Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763

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Banks defines and applies the idea that of communications in a far broader context than previous historical studies of communication, encompassing a range of human activity from sailing routes, to mapping, to presses, to building roads and bridges. He employs a comparative analysis of early brand new French imperialism, integrating three sorts of in a foreign country possessions frequently thought to be one by one – the settlement colony (New France), the tropical monoculture colony (the French Windward Islands), and the early Enlightenment planned colony (Louisiana) – offering a work of synthesis that unites the historiographies and insights from three formerly separate historical literatures. Banks challenges the very notion that a concrete “empire” emerged by the first half of the eighteenth century; in truth, French colonies remained in large part isolated arenas of action and development. Only with the contraction and concentration of in a foreign country possessions after 1763 at the Plantation Complex did a more cohesive, if fleeting, French empire first emerge.
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