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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.



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"This is the most important book on the history of New France in a long time. It significantly shifts our understanding of war and society, challenging an older historiography and leveraging themes inspired by Atlantic and comparative history to say something new and definitive about the conquest, the experiences of ordinary people, and the nature of different forms of military service." Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Université de Moncton and author of Something of a Peasant Paradise? Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604–1755


"Louise Dechêne's empathic but unflinching regard for the lives of common people comes together with her Foucauldian interest in power relations in this study of warfare and wars." Leslie Choquette, Assumption University and author of Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada


“People, State, and War is an indispensable resource for scholars of New France.” Ethnohistory

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      Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/07/2021
      ISBN13: 9780228006770, 978-0228006770
      ISBN10: 0228006775
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      Colonialism and imperialism

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review

      "This is the most important book on the history of New France in a long time. It significantly shifts our understanding of war and society, challenging an older historiography and leveraging themes inspired by Atlantic and comparative history to say something new and definitive about the conquest, the experiences of ordinary people, and the nature of different forms of military service." Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Université de Moncton and author of Something of a Peasant Paradise? Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604–1755


      "Louise Dechêne's empathic but unflinching regard for the lives of common people comes together with her Foucauldian interest in power relations in this study of warfare and wars." Leslie Choquette, Assumption University and author of Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada


      “People, State, and War is an indispensable resource for scholars of New France.” Ethnohistory

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