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MAINTENANCE. By studying Acadian society, populated by French settlers, Vincent Geloso, economic historian, demonstrates that a prosperous society can exist without a state.
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En 1756, a conflict between European powers broke out: it opposed two alliances, the kingdom of France and Habsburg Austria, on the one hand, Great Britain and Prussia, on the other. Little discussed, this war nevertheless has a specificity: it is the first to take place on several continents simultaneously. It also put an end to an experience of stateless governance in Acadia, then populated by French settlers and Micmac Amerindians. It is this governance and its functioning that the economic historian Vincent Geloso studied for an academic article entitled “Trade or raid: Acadian settlers and native Americans before 1755”, published in the journal Audience Choice. The prosperity of this society must, according to him, lead us to reconsider the place…
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