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Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists : The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada
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ISBN: 9780802093172 0802093175 1487521480 1442687398 9781442687394 1442691883 9781442691889 9781487521486 Year: 2017 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This newly created economy was visibly part of the Atlantic capitalist system yet different in several major ways.In Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists, Beatrice Craig examines and describes this economy from its origins in the native fur trade, the growth of exportable wheat, the selling of food to new settlers, and of ton timbre to Britain. Craig vividly portrays the role of wives who sold homespun fabric and clothing to farmers, loggers, and river drivers, helping to bolster the community. The construction of saw, grist, and carding mills, and the establishment of stores, boarding houses, and taverns are all viewed as steps in the development of what the author calls "homespun capitalists." The territory also participated in the Atlantic economy as a consumer of Canadian, British, European, west and east Indian and American goods. This case study offers a unique examination of the emergence of capitalism and of a consumer society in a small, relatively remote community in the backwoods of New Brunswick.

Transmettre, hériter, succéder : La reproduction familiale en milieu rural, France-Québec, xviiie-xxe siècles
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ISBN: 2909604004 272970437X 2729710302 9782729704377 9782909604008 Year: 2019 Publisher: Lyon : Presses universitaires de Lyon,

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Transmettre, hériter, succéder, autant de termes désignant la passation des biens, des pouvoirs et des responsabilités d'une génération à l'autre et, en même temps, l'acceptation par les héritiers du destin fixé par la coutume et la loi. Moment délicat en particulier pour les exploitations agricoles. Qui sera le ou les successeurs ? Qui sera le ou les héritiers ? Quand et comment cette désignation et cette transmission s'effectuent ? Quel est le sort des exclus de la succession ? Autant de questions importantes pour qui s'intéresse au passé mais aussi au présent des sociétés paysannes. Cet ouvrage rend compte des recherches les plus récentes concernant les modes de reproduction de la famille rurale en contexte d'urbanisation en France et au Québec du xviiie - xxe siècles. Il rassemble les actes d'un colloque international qui s'est tenu sur ce thème à Veyrier-du-Lac, en 1991.

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