated in the Spanish empire, we can better understand how the empire was built and, most importantly, how knowledge was created. The author argues that even in such a vast realm, knowledge was built locally by people who existed at the peripheries of empire. Organized along routes and centralized into local nodes, peripheral knowledge accumulated in regional centers before moving on to the heart of the empire in Spain. The study takes the Kingdom of Guatemala as its departure point and examines the related aspects of documents and distance in three sections: part one looks at document genre, and how the creation of documents was shaped by distance; part two looks at the movement of documents and the workings of the mail system; part three looks at document storage and how archives played an essential part in the flow of paper.
Heirs Of An Ambivalent Empire
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Author : Scott Berthelette
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2022-07-19
Heirs Of An Ambivalent Empire written by Scott Berthelette and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-19 with History categories.
The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone. Though the Canadiens worked for French colonial authorities, they were not unwavering agents of imperial power. Increasingly they found themselves between two worlds as they built relationships with Indigenous communities, sometimes joining them through adoption or marriage, raising families of their own. The result was an ambivalent empire that grew in fits and starts. It was guided by imperfect information, built upon a contested Indigenous borderland, fragmented by local interests, and periodically neglected by government administrators. Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of the Canadiens who used family and kinship ties to navigate between sovereign Indigenous nations and the French colonial government from the early 1660s to the 1780s. Acting as cultural intermediaries, the Canadiens made it possible for France to extend its presence into northwest North America. Over time, however, their uncertain relationships with the French colonial state splintered imperial authority, leading to an outcome that few could have foreseen – the emergence of a new Indigenous culture, language, people, and nation: the Métis.
Apostles Of Empire
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Author : Bronwen McShea
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2022
Apostles Of Empire written by Bronwen McShea and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
Apostles of Empire contributes to ongoing research on the Jesuits, New France, and Atlantic World encounters, as well as on early modern French society, print culture, Catholicism, and imperialism.
The Origins Of Canadian And American Political Differences
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Author : Jason Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-16
The Origins Of Canadian And American Political Differences written by Jason Kaufman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-16 with History categories.
Why do the United States and Canada have such divergent political cultures when they share one of the closest economic and cultural relationships in the world? Kaufman examines the North American political landscape to draw out the essential historical factors that underlie the countries’ differences.
Pirate Nests And The Rise Of The British Empire 1570 1740
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Author : Mark G. Hanna
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-10-22
Pirate Nests And The Rise Of The British Empire 1570 1740 written by Mark G. Hanna and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with History categories.
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns. English piracy and unregulated privateering flourished in the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean because of merchant elites' active support in the North American colonies. Sea marauders represented a real as well as a symbolic challenge to legal and commercial policies formulated by distant and ineffectual administrative bodies that undermined the financial prosperity and defense of the colonies. Departing from previous understandings of deep-sea marauding, this study reveals the full scope of pirates' activities in relation to the landed communities that they serviced and their impact on patterns of development that formed early America and the British Empire.
Louisiana
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Author : Cecile Vidal
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014
Louisiana written by Cecile Vidal and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World offers an exceptional collaboration between American, Canadian, and European historians who explore the many ways and means of colonial Louisiana's relations with the rest of the Atlantic world.
Beyond Empires Global Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks 1500 1800
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-06-10
Beyond Empires Global Self Organizing Cross Imperial Networks 1500 1800 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-10 with History categories.
Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized cooperative networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state.
The French Atlantic Triangle
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Author : Christopher L. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-11
The French Atlantic Triangle written by Christopher L. Miller and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-11 with History categories.
The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on the cultures of France and its colonies has received surprisingly little attention. Until recently, France had not publicly acknowledged its history as a major slave-trading power. The distinguished scholar Christopher L. Miller proposes a thorough assessment of the French slave trade and its cultural ramifications, in a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. This magisterial work is the first comprehensive examination of the French Atlantic slave trade and its consequences as represented in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean. Miller offers a historical introduction to the cultural and economic dynamics of the French slave trade, and he shows how Enlightenment thinkers such as Montesquieu and Voltaire mused about the enslavement of Africans, while Rousseau ignored it. He follows the twists and turns of attitude regarding the slave trade through the works of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century French writers, including Olympe de Gouges, Madame de Staël, Madame de Duras, Prosper Mérimée, and Eugène Sue. For these authors, the slave trade was variously an object of sentiment, a moral conundrum, or an entertaining high-seas “adventure.” Turning to twentieth-century literature and film, Miller describes how artists from Africa and the Caribbean—including the writers Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, and the filmmakers Ousmane Sembene, Guy Deslauriers, and Roger Gnoan M’Bala—have confronted the aftermath of France’s slave trade, attempting to bridge the gaps between silence and disclosure, forgetfulness and memory.
Misinformation Nation
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Author : Jordan E. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-10-11
Misinformation Nation written by Jordan E. Taylor and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with History categories.
"To understand the American Revolution and the early republic, the author argues that we must attend to the descriptive truths--statements about the nature of the world and its politics--that the revolutionaries believed. The author draws on a large set of US and Canadian newspapers to show how Americans used information, and misinformation, from foreign newspapers to frame their political realities"--