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Author : Louise Dechêne
Release : 1992
Genre : Canada
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Book Synopsis Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-century Montreal. Translated by Liana Vardi by : Louise Dechêne
Download or read book Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-century Montreal. Translated by Liana Vardi written by Louise Dechêne. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louise Dechêne
Release : 1993-01-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal by : Louise Dechêne
Download or read book Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal written by Louise Dechêne. This book was released on 1993-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dechêne's work, when first published, constituted a major milestone in the development of methodology and use of sources. Her systematic examination of difficult and massive documentary collections blazed a number of new trails for other researchers. Her judicious blending of numerical data and "qualitative" findings makes this book one of the rare examples of "new history" that avoids the extremes of statistical abstraction and anecdotal antiquarianism. Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal won the Governor-General's Award and the Garneau Medal from the Canadian Historical Association when it first appeared in French.
Author : Brett Rushforth
Release : 2013-06-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 179/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bonds of Alliance by : Brett Rushforth
Download or read book Bonds of Alliance written by Brett Rushforth. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the dynamics of this system from its origins to the end of French colonial rule. Balancing a vast geographic and chronological scope with careful attention to the lives of enslaved individuals, this book gives voice to those who lived through the ordeal of slavery and, along the way, shaped French and Native societies. Rather than telling a simple story of colonial domination and Native victimization, Rushforth argues that Indian slavery in New France emerged at the nexus of two very different forms of slavery: one indigenous to North America and the other rooted in the Atlantic world. The alliances that bound French and Natives together forced a century-long negotiation over the nature of slavery and its place in early American society. Neither fully Indian nor entirely French, slavery in New France drew upon and transformed indigenous and Atlantic cultures in complex and surprising ways. Based on thousands of French and Algonquian-language manuscripts archived in Canada, France, the United States and the Caribbean, Bonds of Alliance bridges the divide between continental and Atlantic approaches to early American history. By discovering unexpected connections between distant peoples and places, Rushforth sheds new light on a wide range of subjects, including intercultural diplomacy, colonial law, gender and sexuality, and the history of race.
Author : Marc Egnal
Release : 1998
Genre : Canada
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Book Rating : 825/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis New World Economies by : Marc Egnal
Download or read book New World Economies written by Marc Egnal. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New World Economies is a valuable addition to the body of literature about economic development in eighteenth-century North America, and a much-needed comparative study of the British and French colonies. Egnal presents a cogent explanation for why the staple export thesis has not adequately explained economic growth in the colonial period, and makes a clear and compelling case that changes in the terms of trade and capital inflows were the more influential forces emanating from the international sector. From that perspective, the links between the British and French colonies and their respective mother countries were the primary determinants of the pace and timing of development. The book's argument is strengthened by examining these forces at the regional and sectoral levels, and by stressing the fluctuations in economic fortunes over the century. Domestic influences, such as productivity growth, are of secondary importance in Egnal's scheme, but nevertheless are given more prominence than they have had in previous work. This book is superbly written and contains a valuable array of charts, tables, and new time series on prices of specific exports and imports. New World Economies will be the starting point for any future research on the economic development of the British and French colonies in the eighteenth century."--Thomas Weiss, University of Kansas
Author : Colleen Gray
Release : 2014-06-22
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 727/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796 by : Colleen Gray
Download or read book The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796 written by Colleen Gray. This book was released on 2014-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuns have often been portrayed as nascent feminists wielding an exceptional amount of power. In this formative study of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame - a religious community of uncloistered women established in Montreal in 1657 - Colleen Gray presents a more nuanced view of the foundations and exercise of power within the convent.
