Peasant, Lord, and Merchant : : Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840 / / Allan Greer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Greer, Allan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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