Author: William John EcclesPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826307064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This acclaimed general history of ‘New France’ recounts the French era in Canada.
The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760
Author: William John EcclesPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826307064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This acclaimed general history of ‘New France’ recounts the French era in Canada.
La Salle and the Rise of New France
Author: Janet SniderPublisher: Summerhurst Books
ISBN: 9780968804933
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A look at the life of French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle--who became famous for his exploration of many lakes and rivers in North America--and the development of New France.
Petun to Wyandot
Author: Charles GarradPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776621505
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
In Petun to Wyandot, Charles Garrad draws upon five decades of research to tell the turbulent history of the Wyandot tribe, the First Nation once known as the Petun. Combining and reconciling primary historical sources, archaeological data and anthropological evidence, Garrad has produced the most comprehensive study of the Petun Confederacy. Beginning with their first encounters with French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1616 and extending to their decline and eventual dispersal, this book offers an account of this people from their own perspective and through the voices of the nations, tribes and individuals that surrounded them. Through a cross-reference of views, including historical testimony from Jesuits, European explorers and fur traders, as well as neighbouring tribes and nations, Petun to Wyandot uncovers the Petun way of life by examining their culture, politics, trading arrangements and legends. Perhaps most valuable of all, it provides detailed archaeological evidence from the years of research undertaken by Garrad and his colleagues in the Petun Country, located in the Blue Mountains of Central Ontario. Along the way, the author meticulously chronicles the work of other historians and examines their theories regarding the Petun's enigmatic life story.
Harvest of Souls
Author: Carole BlackburnPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773527690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In 1632 Jesuit missionary Paul Le Jeune, newly arrived at the fort of Quebec, wrote the first of the Relations to his superior in Paris, initiating a series of biannual mission reports that came to be known as the Jesuit Relations. In Harvest of Souls Carole Blackburn presents a contemporary interpretation of the 1632-1650 Relations, arguing that they are colonizing texts in which the Jesuits use language, imagery, and forms of knowledge to legitimize relations of inequality with the Huron and Montagnais. By combining textual analysis with an ethnographic study of the Jesuits Blackburn is able to reveal the gap between the domineering language of the Relations and the limited authority that the Jesuits were able to exercise over Native people, who actively challenged much of what the Jesuits tried to do and say. She highlights the struggle between the Jesuits and Natives over the meaning of Christianity. The Jesuits' attempted to convey their Christian message through Native languages and cultural idioms. Blackburn shows that this resulted in the displacement of much of the content of the message and demonstrates that the Native people's acts of resistance took up and transformed aspects of the Jesuits' teachings in ways that subverted their authority.
A History of the Christian Church in Canada
Author: John Webster GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Wisconsin
Author: Robert Carrington NesbitPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299108045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Robert Nesbit's classic single-volume history of Wisconsin was expanded by Wisconsin State Historian William F. Thompson to include the period from 1940 to the late 1980s, along with updated bibliographies and appendices. First paperback edition.
Companions of Champlain
Author: Denise R. LarsonPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353678
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The stories of the companions of Samuel de Champlain, the families who lives, worked, survived, and endured life at an isolated trading post in the strange New World-- these stories add flesh to the dry bones of the history of the seventeenth-century Age of Exploration.
Selected Reading Lists for Advanced Study
Author: The History of Wisconsin, Volume I
Author: Alice E. SmithPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870206281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
Published in 1973, this first volume in the History of Wisconsin series remains the definitive work on Wisconsin's beginnings, from the arrival of the French explorer Jean Nicolet in 1634, to the attainment of statehood in 1848. This volume explores how Wisconsin's Native American inhabitants, early trappers, traders, explorers, and many immigrant groups paved the way for the territory to become a more permanent society. Including nearly two dozen maps as well as illustrations of territorial Wisconsin and portraits of early residents, this volume provides an in-depth history of the beginnings of the state.
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