France and the American Tropics to 1700 Andrea Carlson Gielen and press establishments

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France and the American Tropics to 1700 Andrea Carlson Gielen and press establishmentsTraditionally, the story of the Greater Caribbean has been dominated by the narrative of Iberian hegemony, British colonization, the plantation regime, and the Haitian Revolution of the eighteenth century. Relatively little is known about the society and culture of this regionand particularly France's role in themin the two centuries prior to the rise of the plantation complex of the eighteenth century. Here, historian Philip P. Boucher remedies this