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“marcel giraud”

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  • A History of French Louisiana

    The Reign of Louis XIV, 1698–1715

    by Marcel Giraud ...
    Translated by Joseph C. Lambert ...
    Series series
    Marcel Giraud has long been acknowledged as the leading European scholar in the filed of the history and development of colonial French Louisiana. Now the long-awaited English translation of Volume One of his Histoire de la Louisiana Française makes the results of his meticulous research readily available.Professor Giraud explores all phases of the beginnings of colonization in the vast Louisiana ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A History of French Louisiana

    The Company of the Indies, 1723–1731

    by Marcel Giraud ...
    Translated by Brian Pearce ...
    Series series
    The first four volumes of Marcel Giraud's History of French Louisiana, published in France between 1951 and 1974, represent the most exhaustive and authoritative scholarly study of France's establishment in the lower Mississippi Valley. In this fifth and final volume of Giraud's magnum opus, published in the United States for the first time ain a translation by Brian Pearce, Giraud unravels the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A History of French Louisiana

    Years of Transition, 1715–1717

    by Marcel Giraud ...
    Translated by Brian Pearce ...
    Series series
    The death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the accession of his more progressive younger brother as Regent of France might have brought some hopeful changes to Louisiana, France's tiny, struggling outpost on the Gulf of Mexico. However, the continuation of the debilitating regime of the merchant Antoine Crozat and the extreme impoverishment of the French Treasury Following the disastrous wars of Louis XIV ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Autobiography Of Thomas Jefferson (Mobi Classics)

    by Thomas Jefferson ...
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  • A Great Improvisation

    Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

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    In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career ● Michael Douglas stars in Franklin, premiering April 12 only on Apple TV+In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin--seventy years old, without any diplomatic ... Read more

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  • A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland

    The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

    by John Mack Faragher ...
    "Altogether superb; a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past."--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. ... Read more

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  • The Black Jacobins

    Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

    by C.L.R. James ...
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  • The Acadian Diaspora:An Eighteenth-Century History

    An Eighteenth-Century History

    by Christopher Hodson ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in International History
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  • For Liberty and Glory

    Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions

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  • Mutinous Women

    How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

    by Joan DeJean ...
    The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi ValleyIn 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods for the fledgling French colony, but its principal commodity was a new kind of export: women.Falsely accused ... Read more

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  • Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

    by Thomas Jefferson ...
    In his riveting autobiography, Jefferson details many of the events that shaped his personal philosophy and would ultimately define his political career. Allowing the reader to step into the shoes of the author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, this book is a must for anyone interested in the life and ideals of one of America's most influential Founding ... Read more

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