https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-driving-forces-behind-a-massacre https://booksandideas.net/The-driving-forces-behind-a-massacre 2025-04-01T05:30:00Z text/html en David El Kenz History anthropology violence Native American North America Cairn.info <p>The ritual massacre perpetrated by the Natchez against several hundred French settlers in Louisiana on 28 November 1729 was the starting point of a colonial violence against a tribe that lasted until its near disappearance.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Was-New-Orleans-Caribbean https://booksandideas.net/Was-New-Orleans-Caribbean 2020-04-20T07:00:00Z text/html en Andy Cabot History United States of America slavery Caribbeans social history Books and ideas originals North America <p>Until recently, the history of French colonial New Orleans was treated as an exception. Writing a total social history of 18<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> Century New Orleans, Cécile Vidal offers to reframe it as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire rather than as a North American frontier town.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Lost-World-of-Wood-Runners https://booksandideas.net/The-Lost-World-of-Wood-Runners 2018-12-06T07:00:00Z text/html en Paul Mapp History United States of America Colonialism anthropology West women Quebec history Native American Canada travel Books and ideas originals North America <p>“Wood runners” is the name given to travelling fur traders in the age of pioneers. Focusing on two centuries of their risky adventures and on their relationship with Amerindian populations allows Gilles Havard to write a monumental multicultural history of the early North American West.</p>