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Kourou and the struggle for a French America

Title: Kourou and the struggle for a French America / Marion F. Godfroy ; translated by Ly Lan Dill.
Author: Godfroy, Marion F.
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description

xiii, 236 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Kourou and the Struggle for a French America explores the famous enterprise of the French monarchy, taking place immediately after the Seven Years War--the establishment of a French colony in America. Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, directed by the brightest scientific minds of the Enlightenment as they sought to create a new settlement akin to El Dorado. The French government promised free travel, and other advantages never offered before. The settlement was deemed so important that the British government maintained a close eye on its development. However, the fantastic ideal of this new French colonial world became a grand failure, and a political disaster. Kourou marked the end of the French attempts for an American colony, and the shift of attention to Africa and Asia, her 'second' world empire"--

Series Statement

War, culture and society, 1750-1850

Uniform Title

Kourou, 1763. English
War, culture and society, 1750-1850.

Alternative Title

Kourou, 1763.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / by Patrice Higonnet -- 1. Farewell Quebec -- 2. The Kingdom of the Golden King -- 3. Americas -- 4. White Colony -- 5. Forces Present -- 6. Mirages -- 7. From the Rhine to the Atlantic -- 8. Disaster Ahead -- 9. Kourou -- 10. The Trap was Sprung -- 11. Turgot's Disgrace.

Call Number

JFD 15-1890

ISBN

9781137363466 (hardback)
1137363460 (hardback)

LCCN

2014020333

OCLC

881875884

Author

Godfroy, Marion F., author.

Title

Kourou and the struggle for a French America / Marion F. Godfroy ; translated by Ly Lan Dill.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

War, culture and society, 1750-1850

War, culture and society, 1750-1850.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-1890

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