This is also the year the Quebec Act was passed, which constituted, among other things, a concession by the British, fifteen years after the Conquest, to some aspects of the culture of metis populations. It was in 1774 that the troubled marriage of one Native woman and one French man ...
Founding Families: Power and Authority of Mixed French and Native Lineages In Eighteenth Century Detroit. 来自 掌桥科研 喜欢 0 阅读量: 16 作者: KL Marrero 摘要: This dissertation highlights French and Native contributions to Detroit's development in the eighteenth century as one of the busiest...
In 1776, numerous individuals, families, committees, congregations, localities, and states had already proclaimed their independence, and almost no remaining imperial structure could continue to operate with any legitimacy in what would very soon become thirteen states. By the very beginning of July ...