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1 online resource (xviii, 353 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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McGill-Queen's studies in early Canada ; 4
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McGill-Queen's studies in early Canada ; 4.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone. Though the Canadiens worked for French colonial authorities, they were not unwavering agents of imperial power. Increasingly they found themselves between two worlds as they built relationships with Indigenous communities, sometimes joining them through adoption or marriage, raising families of their own. The result was an ambivalent empire that grew in fits and starts. It was guided by imperfect information, built upon a contested Indigenous borderland, fragmented by local interests, and periodically neglected by government administrators. Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of the Canadiens who used family and kinship ties to navigate between sovereign Indigenous nations and the French colonial government from the early 1660s to the 1780s. Acting as cultural intermediaries, the Canadiens made it possible for France to extend its presence into northwest North America. Over time, however, their ambivalent relationships with the French colonial state splintered imperial authority, leading to an outcome that few could have foreseen - the emergence of a new Indigenous culture, language, people, and nation: the Métis."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- La Vérendrye and the Roots of the Métis People -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Battle for the Hudson Bay Watershed, 1663-1714 -- Transatlantic Networks, Backcountry Specialists, and French Imperial Projects in Post-Utrecht North America, 1715-1729 -- Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye and the Western Posts, 1731-1743 -- Canadiens at the Western Posts, 1731-1743 -- Métissage and Kinship -- From Métissage to Métis -- A Métis Homeland -- The Hudson's Bay Company and the Anglo-Métis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
French-Canadians -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
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Fur trade -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
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Métis -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
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Canada -- Race relations -- History.
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Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History.
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Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
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French Canadians -- Hudson Bay Region -- History. |
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Canadians, French-speaking -- Hudson Bay Region -- History. |
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HISTORY / Canada / General. |
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French-Canadians |
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Ethnic relations |
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Fur trade |
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Métis |
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Race relations |
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Canada https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkMHVW4rfVXPrhVP4VwG3 |
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Hudson Bay Region |
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To 1763 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Title |
French-Indigenous relations and the rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay watershed |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Berthelette, Scott. Heirs of an ambivalent empire. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 0228010594 9780228010593 (OCoLC)1273914953 |
| ISBN |
9780228012504 electronic book |
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0228012503 electronic book |
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9780228012498 electronic book |
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022801249X electronic book |
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9780228010593 paperback |
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0228010594 paperback |
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9780228010586 hardcover |
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0228010586 hardcover |
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