audiobook An Historical and Critical Account Of A Grand Series Of National Medals by James Mudie in History

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Drawing comparisons with the broader Huguenot diaspora; this book reassesses the prevailing view that Huguenots in North America quickly conformed to Anglicanism and abandoned the French language and other distinctive characteristics in order to assimilate into Anglo-American culture. Although the standard interpretation may still be true for Huguenots in heterogeneous urban communities; it should be modified for Huguenots in ethnically and religiously homogeneous rural settlements like New Paltz and New Rochelle; where the process was more akin to a gradual acculturation.