num_pages: 344
description: Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material, Kenneth Banks presents evidence on how France seemed destined to take a leading role in exploiting and settling the Americas and establishing posts in West Africa and why it failed to do so.
language: English
title: Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763
titlecomplete: Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763
genres: France
ratings_count: 16
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize
publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press