books.google.ca - Dechêne's work, when first published, constituted a major milestone in the development of methodology and use of sources. Her systematic examination of difficult and massive documentary collections blazed a number of new trails for other researchers. Her judicious blending of numerical data and "qualitative"...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Habitants_and_Merchants_in_Seventeenth_C.html?id=BL9X4N4DPBAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHabitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal
