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Frenchmen into Peasants
Leslie P. Choquette
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Hardcover. The peopling of French Canada across the 17th and 18th centuries is the focus of this book. Using archival material it traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 409 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBJK; HBLH; JFC; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 717.
In unprecedented detail, Leslie Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure. Her archival work is impressive: of the more than 30,000 emigrants who embarked for Quebec and the Maritimes during the French Regime, nearly 16,000 are chronicled here.
In considering the pattern of emigration in the context of migration history, Choquette shows that, in many ways, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
409
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Historical Studies
Number of Pages
409
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674323155
SKU
V9780674323155
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Leslie P. Choquette
Leslie P. Choquette is Associate Professor of History, Assumption College.
Reviews for Frenchmen into Peasants
A solid and original migration study.
Dale Miquelon
American Historical Review
The historiography of French Canada places the greatest emphasis on those who settled definitively in the colony, especially the 8527 or so who are the ancestors of over six million French-Canadians today. Leslie Choquette redresses the balance in this useful study of the migrants as a ... Read more
Dale Miquelon
American Historical Review
The historiography of French Canada places the greatest emphasis on those who settled definitively in the colony, especially the 8527 or so who are the ancestors of over six million French-Canadians today. Leslie Choquette redresses the balance in this useful study of the migrants as a ... Read more