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In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860 - Softcover

Watts, Edward

 
9780807857625: In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807857629 ISBN 13: 9780807857625
Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 2006

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About the Author

Edward Watts is professor of English at Michigan State University. He is author or coeditor of four books, including An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture.

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When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities. Images of these French settlers saturated nearly every American text concerned with the West. Watts argues that these representations of French colonial culture--in works by writers such as George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, Margaret Fuller, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow--played a significant role in developing the identity of the new nation.

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When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities. Images of these French settlers saturated nearly every American text concerned with the West. Watts argues that these representations of French colonial culture?in works by writers such as George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, Margaret Fuller, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?played a significant role in developing the identity of the new nation.

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Publisher
University North Carolina Pr
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807857629
ISBN 13 
9780807857625
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288