Article writing
Order DescriptionWrite a well-organized essay of 1000 words on ONE of the topics listed below.
Choose ONE of the following:
Compare the articles by McGhee, and Loewen and Delmas on early European approaches to the northeast.
Robert McGhee, “Vikings and Arctic Farmers: The Norse Atlantic Saga,” chap. 5 in The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Brad Loewen and Vincent Delmas, “The Basques in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Adjacent Shores,” Canadian Journal of Archaeology 36, no. 2 (2012): 213–266, e-book.
Compare the articles by Donovan, and Lachance and Savoie on social relations in New France.
Kenneth Donovan, “Slaves and their Owners in Île Royale, 1713–1760,” Acadiensis 25, no.1 (Autumn 1995): 3–32. https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/french_colonial_history/v005/5.1donovan.html.
André Lachance and Sylvie Savoie. “Violence, Marriage, and Family Honour: Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Marriage in New France,” chap. 5 in Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume V: Crime and Criminal Justice, eds. by Jim Phillips, Tina Loo and Susan Lewthwaite (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) 143–173.
Compare the articles by Moogk and Noel on European perceptions of Aboriginal societies.
Peter Moogk, “The ‘Others’ Who Never Were: Eastern Woodlands Amerindians and Europeans in the Seventeenth Century,” French Colonial History 1 (2002): 77–100. doi: 10.1353/fch.2011.0001.
Jan Noel, “Fertile with Fine Talk”: Ungoverned Tongues among Haudenosaunee Women and their Neighbors,” Ethnohistory 57, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 201–223. doi: 10.1215/00141801-2009-061.
Compare the articles by Griffiths on the Acadiens and Wicken on the Mi’kmaq.
Naomi Griffiths, “The Decision to Deport,” chap. 16 in From Migrant to Acadian: A North American Border People, 1604–1755 (Montréal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005): 431–464, (TRU library e-book, Search: From Migrant to Acadian)
William Wicken, “Mi’kmaq Decisions: Antoine Tecouenemac, the Conquest, and the Treaty of Utrecht,” chap. 5 in The Conquest of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial, and Aboriginal Constructions (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004): 86–100.
Compare the articles by Keough and Morgan on women and authority in colonial British North America.
Willeen Keough, “The Riddle of Peggy Mountain: Regulation of Irish Women’s Sexuality on the Southern Avalon, 1750–1860,” Acadiensis 31, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 38–70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30302887.
Cecilia Morgan, “’Of Slender Frame and Delicate Appearance’: the Placing of Laura Secord in the Narratives of Canadian Loyalist History,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 5, no. 1 (1994): 195–212. doi: 10.7202/031079ar.