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Kourou and the Struggle for a French America
Marion F. Godfroy
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Description for Kourou and the Struggle for a French America
Paperback. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, a French colony in America after the Seven Years War in 1763. However, the fantastic ideal became a grand failure and political disaster, marking the end of the French attempts for an American colony.
Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, a French colony in America after the Seven Years War in 1763. However, the fantastic ideal became a grand failure and political disaster, marking the end of the French attempts for an American colony.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
Series
War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
Number of Pages
249
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349473021
SKU
V9781349473021
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Marion F. Godfroy
Marion Godfroy is Associate Researcher at Université de la Sorbonne Paris I, France. She is a French historian, the award-winning author of four historical books.
Reviews for Kourou and the Struggle for a French America
“Godfroy presents an engaging analysis of this fascinating chapter in French colonial history. While her study says little about interactions between Europeans and native peoples, unlike many recent works in Atlantic colonial history, she offers helpful detail about the officials who planned the mission as well as the would-be colonists. In doing so, she provides a fresh view of why ... Read more