Colonial Urbanism: A Comparative Exploration of Skeletal Stress in Two Eighteenth Century North American French Colonies

• Main Authors: Scott, Amy B., Danforth, Marie, MacInnes, Sarah, Hughes, Nicole, Fonzo, Mattia
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Aquila Digital Community 2020
• Subjects: Fortress of Louisbourg; Health; New Biloxi; New France; Stress; Urbanization; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Sociology; The Fortress; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/19116; http://lynx.lib.usm.edu/login?URL=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-53417-2_11.pdf

Beginning in the sixteenth century, French exploration in North America was fueled by the increasing desire to expand trade routes to Asia. As an unintended consequence of this exploration, the vast potential of North America was recognized and prompted a push for colonial settlement by the French,...