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Chasing Empire across the Sea
Kenneth J. Banks
其他書名
Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2002-11-21
主題Political Science / Political Process / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN07735706409780773570641
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uCl4dSGQ6V8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Banks defines and applies the concept of communications in a far broader context than previous historical studies of communication, encompassing a range of human activity from sailing routes, to mapping, to presses, to building roads and bridges. He employs a comparative analysis of early modern French imperialism, integrating three types of overseas possessions usually considered separately - the settlement colony (New France), the tropical monoculture colony (the French Windward Islands), and the early Enlightenment planned colony (Louisiana) - offering a work of synthesis that unites the historiographies and insights from three formerly separate historical literatures. Banks challenges the very notion that a concrete "empire" emerged by the first half of the eighteenth century; in fact, French colonies remained largely isolated arenas of action and development. Only with the contraction and concentration of overseas possessions after 1763 on the Plantation Complex did a more cohesive, if fleeting, French empire first emerge.