Iberville's Gulf Journals
Publication Year: 2010
Europe's expansion into the New World during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries was a story of power alignment and cultural transmission as well as dramatic individual effort. Spain had her conquistadores, France her coureurs de bois, and England her sea dogs. Isolated from the authority of home governments, tempted by the abundance of gold, fur, and fish in the New World, these adventurers so vital to national policies of expansion developed their own personal creeds of conquest and colonization. Their individual exploits not only represent a humanistic theme essential in Europe's movement westward but heighten the analyses of cultural institutions of the era. It is within such a multidisciplinary light that one can experience the Gulf Coast adventures of Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville.
Published by: The University of Alabama Press
Contents
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pp. vii-viii
Acknowledgments
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pp. ix-xii
I am grateful to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and to the Library of Congress for making available to me microfilm copy of historical material necessary in the preparation of this book....
Introduction: Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville and the Competition for Empire / Tennant S. McWilliams
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pp. 1-16
Europe's expansion into the new world during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a story of power alignment and cultural transmission as well as dramatic individual effort. Spain had he rconquistadores, France her coureurs de bois, and England her sea dogs....
Iberville's Gulf Journals
First Voyage to the Mississippi: The Journal of the Badine
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pp. 19-105
I am taking Leoganne as my point of departure.l I sailed from there on December 31, 1698, at nine o'clock at night. The first day of the year 1699 we are at noon at north latitude 19�12' and longitude 301�.2 I am about 10 leagues west of Leoganne, 2 leagues out from land, and 1lh leagues off Gouenave.3....
Second Voyage to the Mississippi: The Journal of the Renomm�e
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pp. 106-156
December 22nd,at seven o'clock in the morning, I sailed from Havre Francais1 in company with the Gironde and set the course for Cape San Antonio, which we doubled on the 30th at eight o'clock in the morning, having observed nothing unusual on that part of the voyage....
Third Voyage to the Mississippi: The Journal of the Renomm�e
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pp. 157-179
December 15, 1701. At three o'clock in the afternoon, I made land 2 leagues east of Pensacola harbor, at the entrance to which I anchored in 6 fathoms. I sent an officer to the Spanishfort to pay my respects to the commandant and ask permission to enter his harbor in order to secure the ships there within reach of La Mobile River, on which I have been ordered to establish a settlement.....
Bibliography
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pp. 180-187
Index
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pp. 188-195
E-ISBN-13: 9780817385293
Print-ISBN-13: 9780817305390
Page Count: 208
Publication Year: 2010
