Abstract

This book is exemplary exercise in comparative history. It is the first and only study of its kind to assess in both French and American contexts the late eighteenth‑century events surrounding the botched colonization of the Scioto Company that sold land in what is now Southeastern Ohio to several hundred French emigrants. Drawing on archives in both countries, including newly uncovered sale records inscribed by French notaries in the early 1790s, Jocelyne Moreau‑Zanelli gives an assessment o...

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