La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada--A Cultural History Contributor(s): Moogk, Peter N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0870135287 ISBN-13: 9780870135286 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: La Nouvelle France is a candid exploration of the troubled historical relationship that exists between the inhabitants of French- and English-speaking Canada as well as a study of the colonial social institutions, values, and experiences that shaped modern French Canada. Moogk traces the roots of the Anglo-French cultural struggle to the seventeenth century discovering a New France vastly different from the one portrayed in popular mythology. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General |
Dewey: 971 |
LCCN: 00008122 |
Lexile Measure: 1470 |
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.98" W x 10.1" (1.50 lbs) 340 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Geographic Orientation - Quebec |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: On one level, Peter Moogk's latest book, La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada--A Cultural History, is a candid exploration of the troubled historical relationship that exists between the inhabitants of French- and English- speaking Canada. At the same time, it is a long- overdue study of the colonial social institutions, values, and experiences that shaped modern French Canada. Moogk draws on a rich body of evidence--literature; statistical studies; government, legal, and private documents in France, Britain, and North America-- and traces the roots of the Anglo-French cultural struggle to the seventeenth century. In so doing, he discovered a New France vastly different from the one portrayed in popular mythology. French relations with Native Peoples, for instance, were strained. The colony of New France was really no single entity, but rather a chain of loosely aligned outposts stretching from Newfoundland in the east to the Illinois Country in the west. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moogk, Peter N.: - Peter N. Moogk is Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. |