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Iberville's Gulf journals [electronic resource].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iberville, Pierre.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French--Gulf States--History--Sources.
- French--Mississippi River Valley--History--Sources.
- Le Moyne d’Iberville, Pierre, 1661-1706.
- Local Subjects:
- French--Gulf States--History--Sources.
- French--Mississippi River Valley--History--Sources.
- Le Moyne d’Iberville, Pierre, 1661-1706.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Alabama : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- Europe's expansion into the New World during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries was a story of power alignment and cultural transmission as well as dramatic individual effort. Spain had her conquistadores, France her coureurs de bois, and England her sea dogs. Isolated from the authority of home governments, tempted by the abundance of gold, fur, and fish in the New World, these adventurers so vital to national policies of expansion developed their own personal creeds of conquest and colonization. Their individual exploits not only represent a humanistic th
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville and the Competition for Empire / Tennant S. McWilliams; Iberville's Gulf Journals; First Voyage to the Mississippi: The Journal of the Badine; Second Voyage to the Mississippi: The Journal of the Renommée; Third Voyage to the Mississippi: The Journal of the Renommée; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-24967-9
- OCLC:
- 664233621
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