Intimate Frontiers : Indians, French and Africans in the Mississippi Valley
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description: Historians have agreed that the French were more successful than their competitors in developing cordial relations with Native Americans during the conquest of North America. French diplomatic savoir faire and their skill at trading with Indians are usually cited to explain this success, but the Spaniards relied upon similar policies of trade and gift giving, while enjoying considerably less success with the Indians. I propose an alternative model to understand the relative success of French Colonization in North America. Intimate Frontiers, an ethno-historical examination of the colonial encounters in the Lower French Louisiana, focuses on the social relations between Europeans, Indians and African in colonial Mississippi Valley. It examines the importance of the intimate bonds forged between settlers and natives in maintaining diplomatic alliances in the region even after the French left Louisiana in 1763. My work brings sexuality and intimacy into the political arena, challenging the prevailing view that power was defined solely by political and military alliances.
identifier: NNT: 2011LEMA3008
issued: 2026-05-26T05:36:07.489356
language: en
modified: 2026-05-26T05:36:07.489362
contact point: Organization
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keyword: africains-en-louisiane
keyword: africans-in-louisiana
keyword: amerindiens
keyword: arkansas-colonial
keyword: colonial-louisiana
keyword: griffes
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticsdoctoralthesis
keyword: louisiane-coloniale
keyword: mariages-mixtes
keyword: metis
keyword: mixed-marriages
keyword: native-americans
keyword: shshisthumanities-and-social-scienceshistory
keyword: theses
keyword: vallee-du-mississippi
keyword: valley-mississippi
landing page: https://theses.hal.science/tel-00675452

Intimate Frontiers : Indians, French and Africans in the Mississippi Valley
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issued: 2026-05-26T05:36:07.538931
modified: 2026-05-26T05:36:07.447038
access URL: https://theses.hal.science/tel-00675452

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