François Furstenberg

Biographic Data

ID3976870
NAMEFrançois Furstenberg
GIVEN NAMESFrançois
FAMILY NAMEFurstenberg
SIGNATUREFURSTENBERG F
AFFILIATIONSUniversité de Montréal
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860

    Open AccessFrançois FurstenbergARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    Does our world of Google Maps, GPS (Global Positioning System), GIS (geographic information system), and other mapping tools feel uniquely modern? It turns out we have more in common with early Americans than many realize. The ubiquity of maps, at least, is nothing new, as Martin Brückner shows in his fascinating, wide-ranging, and lavishly illustrated new book. Brückner is as interested in the ideological or symbolic power of maps as he is in th…

  • Texte d’introduction au dossier « L’Atlantique français et ses frontières

    Open AccessJean‐Pierre Le Glaunec, Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec et al.ARTICLERevue d histoire de l Amérique…2017

    Texte d’introduction au dossier « L’Atlantique français et ses frontières : résistances, circulations, savoirs ». An article from journal Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française (L’Atlantique français et ses frontières : résistances, circulations, savoirs), on Érudit

  • Liberty and Coercion

    François FurstenbergARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    Fearful of government tyranny, the framers of the U.S. Constitution imposed extreme constraints on the central state it created, checked and balanced within itself. If the liberalism (in the classical sense) of the U.S. Constitution is much celebrated, few have noted how many powers the individual states retained. Unlike the federal government, they remained “miniature Leviathans,” endowed with “broad, capacious, and vaguely defined” police power…

  • Atlantic Slavery, Atlantic Freedom

    François Furstenberg, François Furstenberg François FurstenbergARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2011Cited by: 2

  • Friends of Liberty

    François Furstenberg, Gary B Nash et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2009

    Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges have used three intertwined biographies to craft a story of the American Revolution and its confrontation with slavery. Agrippa Hull was a free African American born in Massachusetts; Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the second son of a Polish petty noble family; and Thomas Jefferson—well, he needs no introduction. All three participated in the Revolution: Kosciuszko as a brilliant military engineer; Hull as his orde…

  • Building the Devil's Empire

    François FurstenbergARTICLEAtlantic Studies2009Cited by: 6

    Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans, by Shannon Lee Dawdy, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 336 pp., $35.00 (hardback), ISBN 978–0226138411, $22.50 (paperback), ISBN

  • In the Name of the Father

    Johann N Neem, François FurstenbergARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2008

  • The Significance of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier in Atlantic History

    François FurstenbergARTICLEThe American Historical Review2008

  • Beyond Freedom and Slavery

    François FurstenbergARTICLEJournal of American History2003Cited by: 7

    Journal Article Beyond Freedom and Slavery: Autonomy, Virtue, and Resistance in Early American Political Discourse Get access François Furstenberg François Furstenberg assistant professor at the University of Montreal and Mellon Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 4, March 2003, Pages 1295–1330, https://doi.org/10.2307…