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Book

Mémoires of Michilimackinac and the Pays d'en Haut : Indians and French in the upper Great Lakes at the turn of the eighteenth century

Call Number

  • H 977.4923 M5333 (CEN)

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Languages

Parallel text in French and English

Publication Information

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press ; Mackinac Island : Mackinac Island State Park Commission, [2019]

Physical Description

lxxv, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Summary

"The book offers scholarly translations of important documents that provide a window into Michilimackinac's centrality to the French imperial and trade network, and the place of Indians in French policy in this period"--

Notes

Translated from the French.

Contents

  • Relation of the / 1718
  • D'Aigremont's mémoire of 14 November, 1708
  • Mémoire on the establishment of Michilimackinac, / September 20, 1713
  • Appendix. Other translated documents that relate to Michilimackinac in this period.

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