Quebec and the Heritage of Franco-America (Institute of Latin American Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900039982 ISBN 13: 9781900039987

Publisher: University of London Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec. It consists of six essays by a team of contributors drawn from Quebec, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. The book explores the concept of Franco-American heritage not as a modern remnant of a lost French North American empire but a thriving entity that grew in both vitality and geographical spread in the centuries after the British Conquest of 1759.

Two points are fundamental to the essays in the book:

· Franco-America's heritage was neither French nor American but something different and unique from both.

· Its geographical extent spread far beyond its birthplace in Quebec province and penetrated into large parts of so-called Anglo-America—in other words, it was continental rather than provincial in nature.

About this title

About the Author:

Iwan Morgan is professor of United States studies and head of U.S. programs at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Philip Davies is professor of American studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, and director of the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of London Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1900039982
• ISBN 13: 9781900039987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 123
• Editor: Morgan Iwan, Davies Philip D.