1st Edition
Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Exploration, Encounter, and the French New World
- Introduces students to the idea of competing empires in North America, showing how France's activities in North America were important and different from more familiar English colonization
- Expands students' understanding of early American history beyond the eastern seaboard and the thirteen colonies to include the Midwest and Gulf of Mexico
- Shows the rich and complex nature of encounters between European explorers and Native Americans
- Incorporates concepts from recent scholarship on early America into a form that is easy for students to grasp; biographical framework makes the narrative accessible
- Will be of particular interest at colleges in Canada, the U.S. Midwest and Great Lakes region, and at Jesuit institutions
Biography
Laura M. Chmielewski
