HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Quebec Act, Habitants, Night Terror
17 Dec 2012
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Je me souviens: myth and memory, conquest and compromise. Week six: the conquest as myth and memory **clash of social formations. Feared not living up to mother and father. Weird looking guy: deeply narcotic and haunted by night terrors. Habitant send families into quebec while men create armies and attack english. Spends months trying to get quebec people to come out: je me souviens : french memory of the conquest. Wolfe the dauntless hero written in 1867. 1978: quebec government changed license plates to: je me souviens: the death of general wolfe . Painting shows first nations at death when he hated them. The conquest as socio-economic process: the difference demography makes. British rule meant end to french and native interactions. Despite internal growth rate their was only around 70000 people in new france. Over same period, english uparded more than a million people. Demograohic swamping: enclosures, clearances, and the capitalist transformation of europe.
