Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal

Louise Dechêne‏

ינו׳ 1993 · Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec ספר 1 · McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Dechêne's work, when first published, constituted a major milestone in the development of methodology and use of sources. Her systematic examination of difficult and massive documentary collections blazed a number of new trails for other researchers. Her judicious blending of numerical data and "qualitative" findings makes this book one of the rare examples of "new history" that avoids the extremes of statistical abstraction and anecdotal antiquarianism. Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal won the Governor-General's Award and the Garneau Medal from the Canadian Historical Association when it first appeared in French.

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Louise Dechêne (1928-2000) was a professor in the Department of History at McGill University and author of Power and Subsistence: The Political Economy of Grain in New France.