McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada – serie
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Before Canada
Northern North America in a Connected World
Av Allan Greer
Häftad, 2024
510 kr
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Long before Confederation created a nation-state in northern North America, Indigenous people were establishing vast networks and trade routes. Volcanic eruptions pushed the ancestors of the Dene to undertake a trek from the present-day Northwest Territories to Arizona. Inuit migrated across the …
Touch of Fire
Marie-André Duplessis, the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, and the Writing of New France
Häftad, 2020
510 kr
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Marie-André Duplessis (1687-1760) guided the Augustinian sisters at the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec - the oldest hospital north of Mexico - where she was elected mother superior six times. Although often overshadowed by colonial nuns who became foundresses or saints, she was a powerhouse during the last …
Entangling the Quebec Act
Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire
Av Ollivier Hubert, François Furstenberg
Häftad, 2020
510 kr
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Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment - indeed part of the "textbook narrative" - in several different national …
Listening to the Fur Trade
Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760–1840
Inbunden, 2022
581 kr
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As fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and – very occasionally – bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a …
Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire
French-Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay Watershed
Häftad, 2022
452 kr
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The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone.Though the Canadiens worked for French colonial …
Possession of Barbe Hallay
Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada
Av Mairi Cowan
Inbunden, 2022
1456 kr
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When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec during the autumn of 1660, people began to worry about evil forces in their midst. They feared that witches and magicians had arrived in the colony, and a teenaged servant named Barbe Hallay started to act as if she were possessed. The community …
Possession of Barbe Hallay
Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada
Av Mairi Cowan
Häftad, 2022
325 kr
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When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec during the autumn of 1660, people began to worry about evil forces in their midst. They feared that witches and magicians had arrived in the colony, and a teenaged servant named Barbe Hallay started to act as if she were possessed. The community …
Enthusiasms and Loyalties
The Public History of Private Feelings in the Enlightenment Atlantic
Inbunden, 2022
1500 kr
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The Enlightenment Atlantic was awash in deep feelings. People expressed the ardour of patriots, the homesickness of migrants, the fear of slave revolts, the ecstasy of revivals, the anger of mobs, the grief of wartime, the disorientation of refugees, and the joys of victory. Yet passions and …
Enthusiasms and Loyalties
The Public History of Private Feelings in the Enlightenment Atlantic
Häftad, 2022
452 kr
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The Enlightenment Atlantic was awash in deep feelings. People expressed the ardour of patriots, the homesickness of migrants, the fear of slave revolts, the ecstasy of revivals, the anger of mobs, the grief of wartime, the disorientation of refugees, and the joys of victory. Yet passions and …
Fashioning Acadians
Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650–1750
Av Hilary Doda
Inbunden, 2023
754 kr
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What people wore in the distant past is often challenging to determine, owing to the disintegration of natural textiles and materials over time. Yet when new findings from archaeological excavations are compared with documentation about early Acadia, a fascinating picture of the society's early …
Before Canada
Northern North America in a Connected World
Av Allan Greer
Inbunden, 2024
1270 kr
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Long before Confederation created a nation-state in northern North America, Indigenous people were establishing vast networks and trade routes. Volcanic eruptions pushed the ancestors of the Dene to undertake a trek from the present-day Northwest Territories to Arizona. Inuit migrated across the …
Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France
Histoire des spiritualités individuelles et collectives en espace colonial
Av Joy Palacios, Anne Régent-Susini
Inbunden, 2024
1233 kr
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La Nouvelle-France offre un laboratoire historique pour examiner l’interaction entre les dimensions individuelles et collectives de la spiritualité. Séparés de la France par l’Atlantique tout en étant reliés aux communautés religieuses, aux familles, aux doctrines et aux mentalités françaises, les …
Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France
Histoire des spiritualités individuelles et collectives en espace colonial
Av Joy Palacios, Anne Régent-Susini
Häftad, 2024
495 kr
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La Nouvelle-France offre un laboratoire historique pour examiner l’interaction entre les dimensions individuelles et collectives de la spiritualité. Séparés de la France par l’Atlantique tout en étant reliés aux communautés religieuses, aux familles, aux doctrines et aux mentalités françaises, les …
Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688–1783
Inbunden, 2025
1272 kr
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During the eighteenth century, the French and British empires mobilized thousands of workers in what is now Canada through a system of mandatory labour known as corvée. Rooted in the feudal obligations of peasants to their landlords, corvée was introduced by the French, and later exploited by the …
Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688–1783
Häftad, 2025
510 kr
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During the eighteenth century, the French and British empires mobilized thousands of workers in what is now Canada through a system of mandatory labour known as corvée. Rooted in the feudal obligations of peasants to their landlords, corvée was introduced by the French, and later exploited by the …
Canada in the Age of Rum
Av Allan Greer
Inbunden, 2026
337 kr
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Awash in a sea of rum describes the years between the 1670s and the 1830s in the colonies that would later become Canada. Millions of litres of the sugar-based liquor were imported every year to supply a comparatively small population of colonists and Indigenous people. Why rum, and why so much?Rum …
Early Modern Maritime Recipes
Circulating Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Häftad, 2026
430 kr
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Describing how to pickle beef, make a low-cost substitution for sugar, waterproof a coat, or treat kidney stones, eighteenth-century settler recipes recorded a wide range of processes essential to daily life. Early Modern Maritime Recipes offers a compendium of culinary, medicinal, and domestic …
Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire
French-Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay Watershed
Inbunden, 2022
1615 kr
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The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone.Though the Canadiens worked for French colonial …
