| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780–1860. By Edward Watts. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 275 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3046-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5762-5.)

Early in the seventeenth century, two different types of colonization faced off in the New World. For historical reasons, the British settled in the south of the North American continent while the French colonized the northern part. While the British were confined mainly to the Atlantic shore, the French, in their pursuit of adventure and the fur trade, were scattered throughout the continent. The French encountered Native Americans, trading, fraternizing, and often mingling with them, creating small mixed-culture communities in the West. The final clash between those two European powers in 1763 removed France from the continent. But French inhabitants and culture remained and continued to shape the social environment and cultural relations, creating a particular way of life in the young American republic.

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