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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"New France"”.
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Body marking within New France : a contemporary perspective
… markings and the culture surrounding them within New France during the French Regime dating from 1608-1763. The emphasis will be on early modern European writings, which have created the discourse that has been used to construct meanings for such body decorations. The approach comes from a …
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SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND AND NEW FRANCE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: NOTRE DAME DES ANGES---A CASE STUDY
<p>This work is a comparison of New England and New France in northeast North America in the seventeenth century. The study of New England relies on secondary works while the study of New France uses primary material. The seigneurie of Notre Dame des Anges, located north of Quebec City, was used as …
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French to Frenchness: Language shift and lieux de memoire in the American midwest
… (1) What happened to the language of the former New France in the Midwest; and (2) under what form did it survive, if at all.
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The French and Indian Wars: New France's Situational Indian Policies During the Fox and Natchez Conflicts, 1701-1732
… the often-glorified relationship between New France and the American Indians with which that empire came into contact in North America, focusing primarily on the conflicting policies seen during the Fox Wars and the Natchez Wars. Many recent histories of New France, including Richard …
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Samuel de Champlain and the French Wars of Religion
… of Samuel de Champlain focus on his trials in New France due to the substantial number of available sources. His early life remains understudied because there are no such sources regarding these years. This essay attempts to alleviate that disparity by utilizing primary materials not typically …
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Fact or fiction : L'Histoire du Canada and its influence on French Canadian novels
… s history, focusing on the development of New France from 1534 until 1841, was undertaken in response to Lord Durham's Report (1839) in which Durham stated that French Canadians were a people without a history or a literature. The popularity and success of Garneau's narrative led to his …
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Two French threats to North America, 1760-1783, as seen by British Colonial officials
… are covered, beginning with the surrender of New France by the Marquis de Vaudreuil to General Amherst on September 8th, 1760. Attention is given to the rebellion itself, followed by an account of the difficulties experienced by the British in their efforts to occupy the Illinois Country. The …
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"Loing du Soleil" : architectural practice in Quebec City during the French regime
… was produced in Quebec City, capital of New France, at the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The first part deals with the attitude of institutional clients, for whom buildings constituted an important means by which to establish power and social …
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Languages, Translation, and Encounters in the Seventeenth-Century North Atlantic World
Early modern migrations to the New World and transatlantic travel presented new challenges and opportunities for translingual practices. Spotlighting encounters between Indigenous people and settlers from England and France, my thesis investigates how languages functioned and were perceived in the …
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In Each Other’s Arms: France and the St. Lawrence Mission Villages in War and Peace, 1630-1730
Beginning in the late 1630s, a diversity of Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples established under the auspices of Jesuit and, later, Sulpician missionaries a string of village communities in the St. Lawrence Valley. A diversity of peoples, whom the French lumped under the rubrics of “Algonquins”, …
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Réception and Indigenous representation: French colonial theatre in Nouvelle France 1606-1727
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Inventing "crime" in a lawless land: legal conflict, racial formation, and conquest in the North American interior
… It examines the period between the fall of New France in 1763 and the invasion of the Canadian and American settler states in this area around 1850. It argues that British and American administrators transformed the fur trade from a system by which they managed political alliances with …