Title: In search of empire
Subtitle: the French in the Americas, 1670-1730
First published: 2004
Description: The decades between 1670 and 1730 were the most formative in the history of the French colonies in the Americas. A sufficient number of migrants arrived from France and Africa to create settlements, establish economies of production, develop networks of exchange and trade, and adapt institutions of government and law to give substance and form to their resulting societies. In Search of  Empire is the first full account of how during these years French settlers came to the Americas. It examines how they and thousands of African slaves together with American Indians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much new evidence, the author explores how the newly constructed societies and new economies, without precedent in France, interacted with the growing international violence in the Atlantic world in order to present a fresh perspective of the multifarious French colonizing experience in the Americas.
Subjects: History, French, Colonies, Frontier and pioneer life, Ethnic relations, French, united states, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, America, foreign relations, Nonfiction
Places: America, France
Time periods: 17th century, To 1810, 18th century
LC classification: E29.F8 P75 2004