Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840 (Heritage) - Softcover

Greer, Allan

 
9780802065780: Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840 (Heritage)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802065783 ISBN 13: 9780802065780
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1985

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Allan Greer is a Professor in the Department of History at McGill University.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
1985
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802065783
ISBN 13 
9780802065780
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
304

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9780802025593: Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740-1840 (Social History of Canada)

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