Archaeological Perspectives on the French in the New World
Archaeological Perspectives on the French in the New World
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Abstract
This collection offers a new understanding of communities of French heritage in the New World, drawing on archaeological and historical evidence from both colonial and post-Conquest settings. It counters the prevailing but mistaken notion that the French role in New World histories was confined largely to Québec and New Orleans and lasted only through the French and Indian War. Some chapters in the volume reveal new insights into French colonial communities, while others concern the post-Conquest Francophone communities that thrived under British, Spanish, or American control, long after France relinquished its colonies in the New World. The authors in this collection engage in a dialogue about what it meant to be ethnic French or a French descendant, Métis, Native American, enslaved, or a free person of color in French areas of North America, the Caribbean, and South America from the late 1600s until the late 1800s. The authors combine archaeological remains (from artifacts to food remains to cultural landscapes) with a rich body of historical records to help reveal the roots of present-day New World societies. This volume makes clear that, along with Spanish, British, and early American colonial influences, French colonists and their descendant communities played an important role in New World histories, and continue to do so.
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An Introduction to the Archaeology of Francophone Communities in the Americas
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Archaeological Dimensions of the Acadian Diaspora
Steven R. Pendery
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“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
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Food and Furs at French Fort St. Joseph
Michael S. Nassaney andTerrance J. Martin
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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
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Access to First-Choice Foods and Settlement Failure at French Azilum
Maureen Costura
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Pots Sauvage: Plantation Pottery Traditions of Northwest Louisiana at the End of the Eighteenth Century
David W. Morgan andKevin C. Macdonald
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Identity and Cultural Interaction in French Guiana during the Eighteenth Century: The Case of the Storehouse at Habitation Loyola
Antoine Loyer Rousselle andRéginald Auger
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Sugar Plantations in the French West Indies: Archaeological Perspectives from Guadeloupe and Martinique
Kenneth G. Kelly
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Uncovering the French on St. Croix: Stories of Seventeenth-Century Settlement and Abandonment on the Caribbean Frontier
Meredith D. Hardy
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