TY - BOOK ID - 5438883 TI - Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists : The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada PY - 2017 SN - 9780802093172 0802093175 1487521480 1442687398 9781442687394 1442691883 9781442691889 9781487521486 PB - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Rural development KW - Capitalism KW - Développement rural KW - Capitalisme KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Madawaska (N.B. : County) KW - Madawaska (N.-B. : Comté) KW - Economic conditions KW - Conditions économiques KW - HISTORY KW - Canada / General KW - Business & Economics KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - Economic History KW - Canada KW - History & Archaeology KW - New Brunswick KW - Rural conditions KW - Développement rural KW - Madawaska (N.-B. : Comté) KW - Conditions économiques KW - Market economy KW - Community development, Rural KW - Development, Rural KW - Integrated rural development KW - Regional development KW - Rehabilitation, Rural KW - Rural community development KW - Rural economic development KW - Citizen participation KW - Social aspects KW - Nouveau-Brunswick KW - Madawaska Co., N.B. KW - Economics KW - Profit KW - Capital KW - Agriculture and state KW - Community development KW - Economic development KW - Regional planning KW - Rural conditions. KW - E-books KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5438883 AB - 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. ER -