Peasant, Lord, and Merchant - Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840

By Allan Greer

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 through 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.

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Details:

304 Pages
6 x 9"
Published by University of Toronto Press, 1985
ISBN 9780802069306 (paperback)