Author: Cole Harris
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This was the seigneurial system of land tenure, whose legal structure was transferred alsmot unaltered from France to the New World. Although the system was old and effete in seventeenth-century France, scholars have considered that it shaped much of the life of early Canada. Harris argues in this classic study, now available in paper for the first time, that such was not the case. If the seigneurial system were central to the development of early Canadian society, the patterns of settlement, land use, and trade in the colony would have borne the imprint of the system. Through inspection of such records as deeds of land concession and sale, statements of vassalage, and wills, Harris reconstructs the geography of Canada before the British conquest. This evidence leads to novel and interesting conclusions: that the seigneurie was not an important unit on the land and the seigneur was not a dominant figure in the life of the community. With remarkable clarity, Harris unfolds a detailed picture of the landscape of early Canada and of the people who created it. The reissue of this important volume will be welcomed by all interested in early European societies in North America.
Seigneurial System in Early Canada
Author: Cole Harris
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This was the seigneurial system of land tenure, whose legal structure was transferred alsmot unaltered from France to the New World. Although the system was old and effete in seventeenth-century France, scholars have considered that it shaped much of the life of early Canada. Harris argues in this classic study, now available in paper for the first time, that such was not the case. If the seigneurial system were central to the development of early Canadian society, the patterns of settlement, land use, and trade in the colony would have borne the imprint of the system. Through inspection of such records as deeds of land concession and sale, statements of vassalage, and wills, Harris reconstructs the geography of Canada before the British conquest. This evidence leads to novel and interesting conclusions: that the seigneurie was not an important unit on the land and the seigneur was not a dominant figure in the life of the community. With remarkable clarity, Harris unfolds a detailed picture of the landscape of early Canada and of the people who created it. The reissue of this important volume will be welcomed by all interested in early European societies in North America.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This was the seigneurial system of land tenure, whose legal structure was transferred alsmot unaltered from France to the New World. Although the system was old and effete in seventeenth-century France, scholars have considered that it shaped much of the life of early Canada. Harris argues in this classic study, now available in paper for the first time, that such was not the case. If the seigneurial system were central to the development of early Canadian society, the patterns of settlement, land use, and trade in the colony would have borne the imprint of the system. Through inspection of such records as deeds of land concession and sale, statements of vassalage, and wills, Harris reconstructs the geography of Canada before the British conquest. This evidence leads to novel and interesting conclusions: that the seigneurie was not an important unit on the land and the seigneur was not a dominant figure in the life of the community. With remarkable clarity, Harris unfolds a detailed picture of the landscape of early Canada and of the people who created it. The reissue of this important volume will be welcomed by all interested in early European societies in North America.
A Geography of the Seigneurial System in Canada During the French Regime
A Geography of the Seigneurial System in Canada During the French Regime
Author: R. Cole Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feudalism
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feudalism
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Geography of the Seigneurial System in Canada During the French Regime
A Geography of the Seigneurial System in Canada During the French Regime [microform]
Author: Harris, R. Cole
Publisher: Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Seigneurial System in Early Canada
Author: Cole Harris
Publisher: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press ; Québec : Les Presses de l'Université Laval
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press ; Québec : Les Presses de l'Université Laval
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Seigneurial System in Early Canada
Author: Cole Harris
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773504311
Category : Feudalism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
With its long thin fields and straggling rows of farmhouses stretching along either bank of the St Lawrence river for two hundred miles and more, the landscape of rural Canada toward the end of the French regime presented a distinctive charm and drew later writers to construct idyllic portraits of the social and legal system which, they believed, had shaped it.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773504311
Category : Feudalism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
With its long thin fields and straggling rows of farmhouses stretching along either bank of the St Lawrence river for two hundred miles and more, the landscape of rural Canada toward the end of the French regime presented a distinctive charm and drew later writers to construct idyllic portraits of the social and legal system which, they believed, had shaped it.
The seigneurial system in early Canada
Author: Richard Colebrook Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The Seigneurs of Old Canada
Author: William Bennett Munro
Publisher: Toronto ; Glasgow : Brook
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Feudal system of landholding, instituted in Canada by the French and its part in Canadian history.
Publisher: Toronto ; Glasgow : Brook
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Feudal system of landholding, instituted in Canada by the French and its part in Canadian history.