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Pre-industrial Canada, 1760-1849
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Authors/contributors
- Cross, Michael S. (Editor)
- Kealey, Gregory S. (Editor)
Title
Pre-industrial Canada, 1760-1849
Abstract
...This volume presents a selection of scholarly articles designed to introduce the student to currents of social change and development in Canada from 1760 to 1849. With contributions by such respected academic writers as Harold Adams Innis, Judith Fingard, and Sylvia Van Kirk, it provides valuable insights into the role of the working class, violence and protest, class conflicts, and the economic structure of a newly developing nation. --Publisher's description
Series
Readings in Canadian social history
Volume
2
# of Volumes
5
Place
Toronto
Publisher
McClelland and Stewart
Date
1985
# of Pages
211 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-7710-2461-0
Extra
OCLC: 806289951
Notes
Contents: I. Economic overview. The importance of staple product / Harold Adams Innis -- The rural economic crisis in Lower Canada / Fernand Ouellet. II. Social structure. The poor in winter: Seasonality and society in pre-industrial Canada / Judith Fingard -- Sermon literature and Canadian intellectual history / S. F. Wise. III. The Working class. Class conflict on the canals of Upper Canada in the 1840s / Ruth Bleasdale. IV. Violence and protest. The necessary failure / Michael S. Cross. V. Social control. Politics, schools, and social change in Upper Canada / Susan E. Houston. VI. Women. “Women in Between”: Women in fur trade society in Western Canada / Sylvia Van Kirk.
Citation
Cross, M. S., & Kealey, G. S. (Eds.). (1985). Pre-industrial Canada, 1760-1849 (Vol. 2). McClelland and Stewart. https://archive.org/details/preindustrialcan00cros/mode/2up
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