Militaristic Visions of New France in the French Atlantic World, 1663–1763
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Abstract
In this historiographical article, Gregory Kennedy discusses the evolution of the military history of New France within the transatlantic perspective, in particular, concerning the Seven Years’ War. Bringing together the magisterial work of Louise Dechêne, which is dedicated to war and society in New France, with new contributions from American historians working in the field, Kennedy demonstrates that the Atlantic turn has opened new avenues of inquiry with regard to agency and military service. He situates these developments in larger debates about the nature of New France society, including reference to particular militaristic visions emanating from Versailles as well as local conditions in Acadie. Historical actors (metropolitan, colonial, and Indigenous) interpreted military objectives, victories, and setbacks in different ways. Culture and sociability emerged as key themes for the effective integration of regular, militia, and allied forces. Events in New France – in particular, the large-scale mobilization of the habitant militia – ultimately influenced Enlightenment thinking about military reform and patriotism in France. They also shaped the administration of a new British North America.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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