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Along a River
Jan Noel
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Description for Along a River
paperback. Exploring how the daughters and granddaughters of the filles du roi adapted to their terrain, turned their hands to trade, and even acquired surprising influence at the French court, Along a River is an innovative and engagingly written history. Num Pages: 356 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
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 settlement of the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Victorian era.
Along a River builds the case that inside the cabins that stretched for miles along the shoreline, most early French-Canadian women retained old fashioned forms of economic production and customary rights over land ownership. Noel ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442612389
SKU
V9781442612389
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About Jan Noel
Jan Noel is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
Reviews for Along a River
‘Noel has crafted a work of academic scholarship that is bound to become a part of the Canadian history cannon… Highly recommended.’
B.F.R. Edwards
Choice Magazine; vol 51:05:14
‘Noel does an outstanding job of placing women in the context of familial fur-trade enterprises and within noble military families…The considerable strides made in the history of women in ... Read more
B.F.R. Edwards
Choice Magazine; vol 51:05:14
‘Noel does an outstanding job of placing women in the context of familial fur-trade enterprises and within noble military families…The considerable strides made in the history of women in ... Read more