French colonial archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean / edited by Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Kenneth Goodley, 1962-

Hardy, Meredith D. (Meredith Devereaux), 1972-

Florida Museum of Natural History.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history--Southern States.

Archaeology and history.

Archaeology and history--Caribbean Area.

French--Southern States--History.

French.

French--Caribbean Area--History.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Southern States.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Caribbean Area.

Colonies.

History.

France--Colonies--America--History.

France.

America.

Caribbean Area.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

viii, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]

Summary:

Often overlooked, the French colonial presence in the southern United States and Caribbean shaped the history and development of these regions in unique ways. To address this imbalance, Kenneth Kelly and Meredith Hardy have compiled a selection of case studies analyzing and assessing French impact throughout this area.

This innovative collection brings together archaeological research on French colonial sites in Maryland, South Carolina, the Gulf Coast, the lower Mississippi Valley, the Caribbean, and French Guiana. The contributors seek to reveal how French colonial life was both different from and similar to that of Spanish and English settlements, how it influenced the character of the communities, and how French identity was maintained in these locales. Many subjects are examined, including French Huguenots in South Carolina, French colonial and creole cuisine and food technology, the broad concept of creolization, impacts of the French-Chickasaw War in the Louisiana Territory, and even the differences in plantation and slave practices among individuals in various French settlements.

Featuring investigations into both urban and plantation settings, the volume reveals the range of insights archaeological investigations can bring to a wide variety of historical milieux. As a whole, French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean offers a much-needed corrective to the traditional emphasis on British and Spanish colonial sites. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy

French Protestants in South Carolina : the archaeology of a European ethnic minority / Ellen Shlasko

French refugees and slave abuse in Frederick County, Maryland : Jean Payen de Boisneuf and the Vincendiere family at l'Hermitage plantation / Sara Rivers-Cofield

Commoditization of persons, places, and things during Biloxi's second tenure as capital of French colonial Louisiana / Barbara Thedy Hester

The Moran Site (22hr511) : an early-eighteenth-century French colonial cemetery in Noveau Biloxi, Mississippi / Marie Elaine Danforth

The greatest gathering : the Second French-Chickasaw War in the Mississippi Valley and the potential for archaeology / Ann M. Early

Colonial and Creole diets in eighteenth-century New Orleans / Elizabeth M. Scott and Shannon L. Dawdy

Colonoware in western colonial Louisiana : makers and meaning / David W. Morgan and Kevin C. MacDonald

Living on the edge : foodways and early expressions of Creole culture on the French colonial Gulf Coast frontier / Meredith D. Hardy

La vie quotidienne : historical archaeological approaches to the plantation era in Guadeloupe, French West Indies / Kenneth G. Kelly

Archaeological research at Habitation Loyola, French Guiana / Allison Bain, Reginald Auger, and Yannick Le Roux

Commentary / John de Bry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0813036801

9780813036809

OCLC:

668195622

Publisher Number:

99944357786