Bad subjects : libertine lives in the French Atlantic, 1619-1814 / .
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- 9781496236623
- 1496236629
- 9781496236616
- 1496236610
- Sex crimes -- Law and legislation -- France -- History
- Sex crimes -- France -- Law and legislation -- Colonies -- History
- Sex customs -- France -- History
- Sex customs -- France -- Colonies -- History
- France -- Colonies -- America -- History
- Vie sexuelle -- France -- Histoire
- Vie sexuelle -- France -- Colonies -- Histoire
- HISTORY / Europe / France
- French colonies
- Sex crimes -- Law and legislation
- Sex customs
- America
- France
- 345.44/0253 23/eng/20230615
- KJV8212 .D38 2023
Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Among the S*v*ges: The Viau Affair, 1619-1626 -- 2. Locating the Libertines of New France, 1632-1765 -- 3. A Colonial Liberty?: Sex and Race in the Louisiana Colony, 1698-1768 -- 4. Libertines and S*v*ges: Explaining France's Defeat in the Seven Years' War, 1754-1773 -- 5. A Race of Libertines: Gender, Family, and the Law in France, 1684-1789 -- 6. Redeeming Libertines: The D�esirade Experiment, 1762-1768
7. Racializing Libertines: Sex and the Law of Slavery in the French Antilles, 1763-1789 -- 8. Aristocrats and Libertines: Disputing Liberties in the Age of Revolutions, 1784-1804 -- Epilogue: The Law and the Libertine, 1814 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Bad Subjects examines the social and cultural milieu of the early modern French empire through an analysis of the quasi-criminal category of libertinage in the French Atlantic.
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