French and the Pacific World, 17th-19th Centuries: Explorations, Migrations and Cultural Exchanges

Contributor(s): Foucrier, Annick (Editor)

ISBN: 9780754606017

Publisher: Routledge

Hardcover

$265.00

Pub Date: March 15, 2005

Dewey: 303.48244018

LCCN: 2004062396

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.00" H x 0.00" L x 0.00" W ( 1.83 lbs) 388 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 15

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: In The French in the Pacific World, Annick Foucrier has brought together an important set of studies on the French presence in the Pacific. The volume opens with a section on the context of the French expansion, including its rivalries with other European powers. Following studies treat patterns of trade, exchange, settlement and migration, looking at the French image of and reaction to the worlds round the Pacific.

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