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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter N Moogk |
| ISBN: | 0870135287 9780870135286 |
| OCLC Number: | 42791782 |
| Description: | xix, 340 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Cyrano de Bergerac's imaginary voyage to Canada: a survey of the colony -- Europeans and "the wild people": French-Amerindian relations -- Scepter and Main de justice: government ambitions to create a renewed France in North America -- The difficulty of finding settlers for New France and the reluctant exile of Manon Lescaut's countrymen -- Sea voyagers and Bonhomme Terreneuve: the newcomer's reception and appeals to come home -- Proud as a Canadien, stubborn as an Acadien: the emergence of new peoples -- Group and institutional loyalties: social rank, occupation, and parish -- The sovereign family -- Magic and religion in the colonists' world. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Moogk. |
Abstract:
"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 history. Aboriginal people looked upon the first white newcomers with disdain rather than with awe. French relations with allied Native Peoples were not consistently harmonious, but were strained and fragile. Most immigrants to the colony were not rebels; they were reluctant exiles from their homeland, speaking various languages and French dialects, and a third or more returned to Europe. Even those who remained in North America were socially conservative and developed their own institutions only when government neglect permitted it. The monarchy and Roman Catholicism molded attitudes and were as important as language in defining Acadian and Franco-Canadian identities. Moogk did not find a single entity called New France but a chain of loosely connected outposts stretching from Newfoundland in the east to the Illinois Country in the west. Yet the shared experience of being in the French Bourbon empire marked modern French Canada and, in particular, the Province of Quebec. La Nouvelle France is a starting point for understanding Quebec nationalism and the cultural values that give rise to it."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
- Canada -- Social conditions -- To 1763.
- French-Canadians -- History.
- Québec (Province) -- History.
- Canada -- English-French relations.
- Canada -- English-French relations -- History.
- Canadians, French-speaking -- History.
- Canadiens français -- Histoire.
- Canada -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1763 (Nouvelle-France)
- Canada -- Conditions sociales -- Jusqu'à 1763.
- Québec (Province) -- Histoire.
- Canada -- Relations entre anglophones et francophones.
- Cultuur.
- Nationale identiteit.
- Sozialgeschichte
- Kultur
- Geschichte
- Neufrankreich
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