Loading…

Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana : Trade in the French Atlantic World /

"Between 1717 and 1731, the French Company of the Indies (Compagnie des Indes) held a virtual monopoly over Louisiana culture and trade. Among numerous controls, its administrators oversaw the slave trade, the immigration of free and indentured whites, negotiations with Native American peoples,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenwald, Erin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The company in France
  • Approaching the Atlantic world
  • Tropical baptisms
  • Stopping over : provisioning and acculturation
  • Louisiana : a company colony
  • A colony fit only for a king?
  • Epilogue: Embracing India.