Cet article s' intéresse en premier lieu au contexte de renouvellement de la recherche
consacrée à la littérature de voyage, à partir de la deuxième moitié des années soixante-dix …

This article compares marshland colonization in Acadia and France during the 17th century.
It begins with an analysis of why the initial attempts to colonize marshlands failed. It then …

Current historiography on French empire building in the early modern period rests on a host
of unexamined terms, including colony, empire, monopoly, company, and trading privileges …

1 Le présent volume confirme, dans le sillage des travaux inter alia de Marie-Christine
Gomez-Géraud et de Wes Williams, l'importance du pèlerinage pour comprendre la religion …

Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion demonstrates that literature
and polemic interacted constantly in sixteenth-century France, constructing ideological …

In the first years of the sixteenth century mariners from across the European seaboard
created a flourishing commercial cod fishery in the northwest Atlantic. Today known as the …

The early modern dimension of francophone postcolonialism has yet to be fully explored.
This paper adds historical depth to postcolonial studies by applying postcolonial theory to an …

Le commerce toilier de Vitré connaît un essor important dans la seconde moitié du xvi e
siècle. Exploitant un monopole sur le canevas, leur produit-phare, les négociants y …

La guerre franco-anglaise de 1627-1629 place, pour la première fois, la question des
territoires français d'Amérique au cœur des relations entre les deux royaumes, les …

This thesis is concerned with jurisdictionally evasive European corporations in the Atlantic
region. In the wake of renewed interest in trading companies in the historical literature on …