LEADER 05472nam 2200709 450 001 9910789289603321 005 20211008015927.0 010 $a0-8014-7038-2 010 $a0-8014-7039-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801470394 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092357 035 $a(OCoLC)872115595 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10843911 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001134431 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12376567 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134431 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11162011 035 $a(PQKB)10788090 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510114 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138577 035 $a(OCoLC)1080551882 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58498 035 $a(DE-B1597)478431 035 $a(OCoLC)1004879850 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801470394 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138577 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10843911 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683578 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092357 100 $a20140315h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNobility lost $eFrench and Canadian martial cultures, Indians, and the end of New France /$fChristian Ayne Crouch 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a1-322-52296-0 311 0 $a0-8014-5244-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Glory beyond the Water --$t1. Onontio's War, Louis XV's Peace --$t2. Interpreting Landscapes of Violence --$t3. Culture Wars in the Woods --$t4. Assigning a Value to Valor --$t5. The Losing Face of France --$t6. Paradise --$tEpilogue: Mon Frère Sauvage --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aNobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy. This narrative highlights the relationship between events in France and events in America and frames them dialogically, as the actors themselves experienced them at the time. Christian Ayne Crouch examines how codes of martial valor were enacted and challenged by metropolitan and colonial leaders to consider how those acts affected French-Indian relations, the culture of French military elites, ideas of male valor, and the trajectory of French colonial enterprises afterwards, in the second half of the eighteenth century. At Versailles, the conflict pertaining to the means used to prosecute war in New France would result in political and cultural crises over what constituted legitimate violence in defense of the empire. These arguments helped frame the basis for the formal French cession of its North American claims to the British in the Treaty of Paris of 1763.While the French regular army, the troupes de terre (a late-arriving contingent to the conflict), framed warfare within highly ritualized contexts and performances of royal and personal honor that had evolved in Europe, the troupes de la marine (colonial forces with economic stakes in New France) fought to maintain colonial land and trade. A demographic disadvantage forced marines and Canadian colonial officials to accommodate Indian practices of gift giving and feasting in preparation for battle, adopt irregular methods of violence, and often work in cooperation with allied indigenous peoples, such as Abenakis, Hurons, and Nipissings. Drawing on Native and European perspectives, Crouch shows the period of the Seven Years' War to be one of decisive transformation for all American communities. Ultimately the augmented strife between metropolitan and colonial elites over the aims and means of warfare, Crouch argues, raised questions about the meaning and cost of empire not just in North America but in the French Atlantic and, later, resonated in France's approach to empire-building around the globe. The French government examined the cause of the colonial debacle in New France at a corruption trial in Paris (known as l'affaire du Canada), and assigned blame. Only colonial officers were tried, and even those who were acquitted found themselves shut out of participation in new imperial projects in the Caribbean and in the Pacific. By tracing the subsequent global circumnavigation of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a decorated veteran of the French regulars, 1766-1769, Crouch shows how the lessons of New France were assimilated and new colonial enterprises were constructed based on a heightened jealousy of French honor and a corresponding fear of its loss in engagement with Native enemies and allies. 606 $aSeven Years' War, 1756-1763$xCampaigns$zNew France 606 $aAnglo-French War, 1755-1763 606 $aIndians of North America$xWars$y1750-1815 607 $aCanada$xHistory$y1755-1763 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yLouis XV, 1715-1774 615 0$aSeven Years' War, 1756-1763$xCampaigns 615 0$aAnglo-French War, 1755-1763. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xWars 676 $a940.2/534 700 $aCrouch$b Christian Ayne$f1977-$01496416 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789289603321 996 $aNobility lost$93721064 997 $aUNINA