Overview
This innovative collection of essays brings together archaeological research on French colonial sites from Maryland, South Carolina, the Gulf Coast and Lower Mississippi Valley, the Caribbean, and French Guiana to explore the nature of French colonisation. Specific contributions explore foodways, ceramics, plantations, architecture, and colonial interactions with Africans and Native Americans, all with an eye to what makes the French colonial endeavour distinct from better-known British or Spanish experience. Crosscutting the volume are such questions as, how are """"French"""" sites different from those of other nationalities, what is the nature of French colonisation, how can archaeology help identify particularly national histories in a given colonial setting, and how was French identity materialised and maintained in the New World?
Full Product Details
Author: Kenneth G. Kelly ,
Meredith D. Hardy
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.456kg
ISBN: 9780813036809
ISBN 10: 0813036801
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 28 August 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Books like this offering diverse views of [French material culture s] grand geographic scope will be useful for historians of the French New World as well as for curators and archivists of regional museums. Winterthur Portfolio Books like this offering diverse views of [French material culture's] grand geographic scope will be useful for historians of the French New World as well as for curators and archivists of regional museums. --Winterthur Portfolio Demonstrates that French colonial archaeology of the region is full of possibilities that are begging for research...[and] should lead to significant new investigations and discoveries. --American Archaeology Essential. --CHOICE Books like this offering diverse views of [French material culture s] grand geographic scope will be useful for historians of the French New World as well as for curators and archivists of regional museums. Winterthur Portfolio Essential. CHOICE Demonstrates that French colonial archaeology of the region is full of possibilities that are begging for research [and] should lead to significant new investigations and discoveries. American Archaeology Demonstrates that French colonial archaeology of the region is full of possibilities that are begging for research [and] should lead to significant new investigations and discoveries. American Archaeology Essential. CHOICE Essential. -- CHOICE
Books like this offering diverse views of [French material culture's] grand geographic scope will be useful for historians of the French New World as well as for curators and archivists of regional museums. -- Winterthur Portfolio
Books like this offering diverse views of [French material culture s] grand geographic scope will be useful for historians of the French New World as well as for curators and archivists of regional museums. Winterthur Portfolio
Author Information
Kenneth G. Kelly is professor of anthropology at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches historical archaeology and African archaeology. || Meredith D. Hardy is an archaeologist with the National Park Service-Southeast Archeological Center.
