Edward Watts 
In This Remote Country [EPUB ebook] 
French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860

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When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities. Images of these French settlers saturated nearly every American text concerned with the West. Edward Watts argues that these representations of French colonial culture played a significant role in developing the identity of the new nation.
In regard to land, labor, gender, family, race, and religion, American interpretations of the French frontier became a means of sorting the empire builders from those with a more moderate and contained nation in mind, says Watts. Romantic nationalists such as George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, and Lyman Beecher used the French model to justify the construction of a nascent empire. Alternatively, writers such as Margaret Fuller, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Hall presented a less aggressive vision of the nation based on the colonial French themselves. By examining how representations of the French shaped these conversations, Watts offers an alternative view of antebellum culture wars.

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Edward Watts is professor of English at Michigan State University. He is author or coeditor of four books, including An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 288 ● ISBN 9781469625867 ● File size 1.7 MB ● Publisher The University of North Carolina Press ● City Chapel Hill ● Country US ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5509872 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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