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Métissage in New France and Canada 1508 to 1886

Devrim Karahasan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2009
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-58975-5 (ISBN)

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This book deals with métissage in New France and Canada in the period 1508 to 1886. Métissage is understood as a syncretistic process of cultural, social and political encounter and mixture of ethnic groups that resulted from mixed marriages and relationships. Those led to the rise of the Métis people in North America, which were distinguished as French-speaking Métis and English-speaking Halfbreeds. The process of mixture began in 1508, when first Indians were shipped to France with the intention to use them as multipliers of French culture on their return to the colony. In 1886, the Act of Savages legally distinguished between «Indians» and «Metis», thus marking the beginning of a mixed-blood identity in Canada that was differentiated from neighbouring Whites, Indians and Inuit. The theoretical approach of the history of concepts is employed in the longue durée to show the variance throughout four centuries.

The Author: Devrim Karahasan was born in Wanne-Eickel (Germany) in 1971. She studied History, Sociology and Political Science in Bochum, Bielefeld and Manchester and graduated with a Ph.D. at the European University Institute in Florence. She has worked as a journalist on human rights issues for papers and radio stations in Germany and Turkey and as a translator for British and American colleagues on topics of social, cultural and political history.

lt;i>Contents: Bringing Indians to the Old World and French Settlements in the New World - Converting, Instructing and Assimilating Indians - Métissage: Mixed and Non-mixed Marriages as Final Colonial Strategy - From Frenchification and Mixed Marriages to Métissage - From Métissage to Mixed-Blood Individuals and Groups: The Emergence of the Metis - The Community Formation of the Metis - Canadian Métissage and its Failures.

«Dans l'ensemble, l'auteure relève avec un certain brio les défis qu'entraîne une telle oeuvre de synthèse et de diachronie.(...) le lecteur trouvera un bel état des lieux relatif à l'importance et à la récurrence du métissage et du fait métis au pays, ainsi que sur les manières complexes et changeantes employées par les autorités colonials et canadiennes pour intellectualiser et contrôler cette réalité. En effet, l'originalité de ce livre repose moins sur les hypothèses posées et les résultats présentés que sur la pertinence d'une synthèse inscrite dans la longue durée. En ce sens, il est le bienvenu.» (Étienne Rivard, RECHERCHES AMÉRINDIENNES AU QUÉBEC)
«(...) Karahasan's sweeping work presents the only complete study that should help future scholars evaluate afresh the concepts of métissage and their effects on history and current politics.(...) This book challenges American historians' myopia about the American past as anchored in the English tradition only.» (Carol L. Higham, WERKSTATTGeschichte)
«Die Arbeit überzeugt durch die hohe wissenschaftliche Qualität der Analyse, welche nicht zuletzt durch die breite Literatur- und Quellenverwendung unterstrichen wird.» (Yvonne Barez, Francia-Recensio)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.8.2009
Reihe/Serie	Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes ; 1063
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	1508 • 1886 • Canada • Cultural Mixture • Devrim • France • Hardcover, Softcover / Geschichte/Neuzeit bis 1918 • Karahasan • Métissage • Mixed Marriages • Social Hierarchies
ISBN-10	3-631-58975-1 / 3631589751
ISBN-13	978-3-631-58975-5 / 9783631589755
Zustand	Neuware