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Archaeological perspectives on the French in the New World / edited by Elizabeth M. Scott

Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
Physical Description
viii, 280 pages ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Scott, Elizabeth M.

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Contents
An introduction to the archaeology of Francophone communities in the Americas / Elizabeth M. Scott -- Archaeological dimensions of the Acadian diaspora / Steven R. Pendery -- "They are fit to eat the divel and smoak his mother": labor, leisure, tobacco pipes, and smoking customs among French Canadian voyageurs during the fur trade era / Rob Mann -- Food and furs at French Fort St. Joseph / Michael S. Nassaney and Terrance J. Martin -- Landscapes of forgetting and the materiality of enslavement: using class, ethnicity, and gender to search for the invisible on a postcolonial French house lot in the Illinois country / Erin N. Whitson -- Access to first-choice foods and settlement failure at French Azilum / Maureen Costura -- Pots sauvage: plantation pottery traditions of Northwest Louisiana at the end of the eighteenth century / David W. Morgan and Kevin C. MacDonald -- Identity and cultural interaction in French Guiana during the eighteenth century: the case of the storehouse at Habitation Loyola / Antoine Loyer Rousselle and Reginald Auger -- Sugar plantations in the French West Indies: archaeological perspectives from Guadeloupe and Martinique / Kenneth G. Kelly -- Uncovering the French on St. Croix: stories of seventeenth-century settlement and abandonment on the Caribbean frontier / Meredith D. Hardy.
Summary
Archaeology has shown that the French presence and influence in the Americas goes far beyond Québec, New Orleans, and the French and Indian War. This volume serves as a corrective to the narrowness of the study of French contributions to the New World societies.
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9780813054391 hardcover
0813054397 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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