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(0)Joan E DeJean
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Physical Desc
307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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In this compelling portrait of a city in transition, Joan DeJean shows that by 1700 Paris had become the capital that would transform forever our conception of the city and of urban life.
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Physical Desc
ix, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"On December 12, 1719, a ship named La Mutine, or the Mutinous Woman, sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the vast North American territory then referred to as "the Mississippi." La Mutine was loaded with goods that the fledgling French colony urgently required for its survival, basic foodstuffs such as flour and lard. But its principal commodity was a new kind of French export: women. The women who arrived in the New World from that...