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“vincent auffrey”

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  • 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

    $21.99 CAD

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    The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal

    by Afua Cooper ...
    Writer, historian and poet Afua Cooper tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal in April 1734 and condemned to die a brutal death. In a powerful retelling of Angélique’s story -- now supported by archival illustrations -- Cooper builds on 15 years of research to shed new light on a rebellious ... Read more

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  • Champlain's Dream

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    The entralling biography of the visionary adventurer—explorer, master mariner, soldier, artist, spy—who has straddled our history for 400 years. David Hackett Fischer, one of North America’s most acclaimed historians, brings to life, with rare immediacy and drama, the story of Samuel de Champlain. A remarkable leader in his time, he dreamed of humanity and peace in a world riven by violence, built ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • 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

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $25.99 CAD

  • 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

    $32.79 CAD

  • History of Quebec For Dummies

    by Éric Bédard ...
    Grasp the unique history of Quebec? Easy.Packing in equal parts fun and facts, History of Quebec For Dummies is an engaging and entertaining guide to the history of Canada's second-largest province, covering the conflicts, cultures, ideas, politics, and social changes that have shaped Quebec as we know it today."My country isn't a country, it is winter!" sings the poet Gilles Vigneault . . . ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Quebec

    by John A. Dickinson, Brian Young ...
    John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • 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

    $38.99 CAD

  • Songs Upon the Rivers

    The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific

    by Robert Foxcurran, Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette ...
    Long before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across the continent. They founded settlements that would become great cities such as Detroit, Saint Louis, and New Orleans, but their history has been largely buried or relegated to local lore or confined to Quebec. Foxcurran, Bouchard, and Malette ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Colonial Affair

    Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India

    by Danna Agmon ...
    Danna Agmon's gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the "Nayiniyappa Affair" in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is replete with merchants, missionaries, local brokers, government administrators, and even the French royal family.Agmon's compelling account draws ... Read more

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  • New France 1701-1744

    A Supplement to Europe

    by Dale Miquelon ...
    Series Book 4 - The Canadian Centenary Series
    Volume IV of the Canadian Centenary SeriesNow available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.Bracketed by wars between the empires of France and Britain, the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD