Download or read book France and the American Tropics to 1700 written by Philip P. Boucher and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-01-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original narrative demonstrates that the transition to sugar and the plantation complex was more gradual in the French properties than generally depicted--and that it was not inevitable.--Robert Forster, The Johns Hopkins University "Journal of World History"