Kourou and the Struggle for a French America
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 30, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781137363466
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Kourou and the Struggle for a French America (War, Culture and Society, 1750 –1850)