Tenants in Time
Family Strategies, Land, and Liberalism in Upper Canada, 1799-1871
1st Edition
Published on 4. November 2008
400 pages
978-0-7735-7513-4 (ISBN)
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Life as a tenant farmer in a society where ownership was revered but tenancy was of vital importance.
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Catharine Anne Wilson
Tenants in Time
Family Strategies, Land, and Liberalism in Upper Canada, 1799-1871
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11/2008
McGill-Queen's University Press
€147.07
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Wilson Catharine Anne:
Catharine Anne Wilson, FRSC, is the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professor in Rural History at the University of Guelph and founder and director of the Rural Diary Archive website.Catharine Anne Wilson is professor of history, University of Guelph, and the author of the award-winning works A New Lease on Life and Reciprocal Work Bees and the Meaning of Neighbourhood.
Catharine Anne Wilson, FRSC, is the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professor in Rural History at the University of Guelph and founder and director of the Rural Diary Archive website.Catharine Anne Wilson is professor of history, University of Guelph, and the author of the award-winning works A New Lease on Life and Reciprocal Work Bees and the Meaning of Neighbourhood.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Maps and Tables
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES AND IDEOLOGIES
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Ideology of Landholding
- PART TWO: TENANTS AND THEIR LIVES
- 3 Tenancy and Tenants
- 4 Their Landlords and the Landlord-Tenant Relationship
- 5 Their Rent
- 6 Their Lives within a Legal Framework: Distraint and Eviction
- 7 Their Legal and Customary Rights
- 8 Their Farms, Families, and Agricultural Practices
- 9 Their Aspirations, Successes, and Failures
- Conclusion
- APPENDICES
- A: Note on the Database and Sources
- B: Statistical Tables
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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