Sons of the soil
Subtitle: the Maingots and the French creoles in Trinidad history
By: Anthony P. Maingot
Publisher: [Createspace Independent Publishing Platform]
Published: 2018
Place of publication: North Charleston, South Carolina?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781719543743
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Creoles; Biography; French; History
Other titles: Maingots and the French Creoles in Trinidad history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Writing on the French Creoles in 1962 and 2017; title: The Maingots of Surgères, France; title: Bordeaux: the Maingots of a bourgeois city; title: Spanish Trinidad in 1786: fundamentals of Spanish imperial rule; title: The first "wave" of French colinists in Trinidad: what attracted them? The role of Roume de St. Laurent; title: Contextualizing his marriage contract; title: Joseph Étienne Maingot and the Great Port-of-Spain fire of 1808: the socio-economic context; title: Joseph Étienne Maingot leaves for Lyon. Why?; title: What kind of of society should Trinidad be? Important debates; title: Cocoa: establishing the French Creole economy; title: Consolodating the French Creole identity: race, endogamy, education, and religion; title: The Maingots in World War I; title: for God and country but with France in their hearts; title: The tenuous transition to self-government; title: French Creoles in the reformist press; title: Aurthur Cipriani and the end of an era: too radical for a French Creole, too Catholic conservative for the rebelious masses; title: Trinidad's plural society and the undeniable legacy of the French Creoles. Appendices. Definition of the term Creole/Criollo ; Myth of the aristrocratic status ; Joseph Etienne Maingot timeline ; Freemasonary in Trinidad ; Rodney Maingot; title: obituary, Lancet ; French Creole families ; De Verteuil family ; Maingots in WWI ; Newspaper column by C.L.R. James.