Métissage in New France and Canada 1508 to 1886
Record details
- ISBN: 9783631589755 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 3631589751 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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313 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Dissertation. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-301). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Bringing Indians to the Old World and French settlements in the New World -- Converting, instructing and assimilating Indians: Frenchification and evangelisation -- Marriage policies and miscegenation: mixed and non-mixed marriages as final colonial strategy -- From Frenchification and mixed marriages to metissage: geographical, social and tribal contexts and practices -- From the process of metissage to mixed-blood individuals and groups: the emergence of the Metis -- The community formation of the Metis. |