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.
- ISBN10 0802025595
- ISBN13 9780802025593
- Publish Date December 1985 (first published 1 January 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 May 1999
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint University of Toronto Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English