Voices in the legal archives in the French colonial world : "the king is listening" / edited by Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau, and Matthew Gerber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christie, Nancy, 1958- editor.

Gauvreau, Michael, 1956- editor.

Gerber, Matthew, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Series:

Routledge research in early modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--France--Colonies--History--17th century.

Law.

Law--France--Colonies--History--18th century.

Practice of law--France--Colonies--History--17th century.

Practice of law.

Practice of law--France--Colonies--History--18th century.

Interdiction (Civil law)--France--Colonies--History.

Interdiction (Civil law).

History.

Colonies.

France.

Law--French overseas departments--History.

French overseas departments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 365 pages).

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Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Nancy Christie is Research Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. She has published widely in the fields of empire, gender, law and the state. Michael Gauvreau is Professor of History at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He researches in the intellectual, religious, and social history of Canada and Quebec. Matthew Gerber is Associate Professor of History at University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. He specializes in the history of early modern France and its colonies.

Contents:

Controlling Haitian history : the legal archive of Moreau de Saint-Méry / Malick W. Ghachem

Proof of freedom, proof of enslavement : the limits of documentation in colonial Saint-Domingue / Jennifer L. Palmer

Silencing madmen : the legal process of interdiction, Saint-Domingue, eighteenth century / Marie Houllemare

The treatment of domestic servants in Canada's justice system under the French regime : a conciliatory approach? / Arnaud Bessière

Contesting the Seigneurial Corvée : two generations of peasant litigation in eighteenth-century Angoumois / Emily Rap

Between property and person : the ambiguous status of slaves in eighteenth-century Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Saint-Domingue / Matthew Gerber

Trust, obligation, and the racialized credit market in pre-revolutionary cap Français / Meredith Gaffield

The inhabitants "appear are not such fools as a menny thinks" : credit, debt, and peasant litigation in post-conquest Quebec / Michael Gauvreau and Nancy Christie

The voice of the litigant, the voice of the spokesman? : the role of interpreters in trials in Canada under the French regime (17th and 18th Centuries) / Éric Wenzel

Voices of litigating women in new France during the 17th and 18th centuries : elements of research on the judicial culture of the appellants in the archives of the Royal Jurisdiction of Montreal (1693-1760) / Dominique Deslandres

Slaves as witnesses, slaves as evidence : French and British prosecution of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean / Susan Peabody

When French islands became British : law, property, and inheritance in the ceded islands / Heather Freund

Contested spaces of law and economy : legal hybridity and the marital economy within Quebec's merchant communities / Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Voices in the legal archives in the French Colonial World

ISBN:

9781003051367

1003051367

9781000193817

1000193810

9781000193855

1000193853

9781000193831

1000193837

Publisher Number:

99985821351

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