Peasant, Lord, and Merchant : Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840.
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- 9781442627635
- 971.4/5102
- HN110.R53 G744 2002
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.
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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