How Agriculture Made Canada
Farming in the Nineteenth Century
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 1. Oktober 2012
312 Seiten
978-0-7735-8792-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
An original and textured analysis of how agricultural developments in Quebec and Ontario had a significant and direct impact on rural settlement in the Prairies.
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Person
Russell Peter A.:
Peter A. Russell is associate professor of history at UBC Okanagan and the author of Attitudes to Social Structure and Mobility in Upper Canada: "Here We are Laird Ourselves".Peter A. Russell is associate professor of history at UBC Okanagan and the author of Attitudes to Social Structure and Mobility in Upper Canada: "Here We are Laird Ourselves".
Peter A. Russell is associate professor of history at UBC Okanagan and the author of Attitudes to Social Structure and Mobility in Upper Canada: "Here We are Laird Ourselves".Peter A. Russell is associate professor of history at UBC Okanagan and the author of Attitudes to Social Structure and Mobility in Upper Canada: "Here We are Laird Ourselves".
Inhalt
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Agricultural Crises in the Canadas in the Nineteenth Century
- 1 Farm Families and Markets - Peasants, Pioneers, and Profit Maximizers
- 2 Quebec: An Agricultural Crisis and Its Critics
- 3 Comparisons of Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario
- 4 The Staples Thesis Expounded, Critiqued, and Modified
- 5 Gagan and the "Critical Years" in Canada West: A Second Agricultural Crisis?
- 6 Land-Hungry Nationalisms on the Prairies
- 7 Railways and Homesteading on the Prairies: Sharing the Public Lands
- 8 Native Farming on the Prairies
- 9 Prairie Agriculture's Historiographic Debates
- Conclusion: What Historiographic Debates Can Tell Us
- Notes
- Other Sources Used
- Index
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