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  • Beyond the Ocean

    France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions

    by Christopher Hodson, Brett Rushforth ...
    A bold reinterpretation of French colonialism from its medieval roots to the early nineteenth century Between 1400 and 1800, the people of Europe, Africa, and the Americas grew ever more connected by overseas trade and colonization. Histories of this transformative era have been dominated by Iberian and British experiences, overlooking the vast reach of the pre-Napoleonic French Empire. Yet by the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • French Connections

    Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, 1600–1875

    by Brett Rushforth, Ryan André Brasseaux, Jay Gitlin, Karen L. Marrero, Guillaume Teasdale, Robert D. Taber, Christopher Hodson, Gregory Kennedy, Leslie Choquette, William Brown, Mairi Cowan, Vincent Auffrey ...
    French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875. Engaging a wide range of topics, from religious and diplomatic performance to labor migration, racialization, and both imagined and real ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Colonial North America and the Atlantic World

    A History in Documents

    by Brett Rushforth, Paul Mapp ...
    A comprehensive collection of primary documents for students of early American and Atlantic history, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World gives voice to the men and women¿Amerindian, African, and European¿who together forged a new world.These compelling narratives address the major themes of early modern colonialism from the perspective of the people who lived at the time: Spanish priests ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Bonds of Alliance

    Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France

    by Brett Rushforth ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    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 ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • People's History of Quebec, A

    by Jacques Lacoursière, Robin Philpot ...
    This lively guide to Quebec history tells the fascinating story of the settlement of the St. Lawrence River Valley over nearly 500 years. But it also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who travelled, mapped, and inhabited most of North America, and embrothered the peoples they met. Combining vast research and great story telling, Jacques Lacoursière and Robin Philpot ... Read more

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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 Acadian Diaspora:An Eighteenth-Century History

    An Eighteenth-Century History

    by Christopher Hodson ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in International History
    Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada. Thousands of Acadians endured three decades of forced ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Along a River

    The First French-Canadian Women

    by Jan Noel ...
    French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides, nuns, tradeswomen, farmers, governors' wives, and even smugglers — during the period between the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

    $23.79 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

  • Something of a Peasant Paradise?

    Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755

    by Gregory Kennedy ...
    Were Acadians better off than their rural counterparts in old regime France? Did they enjoy a Golden Age? To what degree did a distinct Acadian identity emerge before the wars and deportations of the mid-eighteenth century? In Something of a Peasant Paradise?, Gregory Kennedy compares Acadie in North America with a region of western France, the Loudunais, from which a number of the colonists ... Read more

    $34.99 USD