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

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject French -- North America -- Antiquities.
French.
North America.
Antiquities.
Archaeology and history -- North America.
Archaeology and history.
French -- North America -- History.
History.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Scott, Elizabeth M., editor.
ISBN 9780813052694 (electronic book)
0813052696 (electronic book)
9780813054391
0813054397