Louisiana : crossroads of the Atlantic world / edited by Cecile Vidal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vidal, Cécile.

Series:

Early American studies.

Early American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Louisiana--History.

African Americans.

Enslaved persons--Louisiana.

Enslaved persons.

Atlantic Ocean Region--History--19th century.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Atlantic Ocean Region--History--18th century.

Louisiana--Social life and customs.

Louisiana.

Louisiana--Ethnic relations.

Louisiana--History--1803-1865.

Louisiana--History--To 1803.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Located at the junction of North America and the Caribbean, the vast territory of colonial Louisiana provides a paradigmatic case study for an Atlantic studies approach. One of the largest North American colonies and one of the last to be founded, Louisiana was governed by a succession of sovereignties, with parts ruled at various times by France, Spain, Britain, and finally the United States. But just as these shifting imperial connections shaped the territory's culture, Louisiana's peculiar geography and history also yielded a distinctive colonization pattern that reflected a synthesis of continent and island societies. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World offers an exceptional collaboration among American, Canadian, and European historians who explore colonial and antebellum Louisiana's relations with the rest of the Atlantic world. Studying the legacy of each period of Louisiana history over the longue durée, the essays create a larger picture of the ways early settlements influenced Louisiana society and how the changes in sovereignty and other circulations gave rise to a multiethnic society. Contributors examine the workings of empire through the examples of slave laws, administrative careers or on-the-ground political negotiations, cultural exchanges among landowners, slave holders, and slaves, and the construction of race through sexuality, marriage, and household formation. As a whole, the volume makes the compelling argument that one cannot write Louisiana history without adopting an Atlantic perspective, or Atlantic history without referring to Louisiana. Contributors: Guillaume Aubert, Emily Clark, Alexandre Dubé, Sylvia R. Frey, Sylvia L. Hilton, Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, Cécile Vidal, Sophie White, Mary Williams.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction. Louisiana in Atlantic Perspective

Chapter 1. “To Establish One Law and Definite Rules”: Race, Religion, and the Transatlantic Origins of the Louisiana Code Noir

Chapter 2. Making a Career out of the Atlantic: Louisiana’s Plume

Chapter 3. Spanish Louisiana in Atlantic Contexts: Nexus of Imperial Transactions and International Relations

Chapter 4. Slaves and Poor Whites’ Informal Economies in an Atlantic Context

Chapter 5. “Un Nègre nommè [sic] Lubin ne connaissant pas Sa Nation”: The Small World of Louisiana Slavery

Chapter 6. Caribbean Louisiana: Church, Métissage, and the Language of Race in the Mississippi Colony during the French Period

Chapter 7. Private Lives and Public Orders: Regulating Sex, Marriage, and Legitimacy in Spanish Colonial Louisiana

Chapter 8. Atlantic Alliances: Marriage among People of African Descent in New Orleans

Conclusion. Beyond Borders: Revising Atlantic History

Notes

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 3, 2013).

ISBN:

9780812208733

0812208730

OCLC:

864393729