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  • The People of New France

    by Allan Greer ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Patriots and the People

    The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada

    by Allan Greer ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837 has been called the most important event in pre-Confederation history. Previously, it has been explained as a response to economic distress or as the result of manipulation by middle-class politicians. Lord Durham believed it was an expression of racial conflict.The Patriots and the People is a fundamental reinterpretation of the Rebellion. Allan Greer argues ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The People of New France

    by Allan Greer ...
    Series series The Canada 150 Collection
    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 ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Property and Dispossession

    Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America

    by Allan Greer ...
    Series series Studies in North American Indian History
    Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and property, he deploys the concept of 'property formation' to consider the ways in which Europeans and their Euro-American descendants remade New World ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cultures in Conflict

    The Seven Years' War in North America

    by Fred Anderson, Catherine Desbarats, Jonathan R. Dull, Allan Greer, Eric Hinderaker, Woody Holton, Paul Mapp, Timothy J. Shannon ...
    The Seven Years' War (1754–1763) was a pivotal event in the history of the Atlantic world. Perspectives on the significance of the war and its aftermath varied considerably from different cultural vantage points. Northern and western Indians, European imperial authorities, and their colonial counterparts understood and experienced the war (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Mohawk Saint

    Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits

    by Allan Greer ...
    On October 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Saint Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native North American saint. Mohawk Saint is a work of history that situates her remarkable life in its seventeenth century setting, a time of wars, epidemics, and cultural transformations for the Indian peoples of the northeast. The daughter of a Algonquin mother and an Iroquois father, Catherine/Saint Kateri ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Peasant, Lord, and Merchant

    Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840

    by Allan Greer ...
    Series series Heritage
    Rural life in pre-industrial Quebec was essentially organized around a feudal society. Allan Greer takes a close look at the at society and its economy in three parishes in Lower Richelieu valley Sorel, St Ours, and St Denis from 1740 to 1840. He finds a pronounced pattern of household self-sufficiency; as in other peasant societies, the habitants lived mainly from produce grown throught their ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Before Canada

    Northern North America in a Connected World

    Edited by Allan Greer ...
    Series Book 8 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada
    Long before Confederation created a nation-state in northern North America, Indigenous people were establishing vast networks and trade routes. Volcanic eruptions pushed the ancestors of the Dene to undertake a trek from the present-day Northwest Territories to Arizona. Inuit migrated across the Arctic from Siberia, reaching Southern Labrador, where they met Basque fishers from northern Spain.As ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Before Canada

    Northern North America in a Connected World

    Edited by Allan Greer ...
    Series Book 8 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada
    Long before Confederation created a nation-state in northern North America, Indigenous people were establishing vast networks and trade routes. Volcanic eruptions pushed the ancestors of the Dene to undertake a trek from the present-day Northwest Territories to Arizona. Inuit migrated across the Arctic from Siberia, reaching Southern Labrador, where they met Basque fishers from northern Spain.As ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Colonial Saints

    Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500–1800

    Edited by Allan Greer, Jodi Bilinkoff ...
    From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of the colonized. The essays examine how New World spirits transformed into Old World saints - for example, the spirit of love ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained

    Investigations Into the Fantastic, the Bizarre and the Disturbing

    by John Marlowe ...
    A vast country spanning an entire continent, Canada is a land of many secrets. Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained is a compelling exploration into some of the country's most baffling events, creatures and personages. From the chilling fate of the Franklin Expedition, to the brutal murder of magnate Harry Oakes and the repeated sightings of the enigmatic Sasquatch, author John Marlowe delves ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Reluctant Pioneer

    How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush

    by Thomas Osborne ...
    The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next ... Read more

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