Proceedings of the Sixteenth Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, Mackinac Island, May 1990
Author: French Colonial Historical Society. Meeting
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 208
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 208
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: French Colonial Historical Society. Meeting
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This particular volume of proceedings has a concentration of papers on Africa, South Asia, and the South Pacific. Contributors include Olive Patricia Dickason, James Pritchard, Peter Moogk, Keith R. Widder, Kolleen M. Cross, David Prochaska, William I. Shorrock, Margaret O. Mchane, Edward Peter Fitzgerald, Glenn Joseph Ames, William F.S. Miles, Jonathan A. Bone and Kim Munholland. Co-published with the French Colonial Historical Society.
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Published: 1997
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gilbert C. Din
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780890969045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves is a provocative look at the institution of slavery and how it functioned as a part of Louisiana's culture during the years of Spanish rule. Gilbert C. Din challenges the idea that conditions under the Spaniards differed little from the years of French rule and examines how local culture merged with colonial government and residual laws to create a slave system unlike any other in the Deep South. Din presents many aspects of the slavery issue, including a look at the French system, conflicts between planters who favored the established system and governors who promoted the less stringent Spanish laws, and the political favoritism that sought to benefit the wealthy New Orleans district. Din also discusses the role of the Catholic Church and debates the commonly held idea that the church's influence made Spanish slavery less brutal, asserting instead that its role in most areas was insignificant and largely observational. Using government documents from archives in Spain and Louisiana, Din paints a historically accurate portrait of a time when the blended culture of the eighteenth-century colony resulted in conflict and turmoil. Most important are the Papeles Procedentes de la Isla de Cuba, a collection of colonial documents that illustrate not only the actions but also the personalities of the governors and how they implemented changes and handled problems within the slave system. Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves is the first in its field to capture the years of Spanish rule as a specific and unique point in Louisiana's history of slavery. Din's research uncovers both the complexities of the slavery issue and the Spanish heritage that ultimatelyhelped to shape the slave system of the future state. It is an ideal study for anyone interested in the history of both colonial Louisiana and slavery itself.
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Published: 1987
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Published: 1990
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl J. Ekberg
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780252069246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Book Prize for the Best Book on Louisiana History, French Roots in the Illinois Country creates an entirely new picture of the Illinois country as a single ethnic, economic, and cultural entity. Focusing on the French Creole communities along the Mississippi River, Carl J. Ekberg shows how land use practices such as medieval-style open-field agriculture intersected with economic and social issues ranging from the flour trade between Illinois and New Orleans to the significance of the different mentalities of French Creoles and Anglo-Americans.
Author: Margaret Kimball Brown
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2013-11-27
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0809333414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“History as They Lived It deserves to be placed within the rich context of Illinois Country historiography going back more than a century. . . . It brings together the fully ripened thoughts of a mature scholar at the very moment that students of the Illinois Country need such a book.”—from the foreword by Carl J. Ekberg Settled in 1722, Prairie du Rocher was at the geographic center of a French colony in the Mississippi Valley, which also included other villages in what is now Illinois and Missouri: Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Fort de Chartres, St. Philippe, Ste. Genevieve, and St. Louis. Located in an alluvial valley near towering limestone bluffs, which inspired the village’s name—French for “prairie of the rock”— Prairie du Rocher is the only one of the seven French colonial villages that still exists today as a small compact community. The village of Prairie du Rocher endured governance by France, Great Britain, Virginia, and the Illinois territory before Illinois became a state in 1818. Despite these changes, the villagers persisted in maintaining the community and its values. Margaret Kimball Brown looks at one of the oldest towns in the region through the lenses of history and anthropology, utilizing extensive research in archives and public records to give historians, anthropologists, and general readers a lively depiction of this small community and its people.
Author: Peter Schrijvers
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2005-03
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0814740154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Choice Outstanding Academic Title Even in the midst of World War II, Americans could not help thinking of the lands across the Pacific as a continuation of the American Western frontier. But this perception only heightened American soldiers' frustration as the hostile region ferociously resisted their attempts at control. The GI War Against Japan recounts the harrowing experiences of American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific. Based on countless diaries and letters, it sweeps across the battlefields, from the early desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at war's very end. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theater to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Schrijvers brings to life the GIs’ struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Amidst the frustration and despair of this war, American soldiers abandoned themselves to an escalating rage that presaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The GI’s story is, first and foremost, the story of America's resounding victory over Japan. At the same time, however, the reader will recognize in the extraordinarily high price paid for this victory chilling forebodings of the West’s ultimate defeat in Asia’and America’s in Vietnam.