Description: A study of Acadian and French rural societies that challenges conventional interpretations of identity and agency in the Atlantic world.
Brief description: Gregory M.W. Kennedy est doyen de la faculté des arts à l'Université de Brandon au Manitoba et l'auteur de Something of a Peasant Paradise?: Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755 et Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War.
Review Quotes: "In Acadian historiography, Something of a Peasant Paradise? is a healthily revisionist work that will alter our understanding and stimulate productive and ongoing interpretive debate." John Reid, Department of History, Saint Mary's University