(Source: Routledge)
Routledge is publishing an edited
collection on judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French
overseas expansion.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Voices in the Legal Archives
in the French Colonial World: "The King is Listening" offers,
through the contribution of thirteen original chapters, a sustained analysis of
judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas
expansion.
The overall goal of this volume
is to elaborate a more sophisticated "social history of colonialism"
by focusing largely on the eighteenth century, extending roughly from 1700
until the conclusion of the Age of Revolutions in the 1830s. By critically
examining legal practices and litigation in the French colonial world, in both
its Atlantic and Oceanic extensions, this volume of essays has sought to
interrogate the naturalized equation between law and empire, an idea premised
on the idea of law as a set of doctrines and codified procedures originating in
the metropolis and then transmitted to the colonies. This book advances new
approaches and methods in writing a history of the French empire, one which
views state authority as more unstable and contested. Voices in the
Legal Archives proposes to remedy the under-theorized state of
France’s first colonial empire, as opposed to its post-1830 imperial
expressions empire, which have garnered far more scholarly attention.
This book will appeal to scholars
of French history and the comparative history of European empires and
colonialism.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Nancy Christie is
Research Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario, London,
Canada. She has published widely in the fields of empire, gender, law and the
state.
Michael Gauvreau is
Professor of History at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He researches in
the intellectual, religious, and social history of Canada and Quebec.
Matthew Gerber is
Associate Professor of History at University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. He
specializes in the history of early modern France and its colonies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: Reading Colonial Legal
Records Against the Grain 1. Controlling Haitian History: The
Legal Archive of Moreau de Saint-Méry 2. Proof of Freedom, Proof of
Enslavement: The Limits of Documentation in Colonial Saint-Domingue Part
II: Between Metropole and Periphery 3. Silencing Madmen: The
Legal Process of Interdiction, Saint-Domingue, Eighteenth Century 4. The
Treatment of Domestic Servants in Canada’s Justice System Under the French
Regime: A Conciliatory Approach? 5. Contesting the Seigneurial Corvée:
Two Generations of Peasant Litigation in Eighteenth-Century
Angoumois Part III: Chains of Property and Obligation 6.
Between Property and Person: The Ambiguous Status of Slaves in
Eighteenth-Century Martinique, Guadeloupe and Saint-Domingue 7. Trust,
Obligation, and the Racialized Credit Market in Pre-Revolutionary Cap
Français 8. The Inhabitants "Appear Are Not Such Fools as a Menny
Thinks": Credit, Debt, and Peasant Litigation in Post-Conquest
Quebec Part IV: Circuits of Power and the Testimony of the
Marginal 9. The Voice of the Litigant, the Voice of the
Spokesman?: The Role of Interpreters in Trials in Canada under the French
Regime (17th and 18th Centuries) 10.
Voices of Litigating Women in New France During the 17th and 18th Centuries:
Elements of Research on the Judicial Culture of the Appellants in the Archives
of the Royal Jurisdiction of Montreal (1693–1760) 11. Slaves as
Witnesses, Slaves as Evidence: French and British Prosecution of the Slave
Trade in the Indian Ocean Part V: Divided Sovereignties, Legal
Hybridities 12. When French Islands Became British: Law,
Property, and Inheritance in the Ceded Islands 13. Contested Spaces of
Law and Economy: Legal Hybridity and the Marital Economy Within Quebec’s
Merchant Communities
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