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Upcoming Book from The Johns Hopkins University Press:
France
and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent?
The first comprehensive
account of colonization and French society in the Caribbean
redefines the French colonial project and sheds new light
on the early transatlantic world.
Describing the geography, topography, climate, and flora and
fauna of the region, Philip P. Boucher recreates the tropical
environment in which colonists and indigenous peoples interacted.
He then examines the lives and activities of the region's
inhabitants---the indigenous Island Caribs, landowning settlers,
indentured servants, African slaves, and people of mixed blood,
the gens de couleur. He argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries were not merely a prelude to the classic plantation
regime model, but were, rather, an era presenting a whole
variety of possible outcomes. This original narrative demonstrates
that the transition to sugar and the plantation complex was
more gradual in the French properties than generally depicted-and
was not inevitable. Visit
the JHU Press website to learn more and purchase this book.
About Philip
P. Boucher, Ph.D.
Born in Hartford, CT. July
22, 1944 to Albert and Loretta Boucher, Dr. Boucher graduated
from the University of Hartford in 1966. He completed his
Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut under Edmund (Tedd)
Dickerman and graduated in 1974. The dissertation title is
"France 'Discovers' America.
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