Peasant, Lord, and Merchant : : Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840 / / Allan Greer.
Rural life in pre-industrial Quebec was essentially organized around a feudal society. Allan Greer takes a close look at the at society and its economy in three parishes in Lower Richelieu valley - Sorel, St Ours, and St Denis - from 1740 to 1840. He finds a pronounced pattern of household self-suff...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©1985 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Heritage
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: seventeenth-century beginnings -- 2 The peasant family household -- 3 Generations of peasants -- 4 Aristocratic ascendancy -- 5 The feudal burden -- 6 The country merchant -- 7 Habitant-voyageurs -- 8 Turning the nineteenth century: development or crisis? -- Appendices -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | Rural life in pre-industrial Quebec was essentially organized around a feudal society. Allan Greer takes a close look at the at society and its economy in three parishes in Lower Richelieu valley - Sorel, St Ours, and St Denis - from 1740 to 1840. He finds a pronounced pattern of household self-sufficiency; as in other peasant societies, the habitants lived mainly from produce grown throught their own efforts on their own lands. How the family-based economy operated and how the household was reproduced over the generations through marriage, birth, inheritance, and colonization, together form a major focus of this study. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781442627635 9783110490947 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781442627635 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Allan Greer. |