The French and Indian War was the world’s first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire alon

The British victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 and the subsequent Conquest of Canada were undoubtedly significant geopolitical events, but their

A brief overview of French colonial society before the British conquest of 1759-60. The primary focus is on what is now called Quebec, but there are also chapte

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across the long twen

Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.