France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent?

"An important addition to the literature on Caribbean history and colonial societies in the 17th century." —Choice

Traditionally, the story of the Greater Caribbean has been dominated by the narrative of Iberian hegemony, British colonization, the plantation regime, and the Haitian Revolution of the eighteenth century. Relatively little is known about the society and culture of this region—and particularly France's role in them—in the two centuries prior to the rise of the plantation comple...