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Something of a Peasant Paradise? : Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755 by Gregory Michael William Kennedy is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Were Acadians better off than their rural counterparts in old regime France? Did they enjoy a Golden Age? To what degree did a distinct Acadian identity emerge before the wars and deportations of the mid-eighteenth century? In Something of a Peasant Paradise?, Gregory Kennedy compares Acadie in North America with a region of western France, the Loudunais, from which a number of the colonists originated. Kennedy considers the natural environment, the role of the state, the economy, the seigneury,
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- Author
- Gregory Michael William Kennedy
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen’s University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780773593046
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Anthropology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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