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Book De France en Nouvelle France

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cornelius J. Jaenen
  • Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 2760303632
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book De France en Nouvelle France written by Cornelius J. Jaenen and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spécialiste des élites politiques de la Nouvelle-France, et de leurs origines familiales et sociales, le professeur Jean-Claude Dubé, de l'Université d'Ottawa, s'est fait connaître par l'originalité de ses travaux et son double intérêt pour la France de l'Ancien Régime et la colonie. Conçu dans un perspective large qui est celle de Jean-Claude Dubé lui-même, cet ouvrage est celui d'un groupe d'amis qui, des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, ont voulu lui rendre hommage en lui offrant une série d'études de choix. S'étendant du politique au religieux, ces contributions tantôt neuves, tantôt longuement mûries et parfois provocantes, permettent en même temps d'établir des relations entre les deux sociétés métropolitaine et coloniale.

Book Vingt ans apres  Habitants et marchands

Download or read book Vingt ans apres Habitants et marchands written by Sylvie Dépatie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998-06-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habitants et marchands, Twenty Years Later includes eleven essays, seven of which are in French, that highlight current research in Quebec studies. Danielle Gauvreau, Dale Miquelon, and Louis Michel survey recent developments on population, merchants, and rural society respectively. Allan Greer studies Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Amerindian to be beatified. William Wicken analyses relations between Mi'kmaq and Acadians. Bruce White and Thomas Wien examine the fur trade, with White focusing on the Lake Superior region and Wien on the St Lawrence Valley. Catherine Desbarats looks at the role of the state as a buyer of goods and services in Canada. Mario Lalancette and Alan M. Stewart study the evolution of Montreal's urban geography in the seventeenth century. Geneviève Postolec analyses matrimonial practices at Neuville, and Sylvie Dépatie examines the urban and peri-urban countryside in Montreal's gardens and orchards. The collection offers valuable perspectives on both the history of New France and the socio-economic history of colonial societies.

Book A Population History of North America

Download or read book A Population History of North America written by Michael R. Haines and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Covering the populations of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including two essays on the Amerindian population, this volume takes advantage of considerable recent progress in demographic history to offer timely, knowlegeable information in a non-technical format. A statistical appendix summarizes basic demographic measures over time for the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Book A Short History of Quebec

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  • Author : John Alexander Dickinson
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0773534393
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book A Short History of Quebec written by John Alexander Dickinson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two of Quebec's most respected historians, A Short History of Quebec offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the province from the pre-contact native period to the present-day. John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec now takes into account such issues as the 1995 referendum, recent ideological shifts and societal changes, considers Quebec's place in North America in the light of NAFTA, and offers reflections on the Grard Bouchard-Charles Taylor Commission on Accommodation and Cultural Differences in 2008. Engagingly written, this expanded and updated fourth edition is an ideal place to learn about the dynamic history of Quebec.

Book Le Qu  bec  Gen  se et mutations du territoire  Synth  se de g  ographie hitorique

Download or read book Le Qu bec Gen se et mutations du territoire Synth se de g ographie hitorique written by Serge Courville and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly documented work, Serge Courville tells the geographical history of Quebec from the appearance of the first humans through to the present day. This detailed and erudite book maps major stages of Quebec’s development, providing a geographical record of the many social relationships that over time created a sense of place. Landscape, Courville shows, is the keeper of memory, the record of successive changes, and a witness to the genesis of the new. Places that were once agricultural, then left to waste and ruin, are today revivified by tourism. Areas that now house office buildings were long ago open playgrounds where children ruled. Drawing on vast research, Courville shows how, in spite of the turbulence Quebec often endures – or perhaps because of it – the land itself may be seen as an important participant in the history of its peoples. Quebec: A Historical Geography was originally published by Les Presses de l’Université Laval as Le Québec: Genèses et mutations du territoire.

Book A Short History of Quebec

    Book Details:
  • Author : John A. Dickinson
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2008-09-19
  • ISBN : 0773577262
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book A Short History of Quebec written by John A. Dickinson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec now takes into account such issues as the 1995 referendum, recent ideological shifts and societal changes, considers Quebec's place in North America in the light of NAFTA, and offers reflections on the Gérard Bouchard-Charles Taylor Commission on Accommodation and Cultural Differences in 2008.

Book The People of New France

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  • Author : Allan Greer
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2017-06-22
  • ISBN : 1487516827
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book The People of New France written by Allan Greer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the social history of New France. For more than a century, until the British conquest of 1759-60, France held sway over a major portion of the North American continent. In this vast territory several unique colonial societies emerged, societies which in many respects mirrored ancien regime France, but which also incorporated a major Aboriginal component. Whereas earlier works in this field presented pre-conquest Canada as completely white and Catholic, The People of New France looks closely at other members of society as well: black slaves, English captives and Christian Iroquois of the mission villages near Montreal. The artisans and soldiers, the merchants, nobles, and priests who congregated in the towns of Montreal and Quebec are the subject of one chapter. Another chapter examines the special situation of French regime women under a legal system that recognized wives as equal owners of all family property. The author extends his analysis to French settlements around the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi Valley, and to Acadia and Ile Royale. Greer's book, addressed to undergraduate students and general readers, provides a deeper understanding of how people lived their lives in these vanished Old-Regime societies.

Book Vie et mort du couple en Nouvelle France

Download or read book Vie et mort du couple en Nouvelle France written by Josette Brun and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Nouvelle-France offre-t-elle aux femmes un champ d'action élargi, comme le voudrait une certaine conception de l'histoire coloniale? Ce n'est pas ce que révèle l'analyse du partage des droits et des responsabilités entre époux, des secondes noces et des stratégies de survie économique des personnes veuves. « Maîtres et seigneurs » chez eux, selon le vœu de l'État, de l'Église et de la loi, les maris assument formellement l'essentiel des responsabilités professionnelles et patrimoniales du ménage. Lorsqu'ils meurent, leurs veuves doivent pour survivre apprendre à profiter de leur nouvelle capacité juridique, d'une certaine flexibilité des rôles féminins, de leur expérience professionnelle ou de leur douaire, qu'elles mettent en valeur seules ou avec l'aide de la parenté. Les veufs, souvent parents de jeunes orphelins et contraints par les normes de la masculinité, se remarient rapidement. Ils retiennent moins l'attention des autorités que les veuves, nombreuses, dom la figure tantôt attendrissante et tantôt suspecte se trouve parfois directement mêlée aux rapports de pouvoir entre la métropole et ses colonies nord-américaines.

Book Qu  bec  Une ville et sa population au temps de la Nouvelle France

Download or read book Qu bec Une ville et sa population au temps de la Nouvelle France written by Danielle Gauvreau and published by PUQ. This book was released on 2011-04-22T12:14:41-04:00 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, dans le contexte urbain de Québec, alors marqué par des rapports coloniaux avec la France, les groupes sociaux adoptent des comportements démographiques différents. Cet ouvrage reconstitue l'histoire de plus de 7000 familles ayant vécu à Québec au cours de près d'un siècle et demi d'histoire, ce qui permet d'analyser le régime démographique de la population et les conditions de son renouvellement en rapport avec les structures sociales existantes. Il intéressera toutes les personnes concernées de près ou de loin par les domaines de l'histoire ou de la démographie.

Book Families in Transition

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  • Author : Peter Gossage
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1999-09-01
  • ISBN : 0773567828
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Families in Transition written by Peter Gossage and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gossage uses a family-reconstitution method, drawing on local parish registers and manuscript-census schedules, to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in this context of social and economic change. Family formation was profoundly affected as couples adjusted to the new urban, industrial setting. Gossage demonstrates that demographic behaviour was increasingly differentiated by social class, with distinct marriage and fertility patterns emerging among bourgeois and proletarian families. Bourgeois women who married in the 1860s, for example, were already limiting family size, a crucial shift that did not occur in working-class families until almost a generation later. Families in Transition demonstrates the extent to which stereotypes about family life in Quebec before the Quiet Revolution need to be revisited. Far from being passive, static, uniformly prolific, and constrained by religious and cultural perspectives, Saint-Hyacinthe families responded quickly to the changing realities of the day, reinventing marriage patterns and domestic arrangements to fit the new industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century. In this sense they were truly families in transition.

Book History of the Book in Canada  Beginnings to 1840

Download or read book History of the Book in Canada Beginnings to 1840 written by History of the Book in Canada Project and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impressive in its scope and depth of scholarship, this first volume of the History of the Book in Canada is a landmark in the chronicle of writing, publishing, bookselling, and reading in Canada.

Book Mapping the Margins

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  • Author : Nancy Christie
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2004-03-12
  • ISBN : 9780773571853
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Mapping the Margins written by Nancy Christie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-03-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors include Denyse Baillargeon (Université de Montréal), Bettina Bradbury (York University), Josette Brun (Université Laval), Nancy Christie (Hamilton), Gwendolyn Davies (University of New Brunswick), Michael Gauvreau (McMaster University), Peter Gossage (Université de Sherbrooke), Ollivier Hubert (Université de Montréal), Jack Little (Simon Fraser University), James Moran (University of Prince Edward Island), Suzanne Morton (McGill University), Matt Savelli (McMaster University), Michele Stairs (York University), James Struthers (Trent University), and David Wright (McMaster University).

Book Canadian History  Beginnings to Confederation

Download or read book Canadian History Beginnings to Confederation written by Martin Brook Taylor and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.

Book Peopling the North American City

Download or read book Peopling the North American City written by Sherry H. Olson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively reconstruction of life in a booming North American city.

Book Historic Cities of the Americas  2 volumes

Download or read book Historic Cities of the Americas 2 volumes written by David F. Marley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-12 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rare maps, prints, and photographs, this unique volume explores the dramatic history of the Americas through the birth and development of the hemisphere's great cities. Written by award-winning author David F. Marley, Historic Cities of the Americas covers the hard-to-find information of these cities' earliest years, including the unique aspects of each region's economy and demography, such as the growth of local mining, trade, or industry. The chronological layout, aided by the numerous maps and photographs, reveals the exceptional changes, relocations, destruction, and transformations these cities endured to become the metropolises they are today. Historic Cities of the Americas provides over 70 extensively detailed entries covering the foundation and evolution of the most significant urban areas in the western hemisphere. Critically researched, this work offers a rare look into the times prior to Christopher Columbus' arrival in 1492 and explores the common difficulties overcome by these European-conquered or -founded cities as they flourished into some of the most influential locations in the world.

Book Bonds of Alliance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brett Rushforth
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 0807838179
  • Pages : 423 pages

Download or read book Bonds of Alliance written by Brett Rushforth and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 423 pages. 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.

Book Power and Subsistence

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  • Author : Louise Dechêne
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2018-11-30
  • ISBN : 0773555994
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Power and Subsistence written by Louise Dechêne and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subsistence crops – the grains and other food items necessary to a people's survival – were a central preoccupation of the early modern state. In New France, the principal crop in question was wheat, and its production, consumption, exchange, and regulation were matters to which the government devoted sustained attention. Power and Subsistence examines the official measures taken to regulate the grain economy in New France, the frequency and nature of state interventions in the system, and the responses these actions provoked. Drawing on social and political perspectives and methodologies, this book brings rural and agricultural history into conversation with colonial political economy. Louise Dechêne shows that unlike in early eighteenth-century France, where the marketplace dominated and trade was transparent, the grain economy in New France was hypercentralized and government measures were increasingly harsh. Attentive to the conflicts arising between producers, merchants, consumers, and colonial administrators over the allocation of the harvest, Dechêne offers a revealing perspective on the operation of political power in a colonial setting. Lively, elegant, and wry, Power and Subsistence provides insight into the last era of French rule in North America – and, in part, how that era came to an end.