| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada—a Cultural History. By Peter N. Moogk. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000. xx, 340 pp. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 0-87013-528-7.)

The author himself, Peter N. Moogk, evokes in the first phrase of his conclusion the opinion of this reviewer: "It may seem like a long stretch to link the modern French-speaking Canadians with a colony that was absorbed by the British Empire in the 1760s." His attempt to do so is courageous, and the resulting book is rich in factual material concerning conditions as they existed in the source regions of France and in the colonies, both Canada and Acadia, and to a lesser extent in the western territories. The descriptions are vivid and frequently moving, especially those concerning the passage from the Old World ports of France to New World destinations. Images of filth, misery, and death reminiscent of the slave trade are conjured up. . . .

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