A Not-So-New World : : Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America / / Christopher M. Parsons.
When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured simila...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Early American Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The View from Champlain’s Gardens
- Chapter 1. Discovering a Not-So- New World
- Chapter 2. Communicating Cultivation
- Chapter 3. Cultivating Soils and Souls
- Chapter 4. The Limits of Cultivation
- Chapter 5. The Science of Novelty
- Chapter 6. How New Was New France?
- Conclusion. Cultivating New Relationships
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments