| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent?. By Philip P. Boucher. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi, 372 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8725-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8726-0.)

Philip P. Boucher provides this general survey on the grounds that nothing of the sort exists, in French or in English, and that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the French West Indies are but poorly understood. He believes that they deserve detailed attention in their own right, to be understood on their own terms, rather than presented quickly as a backdrop to the Haitian Revolution and other dramatic events of the eighteenth century.

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