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Peasant, lord, and merchant : rural society in three Quebec parishes, 1740-1840
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- Online
- Summary
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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.
Details
- Creator
- Allan Greer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 2nd ed
- Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press, 2002
- ©1985
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781442658431, 1442658436, 9781442627635, 1442627638, 0802065783
- OCLC
- ocn903441144, on1002273877, ocn903968520, ocn958562350, on1380845326
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [254]-298) and index.
- In English.
- Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y