Map 4 Resources

Books and articles

Buisseret, David. Mapping the French Empire in North America. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1991.
Buisseret, David. Historic Illinois from the Air. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Cooke, Jacob Ernest, ed. Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. New York: Scribner's, 1993.
Davis, Edwin. Louisiana: A Narrative History. Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's Publishing Division, 1971.
Dubratz, LePage. The Early French Histories of Louisiana. Baton Rouge, LA, 1975.
Garvey, Joan B. and Mary Lou Widmer. Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA: Garmer Press, Inc., 1984.
Hoxie, Frederick E., ed. Encyclopedia of North American Indians. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Markowitz, Harvey, consulting ed., American Indians, 3 vols. Pasadena, CA and Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1995.
Meinig, D. W. The Shaping of America: a Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. volume 1: Atlantic America
Monmonier, Mark. Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Nash, Gary B. Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America, 4th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
O'Neill, Charles Edwards. Church and State in French Colonial Louisiana: Policy and Politics to 1732. New Haven: Yale University, 1966.
Sturtevant, William C., gen. ed. Handbook of North American Indians. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978-98.
Any French-English dictionary

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Supplemental Images

  • Plan of the Town of New Orleans, 1723. Anon. "Plan de la Ville de la Nouvelle Orleans ou l'on à marqué l'Augmentation des Maisons qui sont Baites despuis le 3 Septembre jusqu'au dernier decembre de la même année 1722. Ce qui est marqué en rouge est fait, et ce qui est en jaune est projetté." (English Translation - Plan of the Town of New Orleans on which are marked the addition of houses built between September 3 and the last day of December of the year 1722. That which exists is marked in red, and that which is in yellow is projected.), in Cartes Marines. Newberry Library call number: Ayer ms map 30, no. 81.
  • Map of the Coast of Louisiana. Detail from Anon. "Carte de la Coste de la Louisiana, depuis la Baye de S'Bernard jusqu'a celle de Saint Joseph ou touts les Ports, Rades, et bons mouillages sont exactement marquez avec les sondes, et la profondeur des terres jusqu'au dessus de Natchez" (English Translation - Map of the Coast of Louisiana from the Bay of Saint Bernard [to that of Saint Joseph or all the Ports, harbor entrances, and good places to anchor and marked exactly with the sounding-lines (depth of the water) and the depth of the lands/shores just above Natchez]), in Cartes Marines. Newberry Library call number: Ayer ms map 30, no. 78.
  • Senex map detail. From Senex, John. A map of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi, (ca. 1719). Newberry Library call number: Ayer 135 55 1721 vol. 2 between pages 248-249.
  • Map of the Great Lakes and the Upper Mississippi. Map by Tom Willcockson. In Mapping the French Empire in North America. The Newberry Library, 1991.
  • Map of the Lower Mississippi and the Caribbean. In Mapping the French Empire in North America. Map by Tom Willcockson. The Newberry Library, 1991.

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