LEADER 04170nam 2200673 450 001 9910812118603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7735-9054-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773590540 035 $a(CKB)2550000001251023 035 $a(EBL)3332687 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001217258 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11789876 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001217258 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11202073 035 $a(PQKB)10929677 035 $a(OCoLC)1055399384$z(OCoLC)866047877$z(OCoLC)881552270$z(OCoLC)961654051$z(OCoLC)962636167 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332687 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10856348 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL586021 035 $a(OCoLC)866047877 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/v1tb0s 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332687 035 $a(DE-B1597)655009 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773590540 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001251023 100 $a20140412h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSomething of a peasant paradise? $ecomparing rural societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755 /$fGregory M. W. Kennedy ; book designed by Pata Macedo 210 1$aMontre?al, Que?bec :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7735-4342-2 311 $a1-306-54770-9 327 $a""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 The Natural Environment""; ""Chapter 2 The Political and Military Environment""; ""Chapter 3 The Rural Economy""; ""Chapter 4 The Seigneury""; ""Chapter 5 Institutions of Local Governance""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W"" 330 $aWere 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, and local governance in each place to show that similarities between the two societies have been greatly underestimated or ignored. The Acadian colonists and the people of the Loudunais were frontier peoples, with dispersed settlement patterns based on kin groups, who sought to make the best use of the land and to profit from trade opportunities. Both societies were hierarchical, demonstrated a high degree of political agency, and employed the same institutions of local governance to organize their affairs and negotiate state demands. Neither group was inherently more prosperous, egalitarian, or independent-minded than the other. Rather, the emergence of a distinct Acadian identity can be traced to the gradual adaptation of traditional methods, institutions, and ideas to their new environmental and political situations. A compelling comparative analysis based on archival evidence on both sides of the Atlantic, Something of a Peasant Paradise? Challenges the traditional historiography and demonstrates that Acadian society shared many of its characteristics with other French rural societies of the period. 606 $aPeasants$zAcadia$xHistory 606 $aPeasants$zFrance$zLoudun$xHistory 606 $aAcadians$xHistory 607 $aAcadia$xHistory 607 $aLoudun (France)$xHistory 615 0$aPeasants$xHistory. 615 0$aPeasants$xHistory. 615 0$aAcadians$xHistory. 676 $a971.5/017 700 $aKennedy$b Gregory M. W.$01719103 702 $aMacedo$b Pata 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812118603321 996 $aSomething of a peasant paradise$94116623 997 $aUNINA