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History of Latin America --- Epidemics --- Indians --- Diseases. --- Population. --- Diseases --- America --- Population --- History --- To 1810

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Africa, Southern --- Madagascar --- History --- Bantous. --- Autochtones --- Afrique australe --- History. --- Histoire. --- Africa, Southern - History --- Madagascar - History - To 1810

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"Late in the tenth century, the Norse Vikings embarked on a voyage of no return. Leaving Iceland first for Greenland, from there they sailed onwards to North America, setting foot on its shores five hundred years before Columbus' first journeys of discovery. But by about AD 1500 their settlements were abandoned and the Norse Greenlanders and their explorations of the New World receded into the realms of myth. What happened between these momentous events? How did the Vikings really live - and die - and why have so many myths and legends grown up around this mysterious people of the sea? Drawing on her deep knowledge of the culture and history of the region as well as the most up-to-date evidence from archaeology, medieval history and the evocative Sagas, Seaver weaves together a compelling and authoritative history. Alongside their spectacular achievements and discoveries, she also vividly evokes the last Vikings' daily lives and explains why their apparent departure in 1500 was not quite such a dramatic schism in the historical record as is often assumed. This compelling history of a people living at the fringes of the known world offers an illuminating entry into the world of the Norse Greenlanders which will captivate all who have ever wondered about the fate of the Vikings ..."--Publisher description.

Discovery and exploration, Norse. --- Entdeckung. --- Normannen. --- Vikings --- Vikings. --- Historiography. --- To 1810. --- America --- America. --- Nordamerika. --- North Atlantic Region --- North Atlantic Region. --- Discovery and exploration --- Norse. --- History

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The decades between 1670 and 1730 were the most formative in the history of the French colonies in the Americas. A sufficient number of migrants arrived from France and Africa to create settlements, establish economies of production, develop networks of exchange and trade, and adapt institutions of government and law to give substance and form to their resulting societies. Elusive Empire was the first full account of how during these years French settlers came to the Americas. It examines how they and thousands of African slaves together with Amerindians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much evidence, the author explores how the newly constructed societies and new economies, without precedent in France, interacted with the growing international violence in the Atlantic world in order to present a fresh perspective of the multifarious French colonizing experience in the Americas.

French --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- Frenchmen (French people) --- Ethnology --- History --- America --- France --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Ethnic relations. --- Colonies --- French-America --- 17th century --- 18th century --- To 1810 --- Ethnic relations --- Arts and Humanities

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Au début du XVIIIe siècle, la Nouvelle-France s'étendait sur près des deux tiers du continent nord-américain, de Québec à la Nouvelle-Orléans, des forêts glacées du Canada aux bayous de Louisiane, en passant par les prairies du Midwest. Un Empire dont la clé de voûte fut l'alliance avec les Indiens, qui permit aux Français de s'implanter et de se maintenir au nez et à la barbe des Anglais, plus nombreux, mais confinés sur le littoral atlantique. Colons, Indiens, esclaves africains composaient, surtout en Louisiane, une Amérique française au visage cosmopolite. Cette Amérique, que notre mémoire a occultée, n'a pas entièrement disparu. Les toponymes en témoignent : New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Saint-Louis, Montréal, etc., de nombreuses villes nord-américaines ont eu pour fondateurs des Français. Des millions d'Américains, aux États-Unis comme au Canada, ont des noms d'origine française. Archambault, Bissonnette, Boucher, Colombe, Dion, Pineaux, Roubideaux : imagine-t-on aujourd'hui que ces patronymes sont portés notamment par des Indiens du Dakota ? Parmi les descendants des colons français, certains parlent toujours la langue de Molière. Ce legs, on ne saurait le comprendre sans se glisser, au fil de la lecture, dans une pirogue ou dans un canoë à la recherche d'une histoire ignorée.

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