Quebec and the Heritage of Franco-America (Institute of Latin American Studies) - Softcover

This study marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec and consists of six essays by a team of contributors drawn from Quebec, the USA, France and the UK. It explores the concept of Franco-American heritage as not a modern remnant of a lost French North American empire but a thriving entity that grew in both vitality and geographical spread in the centuries after the Conquest of 1759. Two things are fundamental to the essays in the collection: Franco-America's heritage was neither French nor American but something different and unique from both; and its geographical extent spread far beyond Quebec province, where it was born, and penetrated into large parts of so-called Anglo-America - in other words it was continental rather than provincial in nature.

Iwan Morgan is professor of United States studies and head of U.S. programs at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Philip Davies is professor of American studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, and director of the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies, UK.