Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740-1840University of Toronto Press, 01.01.1985 - 304 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
2 | 18 |
Generations of peasants | 48 |
Aristocratic ascendancy | 89 |
The feudal burden | 122 |
The country merchant | 140 |
Habitantvoyageurs | 177 |
development or crisis? | 194 |
APPENDICES | 233 |
NOTES | 254 |
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agrarian agricultural Allaire ANQM arpents Canadian capital cash census cent church colony concession deeds consumption Contrecoeur crops curé Custom of Paris death debts deeds of gift early nineteenth century economic eighteenth century engagés estate inventories example farm Félicité Fernand Ouellet feudal fief figures France François French Canada French régime French-Canadian fur trade grain trade gristmill habitant family harvest household Ibid important inheritance Jean-Baptiste labour land large number livestock livres Louise Dechêne Lower Canada Lower Richelieu Lussiers marriage married merchants minots minots of wheat Montreal Northwest Company notary parents parish peas peasantry peasants period Pierre de St population priests production purchase Quebec region revenues Richelieu valley Samuel Jacobs seems Seigneurial System seigneurial tenure sell settlement settlers seventeenth century siècle social Sorel and St St Denis St Lawrence St Ours seigneurie supply surplus tended Théophile tithe wheat widow XVIIIe
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