Only four gun parts have been found in the last 12 years of excavations at the site, French, and Native American commerce, and now houses reconstruction of colonial-era trade village. ..…

By the time Benoist wrote this in 1999, the Cold War had been over for ten years and the United States could be seen as the last Western empire: the ultimate hyperpower, fatherland of world citizens, source of a process of globalization through technology and international banking that would subject the rest..…