Christopher Hodson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1100334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Hodson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Hodson |
| SIGNATURE | HODSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hilary Doda. Fashioning Acadians: Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650–1750
Statelessness, Subjecthood, and the Early American Past
Long before the emergence of the United States, the early modern Atlantic world played host to a bewildering variety of polities. Beyond the orbits of the vast, powerful Aztec and Inka empires, North America’s Indigenous peoples inhabited authoritarian city-states the likes of Coosa and Cofitachequi, confederacies such as the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Wyandot (Huron), and the modest chiefdoms that predominated from the New England coast deep i…
Fruits of Perseverance: The French Presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701–1815
Along with Terre Haute, Bourbonnais and Massillon, Detroit numbers among the many towns of the American Midwest whose French origins have been obscured by their subsequent association with the deeply Anglo United States. Restoring Détroit’s accent aigu to its rightful place, Guillaume Teasdale’s tightly focussed work explores those origins with special attention to issues of land ownership and agricultural production. After a brief discussion of …
The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright
June 01 2017 The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright. By Ann M.Little. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi, 286. $40.00.) Christopher Hodson Christopher Hodson Christopher Hodson is associate professor in the Department of History at Brigham Young University. He is the author of The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History (2012) as well as essays in the William and Mary Quarterly,…
Robert Michael Morrissey. Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country
Robert Michael Morrissey’s whip-smart book about the early Illinois country begins with a paradoxical pamphlet. Published in Philadelphia in 1772, the Invitation sérieuse aux habitants des Illinois (An Earnest Invitation to the Inhabitants of Illinois) was, in a moment of crisis along the Atlantic coast, something of an eyebrow-raiser. Its author, an anonymous French or mixed-race settler from the village of Kaskaskia, wanted not independence fro…
Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History
Weird Science: Identity in the Atlantic World
Exile on Spruce Street: An Acadian History
Absolutely Atlantic: Colonialism and the Early Modern French State in Recent Historiography
Although it remains, in Allan Potofsky’s words, the “poorer cousin” of scholarship on the British and Iberian Atlantics, research on France’s early modern empire has expanded in recent years. This article examines that growing body of literature, focusing on works that deal with the complex relationships among indigenous peoples, French colonists, and the French state. We argue that these books, articles, and dissertations point toward a new visi…
Colonizing the Patrie: An Experiment Gone Wrong in Old Regime France
This article reconstructs a colonial experiment conducted in a quiet corner of Old Regime France. In 1773 a nobleman named the marquis de Pérusse used the crown's money to settle fifteen hundred Acadian refugees—French-speaking, Catholic colonists expelled from the British province of Nova Scotia in 1755—on uncultivated lands near the town of Chatellerault in Poitou. After a few peaceful months, the project devolved into anarchy. Beset by threats…
Des vassaux à désirer: Les Acadiens et l'Atlantique français
Cet article s'intéresse au monde atlantique français à travers les expériences diverses des réfugiés acadiens. Peuplée par des Amérindiens mi'kmaqs et des migrants originaires de la France de l'Ouest et du Centre, la colonie française d'Acadie devint la province britannique de Nouvelle-Ecosse en 17 13. Après deux générations de relations tendues entre ces colons francophones et catholiques et leurs gouvernants protestants, les autorités provincia…
A Bondage So Harsh: Acadian Labor in the French Caribbean, 1763-1766
A Bondage So Harsh"Acadian Labor in the French Caribbean, 1763–1766 Christopher Hodson At the conclusion of the Seven Years' War in 1763, geopolitical equilibrium gave way to grotesque imbalance. Great Britain became a leviathan, acquiring Canada, several key islands in the Caribbean, Senegal in Africa, French possessions in the Mediterranean, in India, and on the East Indian island of Sumatra, while crushing Gallic pretensions to the Ohio Valley…
The Creation of the British Atlantic World (review)
Reviewed by: The Creation of the British Atlantic World by Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas Christopher Hodson The Creation of the British Atlantic World. By Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas. Baltimore M.D.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. If concepts were human beings, “Atlantic history” would almost certainly be a teenager. It is, of course, far younger than other interpretive frameworks used to study the early modern world. But bey…
In Praise of the Third Estate: Religious and Social Imagery in the Early French Revolution
As he satirized the selfish luxury of the Old-Regime aristocracy, the author of the 1789 pamphlet, Le de profundis de la noblesse et du clergé (The De profundis of the Nobility and the Clergy), noted a curious trend in the writings of his peers. "Here, it is a Gloria in excelsis adapted to the alleged prerogatives of the Third Estate," lamented the pamphlet's aristocratic narrator, "there, a Magnificat to be entoned, they say, at the first Vesper…
Absolutely Atlantic: Colonialism and the Early Modern French State in Recent Historiography
Although it remains, in Allan Potofsky’s words, the “poorer cousin” of scholarship on the British and Iberian Atlantics, research on France’s early modern empire has expanded in recent years. This article examines that growing body of literature, focusing on works that deal with the complex relationships among indigenous peoples, French colonists, and the French state. We argue that these books, articles, and dissertations point toward a new visi…
Weird Science: Identity in the Atlantic World
Exile on Spruce Street: An Acadian History
Colonizing the Patrie: An Experiment Gone Wrong in Old Regime France
This article reconstructs a colonial experiment conducted in a quiet corner of Old Regime France. In 1773 a nobleman named the marquis de Pérusse used the crown's money to settle fifteen hundred Acadian refugees—French-speaking, Catholic colonists expelled from the British province of Nova Scotia in 1755—on uncultivated lands near the town of Chatellerault in Poitou. After a few peaceful months, the project devolved into anarchy. Beset by threats…
Des vassaux à désirer: Les Acadiens et l'Atlantique français
Cet article s'intéresse au monde atlantique français à travers les expériences diverses des réfugiés acadiens. Peuplée par des Amérindiens mi'kmaqs et des migrants originaires de la France de l'Ouest et du Centre, la colonie française d'Acadie devint la province britannique de Nouvelle-Ecosse en 17 13. Après deux générations de relations tendues entre ces colons francophones et catholiques et leurs gouvernants protestants, les autorités provincia…
A Bondage So Harsh: Acadian Labor in the French Caribbean, 1763-1766
A Bondage So Harsh"Acadian Labor in the French Caribbean, 1763–1766 Christopher Hodson At the conclusion of the Seven Years' War in 1763, geopolitical equilibrium gave way to grotesque imbalance. Great Britain became a leviathan, acquiring Canada, several key islands in the Caribbean, Senegal in Africa, French possessions in the Mediterranean, in India, and on the East Indian island of Sumatra, while crushing Gallic pretensions to the Ohio Valley…
In Praise of the Third Estate: Religious and Social Imagery in the Early French Revolution
As he satirized the selfish luxury of the Old-Regime aristocracy, the author of the 1789 pamphlet, Le de profundis de la noblesse et du clergé (The De profundis of the Nobility and the Clergy), noted a curious trend in the writings of his peers. "Here, it is a Gloria in excelsis adapted to the alleged prerogatives of the Third Estate," lamented the pamphlet's aristocratic narrator, "there, a Magnificat to be entoned, they say, at the first Vesper…
The Creation of the British Atlantic World (review)
Reviewed by: The Creation of the British Atlantic World by Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas Christopher Hodson The Creation of the British Atlantic World. By Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas. Baltimore M.D.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. If concepts were human beings, “Atlantic history” would almost certainly be a teenager. It is, of course, far younger than other interpretive frameworks used to study the early modern world. But bey…
A Bondage So Harsh: Acadian Labor in the French Caribbean, 1763-1766
A Bondage So Harsh"Acadian Labor in the French Caribbean, 1763–1766 Christopher Hodson At the conclusion of the Seven Years' War in 1763, geopolitical equilibrium gave way to grotesque imbalance. Great Britain became a leviathan, acquiring Canada, several key islands in the Caribbean, Senegal in Africa, French possessions in the Mediterranean, in India, and on the East Indian island of Sumatra, while crushing Gallic pretensions to the Ohio Valley…
Absolutely Atlantic: Colonialism and the Early Modern French State in Recent Historiography
Although it remains, in Allan Potofsky’s words, the “poorer cousin” of scholarship on the British and Iberian Atlantics, research on France’s early modern empire has expanded in recent years. This article examines that growing body of literature, focusing on works that deal with the complex relationships among indigenous peoples, French colonists, and the French state. We argue that these books, articles, and dissertations point toward a new visi…
Colonizing the Patrie: An Experiment Gone Wrong in Old Regime France
This article reconstructs a colonial experiment conducted in a quiet corner of Old Regime France. In 1773 a nobleman named the marquis de Pérusse used the crown's money to settle fifteen hundred Acadian refugees—French-speaking, Catholic colonists expelled from the British province of Nova Scotia in 1755—on uncultivated lands near the town of Chatellerault in Poitou. After a few peaceful months, the project devolved into anarchy. Beset by threats…
Des vassaux à désirer: Les Acadiens et l'Atlantique français
Cet article s'intéresse au monde atlantique français à travers les expériences diverses des réfugiés acadiens. Peuplée par des Amérindiens mi'kmaqs et des migrants originaires de la France de l'Ouest et du Centre, la colonie française d'Acadie devint la province britannique de Nouvelle-Ecosse en 17 13. Après deux générations de relations tendues entre ces colons francophones et catholiques et leurs gouvernants protestants, les autorités provincia…
Exile on Spruce Street: An Acadian History
Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History
Weird Science: Identity in the Atlantic World
Robert Michael Morrissey. Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country
Robert Michael Morrissey’s whip-smart book about the early Illinois country begins with a paradoxical pamphlet. Published in Philadelphia in 1772, the Invitation sérieuse aux habitants des Illinois (An Earnest Invitation to the Inhabitants of Illinois) was, in a moment of crisis along the Atlantic coast, something of an eyebrow-raiser. Its author, an anonymous French or mixed-race settler from the village of Kaskaskia, wanted not independence fro…
The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright
June 01 2017 The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright. By Ann M.Little. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi, 286. $40.00.) Christopher Hodson Christopher Hodson Christopher Hodson is associate professor in the Department of History at Brigham Young University. He is the author of The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History (2012) as well as essays in the William and Mary Quarterly,…
Fruits of Perseverance: The French Presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701–1815
Along with Terre Haute, Bourbonnais and Massillon, Detroit numbers among the many towns of the American Midwest whose French origins have been obscured by their subsequent association with the deeply Anglo United States. Restoring Détroit’s accent aigu to its rightful place, Guillaume Teasdale’s tightly focussed work explores those origins with special attention to issues of land ownership and agricultural production. After a brief discussion of …
Statelessness, Subjecthood, and the Early American Past
Long before the emergence of the United States, the early modern Atlantic world played host to a bewildering variety of polities. Beyond the orbits of the vast, powerful Aztec and Inka empires, North America’s Indigenous peoples inhabited authoritarian city-states the likes of Coosa and Cofitachequi, confederacies such as the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Wyandot (Huron), and the modest chiefdoms that predominated from the New England coast deep i…
Hilary Doda. Fashioning Acadians: Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650–1750
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