La Nouvelle France : the making of French Canada : a cultural history /
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- Cyrano de Bergerac's imaginary voyage to Canada: a survey of the colony
- Europeans and "the wild people": French-Amerindian relations
- Scepter and Main de justice: government ambitions to create a renewed France in North America
- The difficulty of finding settlers for New France and the reluctant exile of Manon Lescaut's countrymen
- Sea voyagers and Bonhomme Terreneuve: the newcomer's reception and appeals to come home
- Proud as a Canadien, stubborn as an Acadien: the emergence of new peoples
- Group and institutional loyalties: social rank, occupation, and parish
- The sovereign family
- Magic and religion in the colonists' world.