Something of a Peasant Paradise? Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755 Out of stock and beautifully illustrated by Mi''kmaw

and beautifully illustrated by Mi''kmaw illustrator Arthur Steven

To celebrate Mi-Carême

il fut aussi ministre du gouvernement

ILLUSTRATED BY: JOSÉE BISAILLON

Something of a Peasant Paradise? Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755 Out of stock and beautifully illustrated by Mi''kmawWere 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