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    "pk": 42827,
    "title": "Rereading the “Écriteau”: Protestant Myths, Native Alliances, and the Histories of French Florida",
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    "abstract": "The \nécriteaux\n or public signs that may have been hung around  the necks of French colonists in Florida in 1565 by Menéndez de Avilés  and his Spanish comrades indicate that the Spanish were motivated to  destroy a “Lutheran” colony. Beginning with this Spanish “reading” of  the French settlement, this essay explores the long history of  understanding French Florida as an exclusively Protestant colony. This  emphasis, I argue, obscures another interpretation that can be traced  back to Jean Ribault and René de Laudonnière. Rather than focusing upon  the colony as a Huguenot refuge, Ribault and Laudonnière, and others  after them including Richard Hakluyt and Marc Lescarbot, argue instead  for the colony as a “French” project built upon effective alliances with  the Timucuan populations of the St. John’s River region. At the same  time, Laudonnière’s account demonstrates how the French prove unable to  maintain stable relations with Timucuan allies. The French failure to  communicate with and comprehend their Native allies explains the  colony’s demise and its destruction. Despite the power of religion and  its rhetoric in the colony’s existence and aftermath, this essay argues  that we cannot ignore Native power and Native rhetoric in understanding  the beginnings and ends of \nla floride française.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "<p>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</p>",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Transnational"
        },
        {
            "word": "American Studies"
        }
    ],
    "section": "SPECIAL FORUM: La Floride française: Florida, France, and the Francophone World",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nq6q8m6",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "H.",
            "last_name": "Pollack",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2017-10-01T15:09:06Z",
    "date_accepted": "2017-10-01T15:09:06Z",
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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