Marital Conflict, Ethnicity, and Legal Hybridity in Postconquest Quebec
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Marital Conflict, Ethnicity, and Legal Hybridity in Postconquest Quebec
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Abstract |
The authors explore the terrain of marital conflict in Quebec between 1763 and 1830, focusing on a variety of strategies employed by husbands and wives, ranging from elopement, criminal prosecution for marital violence, and separation. Based on an intensive analysis of the colonial newspapers and a large judicial archive of both criminal and civil proceedings, they seek to discern patterns of ethnic inflection among men and women using these strategies, and seek to postulate a growing legal hybridity, one that particularly affected the assumptions and practice of French customary law in the first six decades following the British conquest.
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Journal of Family History
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Vol. 41
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no. 4
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430-450
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October 2016
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en
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Citation |
Christie, Nancy, and Michael Gauvreau. “Marital Conflict, Ethnicity, and Legal Hybridity in Postconquest Quebec.” Journal of Family History Vol. 41, no. 4 (October 2016): 430–450.
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