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An unparalleled look at AmericaÍs Revolutionary War invasion of Canada
Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada. Thousands of Acadians endured three decades of forced migrations and failed settlements that shuttled them to the coasts of South America, the plantations of the Caribbean, the frigid islands of the South Atlantic, the swamps of Louisiana, and the countryside of central France. The Acadian Diaspora tells their extraordinary story in full for the first time, il...
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De la cabane temporaire à la grande habitation, en passant par la maison du colon ou du notable, cette étude très documentée aborde de façon détaillée l'architecture vernaculaire du Québec, ces maisons construites par les habitants. L'auteur expose la combinaison des facteurs géographiques, les logiques alimentaires, sociales et techniques qui constituent les ressorts profonds de ces maisons rurales, construites en bois, solides et fonctionnelles.
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