The French Atlantic
Travels in Culture and History
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
The French Atlantic is a compelling and timely contribution to ongoing debates about nationhood, culture, and “Frenchness” that have come to define France and its diaspora in light of the diplomatic fracas surrounding the Iraq war and other mass cultural events. With interdisciplinary navigation of fields nearly as diverse as the locations he explores, Bill Marshall considers the cultural history of seven different French Atlantic spaces—from Quebec to the southern Caribbean to North Atlantic territory and back to metropolitan France—in this groundbreaking study of the Atlantic world.
“A truly original and very engaging book that will be of great interest to readers in French, Francophone, and Atlantic studies.”—Christopher L. Miller, Yale University
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The French Atlantic
1 Passages of Nantes
2 Secrets of La Rochelle
3 'Even way up yonder among the fish' - Islands and Frontiers at Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
4 Bridges and Walls in Quebec City
5 Common Routes to New Orleans
6 Speaking and Dancing in Cayenne
7 Montevideo's Arrivals and Departures
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
History: European History
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