"On one level, Peter Moogk's latest book, La   Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada--A Cultural History, is a   candid exploration of  the troubled historical relationship that exists   between the inhabitants of French- and English-speaking Canada. At the   same time, it is a long-overdue study of  the colonial social   institutions, values, and experiences that shaped modern French Canada.   Moogk draws on a rich body of evidence--literature; statistical   studies; government, legal, and private documents in France, Britain,   and North America--and traces the roots of the Anglo-French cultural   struggle to the seventeenth century. In so doing, he discovered a New   France vastly different from the one portrayed in popular mythology.   French relations with Native Peoples, for instance, were strained. The   colony of New France was really no single entity, but rather a chain of   loosely aligned outposts stretching from Newfoundland in the east to   the Illinois Country in the west.  Moogk also found that many early immigrants to New France were   reluctant exiles from their homeland and that a high percentage   returned to Europe. Those who stayed, the Acadians and Canadians, were   politically conservative and retained Old Regime values: feudal social   hierarchies remained strong; one's individualism tended to be familial,   not personal; Roman Catholicism molded attitudes and was as important   as language in defining Acadian and Canadian identities. It was, Moogk   concludes, the pre-French Revolution Bourbon monarchy and its   institutions that shaped modern French Canada, in particular the   Province of Quebec, and set its people apart from the rest of the   nation.

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