{"product_id":"wild-frenchmen-and-frenchified-indians-material-culture-and-race-in-colonial-louisiana-paperback-softback-9780812223088","title":"Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians; Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812223088","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMaterial Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSophie White (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812223088\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 March 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 33 color, 17 b\/w\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An important book. . . White's work challenges prevailing understandings about how ideas of race took hold and exemplifies how material objects, maybe even more so than archival sources, can tell a story that complicates prevailing notions about the multicultural societies that comprised colonial America.\" (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e) \"White does an admirable job of integrating clothing into a larger discussion of identity formation in this fluid borderland society, demonstrating clearly how understanding the use and ownership of textiles shaped individuals views of themselves and of each other.\" (\u003ci\u003eTextile History\u003c\/i\u003e) \"There is much to be learned from the excellent \u003ci\u003eWild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians\u003c\/i\u003e-its stories, arguments, and interpretations but also its creative and important methodology. . . . A shining example of the ways in which new forms of evidence, examined in talented hands, have the power to change the way we address big historical questions.\" (\u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Those who want to know how to work in a history of material culture should run to buy this book. It is packed with detail about clothing White has laboriously mined in several languages, backed up by voluminous research in the secondary literature. And she encases it all in the framework of clearly worded theoretical concepts. The illustrations are spectacular.\" (Thomas Ingersoll, \u003ci\u003eThe Historian\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Historians dream of writing a book that will give us a new lens to make sense of the past. Sophie White has done that with \u003ci\u003eWild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians\u003c\/i\u003e. Her insistence on finding a way to \u003ci\u003elook\u003c\/i\u003e at colonial people allows the rest of us to \u003ci\u003esee\u003c\/i\u003e them with a new clarity that reveals how much we have missed in the contested process that made race in the Atlantic World.\" (Emily Clark, Tulane University) \"\u003ci\u003eWild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant book. With intelligence and precision, White examines a trove of fresh material culture evidence from the Upper Mississippi Valley and advances a new mode of analysis that goes deep into the possible meanings of Frenchness and Indianness, ultimately revealing a much slower timeline than scholars have claimed for the progression of racialized categories that foreclosed the possibility of identity transformation.\" (Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania) \"Drawing on French-language archival sources and an impressively interdisciplinary range of secondary literature, White argues that material culture-clothing and the clothed and groomed body-are central to understanding the complexity of the hybrid cultures of Upper and Lower Louisiana in the eighteenth century. \u003ci\u003eWild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully original contribution to the English-language scholarship.\" (Ann M. Little, Colorado State University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, \u003ci\u003eWild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians\u003c\/i\u003e examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture-especially dress-was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.\u003cbr\u003e At the heart of France's seventeenth-century plans for colonizing New France was a formal policy-Frenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic subjects of the king, it also carried with it the belief that Indians could become French through religion, language, and culture. This fluid and mutable conception of identity carried a risk: while Indians had the potential to become French, the French could themselves be transformed into Indians. French officials had effectively admitted defeat of their policy by the time Louisiana became a province of New France in 1682. But it was here, in Upper Louisiana, that proponents of French-Indian intermarriage finally claimed some success with Frenchification. For supporters, proof of the policy's success lay in the appearance and material possessions of Indian wives and daughters of Frenchmen.\u003cbr\u003e Through a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to the material sources, \u003ci\u003eWild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians\u003c\/i\u003e offers a distinctive and original reading of the contours and chronology of racialization in early America. While focused on Louisiana, the methodological model offered in this innovative book shows that dress can take center stage in the investigation of colonial societies-for the process of colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e I. FRENCHIFICATION IN THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. \"Their Manner of Living\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"Nothing of the \u003ci\u003eSauvage\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"One People and One God\"\u003cbr\u003e II. FRENCHIFIED INDIANS AND WILD FRENCHMEN IN NEW ORLEANS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"The First Creole from This Colony That We Have Received\": Sister Ste. Marthe and the Limits of Frenchification\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: \"To Ensure That He Not Give Himself Over to the \u003ci\u003eSauvages\u003c\/i\u003e\": Cleanliness, Grease, and Skin Color\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"We Are All \u003ci\u003eSauvages\u003c\/i\u003e\": Frenchmen into Indians?\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: \"True French\"\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555690508568,"sku":"9780812223088","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/wild-frenchmen-and-frenchified-indians-material-culture-and-race-in-colonial-louisiana-paperback-softback-9780812223088","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}