Robert Englebert is associate professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Andrew N. Wegmann is associate professor of history at Delta State University.
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This fascinating volume positions cultural mobility as the defining factor in creating and maintaining empire. By highlighting the importance of cultural connections rather than economic and intellectual circulation, Englebert and Wegmann show how the French empire is central to understanding the Atlantic World. In the process, they illuminate the connections among far-flung imperial holdings, and the often-invisible mechanisms used to control them.--Jennifer L. Palmer, author of "Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic" French Connections offers a fascinating array of rich, complex, and deeply human stories that enrich our understanding of cultural life in the worlds of the Atlantic. Collectively, these contributions offer us a wider and deeper sense of three centuries of movement and influence between France and the Americas.--Laurent Dubois, author of "The Banjo: America's African Instrument" Starring a raucous cast of characters--including witches and spies, Native Americans and settlers, laborers and crooks, free people of color and imperial administrators, and so many other figures who composed the French Atlantic World--these superb essays range widely across North America and the Caribbean. Drawing on cutting-edge historical approaches informed by a rich scholarship in French and English, the extraordinarily talented historians assembled here situate their work in intensely local contexts even as they approach their subjects from the broadest perspective of Atlantic history. Collectively, they show the myriad ways in which an unexpectedly generative mobility knit together a vast Amerique francaise.--Francois Furstenberg, author of "When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation"