Marc-antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana - Trade in the French Atlantic World

Informationen zum Autor Erin M. Greenwald is curator and historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection and the editor of A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies . Klappentext "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, and the purchase and exportation of Louisiana-grown tobacco. In [her book], Erin M. Greenwald situates the colony within a French Atlantic circuit stretching from Paris and the Brittany coast to Africa's Senegambian region to the West Indies to Louisiana and back"-- Zusammenfassung Between 1717 and 1731, the French Company of the Indies held a virtual monopoly over Louisiana culture and trade. Focusing on the travels and travails of Marc-Antoine Caillot, a company clerk who set sail for Louisiana in 1729, Greenwald deftly examines the company's role as colonizer, developer, slaveholder, commercial entity, and deal maker.

Product details

• Authors: Erin Greenwald, Erin M Greenwald, Erin M. Greenwald
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2016
• EAN: 9780807162859
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-6285-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Frankreich, Amerikanische Geschichte, HISTORY / Europe / France, USA: Kolonisierung und Besiedlung (ca. 1600 bis 1775), HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History - U.S., USA Süden, South Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)