Peasant, Lord, and Merchant
Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840
Nonfiction, History, Americas, Canada
| Author: | Allan Greer | ISBN: | 9781442658431 |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division | Publication: | December 15, 1985 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Allan Greer |
| ISBN: | 9781442658431 |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division |
| Publication: | December 15, 1985 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
