People, State, and War Under the French Regime in Canada

Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary people.

About the author

Louise Dechêne (1928-2000) was professor in the Department of History at McGill University and author of Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal and Power and Subsistence: The Political Economy of Grain in New France. She is a recipient of the Governor General's Literary Award and twice winner of the Lionel-Groulx Prize.

Summary

Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary people.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Dechene, Louise Dechêne
• Assisted by: Peter Feldstein (Translation)
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780228006770
• ISBN: 978-0-228-00677-0
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 42 mm
• Weight: 930 g
• Series: McGill-Queen's French Atlantic; McGill-Queen's French Atlantic Worlds Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous