French Exploration and Explorers | French Colonization and the Americas | Canada and the St. Lawrence Valley | The Great Lakes Region | Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley | The Caribbean | Colonial Conflicts | France and the Early United States

French Exploration and Explorers

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Books for Children and Young Adults

Blue, Rose, and Corinne J. Naden. Exploring Northeastern America. Chicago: Raintree, 2003.

Coulter, Tony. Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and the Explorers of Canada .New York: Chelsea House, 1993.

Donaldson-Forbes, Jeff. La Salle. New York: PowerKids, 2002.

Fournier, Martin. Pierre-Esprit Radisson: Merchant Adventurer, 1636-1701 . Translated by Mary E. Brennan-Ricard. Sillery, Quebec: Septentrion, 2001.

Greene, Meg. Jacques Cartier: Navigating the St. Lawrence River. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2004.

Harmon, Daniel, E. The Early French Explorers of North America. Philadelphia: Mason Crest, 2003.

Harmon, Daniel E. Jacques Cartier and the Exploration of Canada. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2001.

Humble, Richard. The Voyages of Jacques Cartier. New York: Franklin Watts, 1992.

Jenish, D’Arcy. Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Kline, Trish. Ponce de Leon . Discover the Life of an Explorer series. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke, 2002.

Larkin, Tanya. Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet: Explorers of the Mississippi . New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2004.

Livesey, Robert, and A.G. Smith. The Rebels . Discovering Canada Series. Toronto: Stoddart Kids, 2000.

Mitchell, Mark G. Raising La Belle: The Story of the La Salle Shipwreck. Austin: Eakin, 2002.

Molzahn, Arlene Bourgeois. La Salle: Explorer of the Mississippi. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2004.

Moore, Christopher. The Big Book of Canada: Exploring the Provinces and Territories . Illustrated by Bill Slavin. Plattsburgh, NY: Tundra Books of Northern New York, 2002.

Payment, Simone. La Salle: Claiming the Mississippi River for France. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2004.

Sherman, Josepha. Samuel de Champlain: Explorer of the Great Lakes Region and Founder of Quebec. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2003.

The United States and Canada . Needham, Mass: Prentice, 2002.

Books for General Readers

Armstrong, Joe C. W. Champlain. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1987.

Foster, William C., ed. The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River: A Lost Manuscript of Nicolas de La Salle, 1682. Translated by Johanna S. Warren. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2003.

Johnson, Donald S. La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico . New York: Cooper Square, 2002.

Julien, Charles André. Les voyages de découverte et les premiers établissements. Paris: Gérard Monfort, 1979.

Konstam, Angus. Historical Atlas of Exploration: 1492-1600. New York: Checkmark Books, 2000.

Litalien, Raymonde. Les explorateurs de l’Amérique du Nord, 1492-1795. Sillery and Quebec: Septentrion, c1993.

Margry, Pierre. Les navigations françaises et la révolution maritime du XVIe siècle. Paris, 1867.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France. Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1972.

Parkman, Francis. La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West . New York: Modern Library, 1999.

Pope, Peter, Edward. The Many Landfalls of John Cabot .Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Schwartz, Seymour I. The Mapping of America. Edison, NJ: Wellfleet, 2001.

French Colonization and the Americas

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Books for Children and Young Adults

Anastasio, Dina. Pirates. Illustrated by Donald Cook. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1997.

Demos, John. The Tried and the True: Native American Women Confronting Colonization. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Holbrook, Sabra. The French Founders of North America and their Heritage. New York: Atheneum, 1976.

Lasky, Kathryn. A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple. Dear America Series. New York: Scholastic, 1996.

Maestro, Betsy. The New Americans: Colonial Times: 1620-1689. Illustrated by Maestro Giulio. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1996.

Parker, Lewis K. French Colonies in the Americas. European Colonies in the Americas Series. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, PowerKids, 2003.

Rossi, Ann. Cultures Collide: Native American and Europeans, 1492-1700. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2004.

Thompson, Julie, and Brownie Macintosh. A Pirate's Life for Me! A Day Aboard a Pirate Ship. Illustrated by Patrick O’Brien. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 1996.

Wren, Laura Lee. Pirates and Privateers of the High Seas. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2003.

Abenon, Lucien R., and John A. Dickinson. Les Français en Amérique : histoire d’une colonisation . Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1993.

Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800. New York: Verso, 1997.

Boucher, Philip P. Les Nouvelles Frances / France in America, 1500-1815: An Imperial Perspective. Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1989.

Calloway, Colin G. New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Cohen, William B. The French Encounter with Africans: White Response to Blacks, 1530–1880. 2d ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Davis, Ralph. The Rise of the Atlantic Economies. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973.

Exquemelin, Alexander O. The Buccaneers of America. Introduction and Notes by Robert C. Ritchie. Classics of Naval Literature Series. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993.

Haudrère, Philippe. L’Empire des rois, 1500-1789. Paris: Denoël, 1997.

Havard, Gilles, and Cécile Vidal. Histoire de l’Amérique française . Paris: Flammarion, 2003.

Meinig, D. W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Volume I: Atlantic America, 1492-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

Meyer, Jean, et al. Histoire de la France coloniale, [Volume One]: Des origins à 1914 . Paris: Armand Colin, 1991.

Pétré-Grenouilleau, Olivier. Les Négoces maritimes français, XVIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Belin, 1997.

Pluchon, Pierre. Histoire de la colonisation française. Paris: Fayard, 1991.

Schwartz, Seymour I. The Mismapping of America. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003.

Taylor, Alan. American Colonies. New York: Viking, 2001.

Allaire, Bernard. Pelleteries, manchons et chapeaux de castor: Les fourrures nord-américaines à Paris, 1500-1632 . Sillery: Septentrion; Presses de l’Université de la Sorbonne, 1999.

Axtell, James. Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Axtell, James, The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Axtell, James, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. New York, Oxford University Press, 1985.

Banks, Kenneth J. Chasing Empire across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.

Brunelle, Gayle. The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559-1630. Kirkville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal, 1991.

Canny, Nicolas, ed. Europeans on the Move: Studies in European Migration, 1500-1800 . Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.

Crouzet, François M. Britain, France, and International Commerce: from Louis XIV to Victoria. Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1996.

Kadish, Doris Y., and Francoise Massardier–Kenney, eds. Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783–1823. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994.

Lestringant, Frank. Le Huguenot et le sauvage: L’Amérique et la controverse coloniale, en France, au temps des Guerres de Religion (1555-1589) . Paris: Aux Amateurs du Livre-Klincksieck, 1990.

Peabody, Sue. There are No Slaves in France: the Political Culture of Race and Slavery in Eighteenth–Century France. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Pritchard, James. In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Sala-Molins, Louis. Le Code Noir: ou le calvaire de Canaan. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1987.

Sayre, Gordon. Les sauvages américains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1997.

Stein, Robert L. The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century: An Old Regime Business. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.

Stein, Robert L. The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

Canada and the St. Lawrence Valley

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Books for Children and Young Adults

Derleth, August. Father Marquette and the Great Rivers. Illustrated by Lawrence H. Hoffman. San Francisco: Ignatius, 1998.

Gillis, Jennifer Blizin. Life in New France. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2003.

Kline, Trish. Samuel de Champlain. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke, 2002.

Legaré, Francine. Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France. Montreal: XYZ, 2004.

Rosinsky, Natalie. The Algonquin. Minneapolis: Compass Point Books, 2005.

Smith, Patricia Clark. Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets . Royal Diaries Series. New York: Scholastic, 2003.

Sonneborn, Liz. Samuel de Champlain . New York: Franklin Watts, 2001.

Speare, Elizabeth George . The Sign of the Beaver . Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1988.

Wartik, Nancy. The French Canadians. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.

Beaulieu, Alain. Les autochtones du Québec . Montréal: Musée de la civilisation et éditions Fides, 1997.

Blackburn, Carole. Harvest of Souls: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America, 1632-1650. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000.

Brasseaux, Carl A. “Scattered to the Wind”: Dispersal and Wanderings of the Acadians, 1755-1809. Louisiana Life Series, no. 6. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1991.

Champlain, Samuel de. Algonquians, Hurons and Iroquois Champlain Explores America 1603-1616. Translated by Annie Nettleton Bourne. Edited by Edward Gaylord Bourne. Dartmouth: Brook House, 2000.

Dechêne, Louise, and Richard C. Harris, eds. Atlas historique du Canada . Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1987.

Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Dickason, Olive Patricia. Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Eccles, William J. France in America. Rev. ed. East Lansing: Michigan University State Press, 1990.

Faragher, John Mack. A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005.

Greer, Allan, ed. The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

Greer, Allan, The People of New France . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Historical Atlas of Canada . 3 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987-1993.

Jones, Elizabeth. Gentlemen and Jesuits: Quests for Glory and Adventure in the Early Days of New France. Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1986.

Litalien, Raymonde, and Denis Vaugeois, eds. Champlain : The Birth of French America. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004. [Also available in French as Champlain: la naissance de l’Amérique française. Sillery: Septentrion, 2004.]

Mathieu, Jacques. La Nouvelle-France: Les Français en Amérique du Nord, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle . Paris: Belin; Presses de l’Université Laval, 1991.

Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada-A Cultural History. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000.

Morton, Desmond. A Short History of Canada. 5th ed. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001.

Peyser, Joseph, L., trans. and ed. Letters From New France: The Upper Country, 1686-1783. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Plank, Geoffrey. An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Salvucci, Claudio R., and Katherine E. Lawn. Women in New France: Extracts from the Jesuit Relations and Other Primary Sources. Bristol, PA: Evolution, 2005.

Bosher, J. F. The Canada Merchants, 1713-1763. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Choquette, Leslie. Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Dechêne, Louise. Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle . Paris and Montreal: Plon, 1974.

Delâge, Denys. Le Pays renversé: Amérindiens et Européens en Amérique du Nord-Est . Montréal: Boréal Express, 1985. [Translated into English by Jane Bierley as Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-1664. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1989.]

Dickason, Olive P. The Myth of the Savage: And the Beginning of French Colonialism in the Americas. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1984. [Translated into French by Jude Des Chênes as Le mythe du sauvage . Sillery: Septentrion, 1993.]

Eccles, William J. The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.

Eccles, William J., Essays on New France . Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Griffiths, Naomi E. S. The Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992.

Havard, Gilles. The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701: French-Native Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century . Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001.

Jacquin, Philippe. Les Indiens blancs: Français et Indiens en Amérique du Nord, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles . Paris: Payot, 1987.

Jaenen, Cornelius J. Friend and Foe: Aspects of French-Amerindian Cultural Contact in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries . New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.

Jennings, Francis. The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744. New York: Norton, 1984.

Landry, Yves. Orphelines en France, pionières au Canada: Les Filles du roi au XVIIe siècle. Montreal: Leméac, 1992.

Larin, Robert. Brève histoire du peuplement européen en Nouvelle-France . Sillery: Septentrion, 2000.

Louder, Dean R., and Eric Waddell, eds. French America: Mobility, Identity, and Minority Experience Across the Continent. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.

Morrison, Kenneth M. The Embattled Northeast: The Elusive Ideal of Alliance in Abenaki-Euroamerican Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Trigger, Bruce G. Natives and Newcomers: Canada’s “Heroic Age” Reconsidered. Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1985. [Translated into French by Georges Khal as Les Indiens, la fourrure et les Blancs . Montreal and Paris: Boréal; Seuil, 1990.]

The Great Lakes Region

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Books for Children and Young Adults

Campbell, Marjorie Wilkins. The Nor'Westers: The Fight for the Fur Trade. Calgary: Fifth House, 2002.

Céloron de Blainville, Pierre Joseph. The Céloron Expedition to the Ohio Country, 1749: The Reports of Pierre-Joseph Céloron and Father Bonnecamps. Edited by Andrew Gallup. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1997.

Hickerson, Harold. The Chippewa and Their Neighbors: A Study in Ethnohistory. Rev. ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 1988.

Reese, Ted. Soft Gold: A History of the Fur Trade in the Great Lakes Region and Its Impact on Native American Culture. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2001.

Cayton, Andrew R. L., and Fredrika J. Teute, eds. Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Cleland, Charles E. Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan’s Native Americans. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Ekberg, Carl J. French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Havard, Gilles. Empire et métissages: Indiens et Français dans le Pays d’En Haut, 1660-1715 . Sillery: Septentrion; Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003.

Hinderaker, Eric. Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Kinietz, W. Vernon. The Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615-1760. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

McConnell, Michael N. A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples, 1724-1774. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Tanner, Helen Hornbeck, ed. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley

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Books for Children and Young Adults

Blumberg, Rhonda. What’s the Deal? Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1998.

Christian, Shirley. Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

Costabel, Eva Deutsch. The Early People of Florida. New York: Atheneum, 1993.

Davenport, John. Louisiana Territory. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005.

Balesi, Charles J. The Time of the French in the Heart of North America, 1673-1818. Chicago: Alliance française, 1992.

Hanger, Kimberly S. A Medley of Cultures: Louisiana History at the Cabildo. New Orleans: Louisiana Museum Foundation, 1996.

Kastor, Peter J., ed. The Louisiana Purchase: Emergence of an American Nation. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002.

Lankford, George E. Native American Legends: Southeastern Legends: Tales from the Natchez, Caddo, Biloxi, Chickasaw, and Other Nations . Little Rock: August House, 1987.

Lemmon, Alfred E., John T. Magill, and Jason R. Wiese, eds. Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps. New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 2003.

Lugan, Bernard. Histoire de la Louisiane Française. Paris: Perrin, 1994.

Whayne, Jeannie M. et al. Arkansas: A Narrative History. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002.

Allain, Mathé. “Not Worth a Straw”: French Colonial Policy and the Early Years of Louisiana. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies, 1988.

Arnold, M. A. The Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804 . Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.

Arnold, Morris S. Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804: A Social and Cultural History. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.

Brasseaux, Carl A., trans. and ed. A Comparative View of French Louisiana: The Journals of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean-Jacques-Blaise d'Abbadie. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1981.

Brasseaux, Carl A. The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

Brasseaux, Carl A., ed. A Refuge for All Ages: Immigration in Louisiana History . Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1996.

Brasseaux, Carl A., and Glenn R. Conrad, eds. The Road to Louisiana: The Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792-1809. Translated by David Cheramie. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1992.

Cayton, Andrew R. L., and Fredrika J. Teute, eds. Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Conrad, Glenn R., ed. The French Experience in Louisiana . Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1995.

Gallay, Alan. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Galloway, Patricia K., ed. La Salle and His Legacy: Frenchmen and Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1982.

Giraud, Marcel. Histoire de la Louisiane française. 5 vols. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953-1991.

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the 18th Century . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

Hanger, Kimberly S. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Hirsch, Arnold R., and Joseph Logsdon, eds. Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

Ingersoll, Thomas N. Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819 . Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.

Usner, Daniel H., Jr. American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Usner, Daniel H., Jr. Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Whayne, Jeannie, comp. Cultural Encounters in the Early South: Indians and Europeans in Arkansas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1995.

The Caribbean

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Books for Children and Young Adults

Myers, Walter Dean. Toussaint L'ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom . Illustrated by Jacob Lawrence. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.

Turck, Mary. Haiti: Land of Inequality . Minneapolis: Lerner, 1999.

Butel, Paul. Histoire des Antilles françaises: XVIIe - XXe siècle. Paris: Perrin, 2002.

Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution . Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2004.

Moitt, Bernard. Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Rev. ed. New York: Facts on File, 1999.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon, 1995.

Voyage aux iles d'Amérique: exposition organisé par la Direction des Archives de France, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication [...]. Paris: Archives nationales, 1992.

Auguste, Claude B., and Marcel B. Auguste. L'Éxpédition Leclerc, 1801-1803 . Port-au-Prince: Henri Deschamps, 1985.

Boisrond-Tonnerre. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'Haiti. Edited by Pierre Buteau. Port-au-Prince: Éditions des Antilles, 1991.

Boucher, Philip P. Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763 .Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Butel, Paul. Les Caraïbes au temps des filibustiers, XVIe-XVIIe siècles. Paris: Éditions Aubrei Montaigne, 1982.

Butel, Paul, and Bernard Levallé, eds. Commerce et plantation dans la Caraïbe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles . Bordeaux: Maison des Pays Ibériques, 1992.

Cauna, Jacques de. Au temps des Isles à sucre: histoire d'une plantation de Saint-Domingue au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Éditions Karthala, 1987.

Dayan, Joan. Haiti, History, and the Gods. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Debien, Gabriel. Les Colons de Saint-Domingue et la Révolution: Essai sur le Club Massiac (Août 1789-Août 1792). Paris: Librarie Armand Colin, 1953.

Debien, Gabriel. Les engagés pour les Antilles (1634-1715). Paris: Larose, 1952.

Debien, Gabriel. Plantations et esclaves à Saint-Domingue. Dakar: Université de Dakar, 1962.

Dorigny, Marcel, ed. Léger-Félicité Sonthonax: La première abolition de l'esclavage, La Révolution française et la Révolution de Saint-Domingue. Paris: Société française d'histoire d'Outre-mer, 1997.

Dubois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Fick, Carolyn E. The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

Frostin, Charles. Les Révoltes blanches à Saint-Domingue aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Haiti avant 1789). Paris: L’Ecole, 1975.

Gaultier, Arlette. Les Soeurs de solitude: La condition féminine aux Antilles du XVIIe au XIXe siècle. Paris: Éditions Caribbéenes, 1985.

Gaspar, David B., and David P. Geggus, eds. A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Geggus, David Patrick. Haitian Revolutionary Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Geggus, David, ed. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.

Gisler, Antoine. L'esclavage aux Antilles françaises: XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle . 2d ed. Paris: Karthala, 1981.

Kadish, Doris Y., ed. Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World: Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Lafleur, Gérard. Les Caraïbes des Petites Antilles. Paris: Karthala, 1992.

Lafleur, Gérard. Les Protestants aux Antilles françaises du vent sous l’ancien régime. Basse-Terre: Société d’histoire de la Guadeloupe, 1988.

McClelland, III, James E. Colonialism and Science: Saint-Domingue in the Old Regime. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.

Ott, Thomas O. The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973.

Pérotin-Dumon, Anne. Etre patriotique sous les tropiques: La Guadeloupe, la colonisation et la Révolution, 1789-1794. Basse-Terre: Société d’histoire de la Guadeloupe, 1985.

Pérotin-Dumon, Anne. La Ville aux Iles, la ville dans l’île: Basse-Terre et Pointe-è-Pitre, Guadeloupe, 1650-1820. Paris: Karthala, 2000.

Pluchon, Pierre, ed. Histoire des Antilles et de la Guyane. Paris: Privat, 1982.

Stein, Robert L. Léger Félicité Sonthonax: The Lost Sentinel of the Republic. Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985.

Colonial Conflicts

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Books for Children and Young Adults

Ferrie, Richard. The World Turned Upside Down: George Washington and the Battle of Yorktown. New York: Holiday House, 1999.

Maestro, Betsy. Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763 . New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

Vierow, Wendy. The Battle of Yorktown. New York: PowerKids, 2003.

Boles, Laurence Huey. The Huguenots, the Protestant Interest, and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-1714. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

De Voto, Bernard Augustine. The Course of Empire . Norwalk, CT: Easton, 1952.

Ferling, John E. Struggle for a Continent: The Wars of Early America. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1993.

Fowler, William, M. Empires at War: The French & Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763. New York: Walker, 2005.

Griffith, Samuel B. The War for American Independence: From 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in 1781. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Jennings, Francis. Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America. New York: Norton, 1988.

Leckie, Robert. A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Marston, Daniel. The French-Indian War, 1754-1760. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Marston, Daniel. The Seven Years' War. Chicago: Dearborn, 2001.

McLynn, Frank. 1759: The Year Britain became Master of the World. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2005.

Parkman, Francis. Montcalm and Wolfe: The French and Indian War. With an Introduction by John Keegan. New York: Da Capo, 1995.

Parkman, Francis. The Battle for North America. Edited by John Tebbel. London: Phoenix, 2001.

Schwartz, Seymour I. The French and Indian War, 1754-1763: The Imperial Struggle for North America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Anderson, Fred. The Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in North America, 1754-1766. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Bénot, Yves. La Démence coloniale sous Napoléon. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 1991.

Bénot, Yves. La Révolution française et la fin des colonies. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 1989.

Klaits, Joseph, and Michael H. Hazel, eds. The Global Ramifications of the French Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

McNeill, John R. Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

O’Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Pritchard, James S. In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Stein, Stanley J., and Barbara H. Stein. Silver, Trade and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

York, Neil Longley. Turning the World Upside Down: The War of American Independence and the Problem of Empire. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.

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Books for Children and Young Adults

Collier, James Lincoln, and Christopher Collier. My Brother Sam Is Dead . Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio, 1988, c1974.

Collins, Kathleen. Marquis de Lafayette: French Hero of the American Revolution. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2004.

Corrick, James A. The Louisiana Purchase. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2001.

Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Murray, Stuart. Eyewitness: American Revolution. New York: DK Publishing, 2002.

Roop Connie, and Peter Roop. Louisiana Purchase. Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. New York: Aladdin Library, 2004.

Stevenson, Augusta. Benjamin Franklin: Printer’s Boy. New York: Aladdin Books 1986.

The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence. New York: Library of America, 2001.

Andrews, Stuart. The Rediscovery of America: Transatlantic Crosscurrents in an Age of Revolution. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998.

Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Dunn, Susan. Sister Revolutions: French Lightening, American Light. New York: Faber and Faber, 1999.

Elkins, Stanley, and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Ferling, John E. A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Franklin, Benjamin. Writings . Edited by J. A. Leo. New York: Viking, 1987.

Idzerda, Stanley J., and Roger E. Smith. France and the American War of Independence. New York: Scott Limited Editions, 1975.

Jefferson, Thomas. Writings . Edited by Merrill D. Peterson. New York: Viking, 1984.

Murat, Ines. Napoleon and the American Dream . Translated by Frances Frenaye. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

Spurlin, Paul Merrill. The French Enlightenment in America: Essays on the Times of the Founding Fathers. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New York: Library of America, 2004.

Unger, Harlow Giles. Lafayette . New York: John Wiley, 2002.

Woloch, Isser. Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.

Wood, Gordon S. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin, 2004.

Baldensperger, F. Le Mouvement des idées dans l'émigration française. 2 vols. Paris, 1924.

Bodinier, Gilbert et al. La France de la Révolution et les États-Unis d’Amérique. Paris: Fondation Singer-Polignac, Masson, 1995

Childs, Frances Sergeant. French Refugee Life in the United States 1790-1800: An American Chapter of the French Revolution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1940.

Chinard, Gilbert, ed. Volney et l'Amérique d'après des documents inedits et sa correspondance avec Jefferson. Baltimore, 1923; reprint, New York: Johnson Reprint, 1973.

Diesbach, Ghislain de. Histoire de l'émigration 1789-1814. Rev. ed. Paris: Librairie académique Perrin, 1984.

Godechot, Jacques L. France and the Atlantic Revolution of the Eighteenth Century, 1770-1799. Translated by Herbert H. Rowen. New York: Free Press, 1965.

Hill, Peter P. French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783-1793. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988.

Hunt, Alfred N. Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

Kramer, Lloyd S. Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Morton, Brian N., and Donald C. Spinelli, Beaumarchais and the American Revolution. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003.

Schaeper, Thomas J. France and America in the Revolutionary Era: The Life of Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont, 1725-1803. Oxford: Berghahn, 1995.

Sepinwall, Alyssa Goldstein. The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Sharp, James Roger. American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Stinchcombe, William C. The American Revolution and the French Alliance. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1969.

Vidalenc, Jean. Les Émigrés Française 1789-1825. Caen: Facultés des lettres et sciences humaines de l'université de Caen, 1963.

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