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French and Indians in the heart of North America, 1630-1815

Title
French and Indians in the heart of North America, 1630-1815 / edited by Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale.
ISBN
9781609173609 (ebook)
1609173600 (ebook)
9781611860740 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1611860741 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2013.
Physical Description
xxxiii, 219 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Notes
Consists mainly of papers concerning the history of French-Indian relations in the colonial Great Lakes region and Mississippi River Valley presented at the annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society in 2008.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction: French and Indians in the heart of North America / Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale
"Faire la chaudiere": the Wendat Feast of Souls, 1636 / Kathryn Magee Labelle
Natives, newcomers and nicotiana: tobacco in the history of the Great Lakes / Christopher M. Parsons
The terms of encounter: language and contested visions of French colonization
In the Illinois Country, 1673-1702 / Robert Michael Morrissey
"Gascon exaggerations": the rise of Antoine Laumet (dit de Lamothe, Sieur de Cadillac), the foundation of colonial Detroit, and the origins of the Fox Wars / Richard Weyhing
"Protection" and "unequal alliance": the French conception of sovereignty over the Indians in New France / Gilles Havard
The French and the Natchez: a failed encounter / Arnaud Balvay
From subjects to citizens: two Pierres and the French influence on the transformation of the Illinois Country / John Reda
Blue beads, vermilion, and scalpers: the social economy of the 1810-1812 Astorian Overland Expedition's French-Canadian voyageurs / Nicole St-Onge.
Also listed under
Englebert, Robert.
Teasdale, Guillaume.
French Colonial Historical Society.
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