People, State, and War Under the French Regime in Canada, Paperback by Dechên...

by Louise Dechêne

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People, State, and War Under the French Regime in Canada, Paperback by Dechêne, Louise; Feldstein, Peter (TRN); Wien, Thomas (FRW), ISBN 0228006775, ISBN-13 9780228006770, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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. Overturning the tendency to glorify the military feats of New France and exploding the rosy myth of a tax-free colonial population, Louise Dechêne challenges the stereotype of the fighting prowess and military enthusiasm of the colony’s inhabitants. She reveals the profound incidence of social divides, the hardship war created for those expected to serve, and the state’s demands on the civilian population in the form of forced labour, requisitions, and billeting of soldiers. Originally published posthumously in French, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is the culmination of a lifetime of research and unparalleled knowledge of the archival record, including official correspondence, memoirs, military campaign journals, taxation records, and local parish records. Dechêne reconstructs the variegated composition and conditions of military forces in New France, which included militia, colonial volunteers, and regular troops, as well as Indigenous allie

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2021
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780228006770
• Condition: Fine

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