Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840 (Revised)

Title: Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840 (Revised)
Author: Allan Greer
I: 1709466
ISBN: 9780802065780
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1985
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 2nd Revised ed.
Number of Pages: 304
Section: History | Canada | General
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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.