A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured simila...
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Zusammenfassung: | When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured similar gardens through the Saint Lawrence Valley and Great Lakes region. In A Not-So-New World, Christopher Parsons observes how it was that French colonists began to learn about Native environments and claimed a mandate to cultivate vegetation that did not differ all that much from that which they had left behind.As Parsons relates, colonists soon discovered that there were limits to what they could accomplish in their gardens. The strangeness of New France became woefully apparent, for example, when colonists found that they could not make French wine out of American grapes. They attributed the differences they discovered to Native American neglect and believed that the French colonial project would rehabilitate and restore the plant life in the region. However, the more colonists experimented with indigenous species and communicated their findings to the wider French Atlantic world, the more foreign New France appeared to French naturalists and even to the colonists themselves.Parsons demonstrates how the French experience of attempting to improve American environments supported not only the acquisition and incorporation of Native American knowledge but also the development of an emerging botanical science that focused on naming new species. Exploring the moment in which settlers, missionaries, merchants, and administrators believed in their ability to shape the environment to better resemble the country they left behind, A Not-So-New World reveals that French colonial ambitions were fueled by a vision of an ecologically sustainable empire |
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spelling | Parsons, Christopher M. Verfasser aut A Not-So-New World Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America Christopher M. Parsons Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2018] © 2018 1 online resource 10 illus txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Early American Studies Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018) When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured similar gardens through the Saint Lawrence Valley and Great Lakes region. In A Not-So-New World, Christopher Parsons observes how it was that French colonists began to learn about Native environments and claimed a mandate to cultivate vegetation that did not differ all that much from that which they had left behind.As Parsons relates, colonists soon discovered that there were limits to what they could accomplish in their gardens. The strangeness of New France became woefully apparent, for example, when colonists found that they could not make French wine out of American grapes. They attributed the differences they discovered to Native American neglect and believed that the French colonial project would rehabilitate and restore the plant life in the region. However, the more colonists experimented with indigenous species and communicated their findings to the wider French Atlantic world, the more foreign New France appeared to French naturalists and even to the colonists themselves.Parsons demonstrates how the French experience of attempting to improve American environments supported not only the acquisition and incorporation of Native American knowledge but also the development of an emerging botanical science that focused on naming new species. Exploring the moment in which settlers, missionaries, merchants, and administrators believed in their ability to shape the environment to better resemble the country they left behind, A Not-So-New World reveals that French colonial ambitions were fueled by a vision of an ecologically sustainable empire In English Geschichte gnd rswk-swf American History American Studies Biology European History History of Science Natural History World History Horticulture North America Foreign influences History Imperialism and science France History Imperialism Environmental aspects Umwelt (DE-588)4061616-2 gnd rswk-swf Landwirtschaft (DE-588)4034402-2 gnd rswk-swf Kolonie (DE-588)4031790-0 gnd rswk-swf Frankreich (DE-588)4018145-5 gnd rswk-swf Nordamerika (DE-588)4042483-2 gnd rswk-swf Québec (DE-588)4103473-9 gnd rswk-swf Nordamerika (DE-588)4042483-2 g Frankreich (DE-588)4018145-5 g Kolonie (DE-588)4031790-0 s Landwirtschaft (DE-588)4034402-2 s Umwelt (DE-588)4061616-2 s Geschichte z 1\p DE-604 Québec (DE-588)4103473-9 g 2\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295450 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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title | A Not-So-New World Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America |
title_auth | A Not-So-New World Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America |
title_exact_search | A Not-So-New World Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America |
title_full | A Not-So-New World Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America Christopher M. Parsons |
title_fullStr | A Not-So-New World Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America Christopher M. Parsons |
title_full_unstemmed | A Not-So-New World Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America Christopher M. Parsons |
title_short | A Not-So-New World |
title_sort | a not so new world empire and environment in french colonial north america |
title_sub | Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America |
topic | American History American Studies Biology European History History of Science Natural History World History Horticulture North America Foreign influences History Imperialism and science France History Imperialism Environmental aspects Umwelt (DE-588)4061616-2 gnd Landwirtschaft (DE-588)4034402-2 gnd Kolonie (DE-588)4031790-0 gnd |
topic_facet | American History American Studies Biology European History History of Science Natural History World History Horticulture North America Foreign influences History Imperialism and science France History Imperialism Environmental aspects Umwelt Landwirtschaft Kolonie Frankreich Nordamerika Québec |
url | https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295450 |
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