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  1. Rumors of revolution
    song, sentiment, and sedition in colonial Louisiana
    Author: Tsien, Jennifer
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville ; London

    "This book examines the exercise of royal power over colonial Louisiana in the eighteenth century, revealing the abuses that the French government could exert on its people against their will, ultimately establishing an overlooked implicit connection... more

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    "This book examines the exercise of royal power over colonial Louisiana in the eighteenth century, revealing the abuses that the French government could exert on its people against their will, ultimately establishing an overlooked implicit connection between histories of settler colonialism in the Americas and the fate of absolutism in Europe. Although the Louisiana colony is not traditionally considered a site of revolution, its mismanagement inspired increasing distrust and revolutionary sentiments against the ancien régime until its collapse. Afterward, the threat of revolution in the colony itself played a role in Spanish and French strategies in the Americas that resulted in the end of Napoleon's claims to this part of North America"-- In 1682 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a century later, there had never been a revolution, per se, in Louisiana. However, as Jennifer Tsien highlights in this groundbreaking work, revolutionary sentiment clearly surfaced in the literature and discourse both in the Louisiana colony and in France with dramatic and far-reaching consequences.In Rumors of Revolution, Tsien analyzes documented observations made in Paris and in New Orleans about the exercise of royal power over French subjects and colonial Louisiana stories that laid bare the arbitrary powers and abuses that the government could exert on its people against their will. Ultimately, Tsien establishes an implicit connection between histories of settler colonialism in the Americas and the fate of absolutism in Europe that has been largely overlooked in scholarship to date

     
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  2. Rumors of revolution
    song, sentiment, and sedition in colonial Louisiana
    Author: Tsien, Jennifer
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

    "This book examines the exercise of royal power over colonial Louisiana in the eighteenth century, revealing the abuses that the French government could exert on its people against their will, ultimately establishing an overlooked implicit connection... more

     

    "This book examines the exercise of royal power over colonial Louisiana in the eighteenth century, revealing the abuses that the French government could exert on its people against their will, ultimately establishing an overlooked implicit connection between histories of settler colonialism in the Americas and the fate of absolutism in Europe. Although the Louisiana colony is not traditionally considered a site of revolution, its mismanagement inspired increasing distrust and revolutionary sentiments against the ancien régime until its collapse. Afterward, the threat of revolution in the colony itself played a role in Spanish and French strategies in the Americas that resulted in the end of Napoleon's claims to this part of North America"-- In 1682 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a century later, there had never been a revolution, per se, in Louisiana. However, as Jennifer Tsien highlights in this groundbreaking work, revolutionary sentiment clearly surfaced in the literature and discourse both in the Louisiana colony and in France with dramatic and far-reaching consequences.In Rumors of Revolution, Tsien analyzes documented observations made in Paris and in New Orleans about the exercise of royal power over French subjects and colonial Louisiana stories that laid bare the arbitrary powers and abuses that the government could exert on its people against their will. Ultimately, Tsien establishes an implicit connection between histories of settler colonialism in the Americas and the fate of absolutism in Europe that has been largely overlooked in scholarship to date

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780813949604; 9780813949611
    Series: Writing the early Americas
    Subjects: Amerikanische Geschichte; Colonialism & imperialism; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General; History of the Americas; Kolonialismus und Imperialismus; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literaturwissenschaft: 1600 bis 1800; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Revolutionen, Aufstände, Rebellionen; Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
    Scope: pages cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    The Regent's Seduction -- Enlightenment Travelers: Scientific Description as a Critique of Monarchy -- Louisiana Finds its Voice: The Revolt of 1768 -- The Sentimental Aftermath of the Revolt -- In the Age of Revolutions.