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

by Edward Watts

Book Overview

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. Edward Watts argues that these representations of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807857629
• ISBN13: 9780807857625
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"