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La Nouvelle France : The Making of French Canada - A Cultural History /
"Moogk draws on a rich body of evidence - literature; statistical studies; government, legal, and private documents in France, Britain, and North America - to define the colonists' character. In so doing, he has discovered a New France vastly different from the one portrayed in popular his...
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: My Discovery of French Canada xi
- Chapter 1 Cyrano de Bergerac's Imaginary Voyage to Canada: A Survey of the Colony 1
- Chapter 2 Europeans and "The Wild People": French-Amerindian Relations 17
- Chapter 3 Scepter and Main de Justice: Government Ambitions to Create a Renewed France in North America 53
- Chapter 4 The Difficulty of Finding Settlers for New France and the Reluctant Exile of Manon Lescaut's Countrymen 87
- Chapter 5 Sea Voyagers and Bonhomme Terreneuve: The Newcomers' Reception and Appeals to Come Home 121
- Chapter 6 Proud as a Canadien, Stubborn as an Acadien: The Emergence of New Peoples 143
- Chapter 7 Group and Institutional Loyalties: Social Rank, Occupation, and Parish 177
- Chapter 8 The Sovereign Family 215
- Chapter 9 Magic and Religion in the Colonists' World 235
- Conclusion: "The Apples Do Not Fall Far from the Tree": The Legacy of New France in Modern Canada 265.