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.
The Seigneurial System in Early Canada
Author: Richard Colebrook Harris
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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
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 Seigneurial System in Early Canada
Author: Cole Harris
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773504349
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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: 9780773504349
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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:A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY. REV.ED.
Author: Richard Colebrook Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seignioral Tenure-Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seignioral Tenure-Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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A Geography of the Seigneurial System in Canada During the French Regime
The Seigneurial System in Early French Canada and the Detroit River Region : a Report to the Essex-Kent Regional Tourist Council
Author: Charles Trevor Greenwood
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860
Author: H. Clare Pentland
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9780888623782
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
First published in 1981, H. Clare Pentland's Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860 is a seminal work that analyzes the shaping of the Canadian working class and the evolution of capitalism in Canada. Pentland's work focuses on the relationship between the availability and nature of labour and the development of industry. From that idea flows an absorbing account that explores patterns of labour, patterns of immigration and the growth of industry. Pentland writes of the massive influx of immigrants to Canada in the 1800s--taciturn highland Scots who eked out a meagre living on subsistence farms; shrewd lowlanders who formed the basis of an emerging business class; skilled English artisans who brought their trades and their politics to the new land; Americans who took to farming; and Irish who came in droves, fleeing the poverty and savagery of an Ireland under the heel of Britain. Labour and Capital in Canada is a classic study of the peoples who built Canada in the first two centuries of European occupation.
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9780888623782
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
First published in 1981, H. Clare Pentland's Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860 is a seminal work that analyzes the shaping of the Canadian working class and the evolution of capitalism in Canada. Pentland's work focuses on the relationship between the availability and nature of labour and the development of industry. From that idea flows an absorbing account that explores patterns of labour, patterns of immigration and the growth of industry. Pentland writes of the massive influx of immigrants to Canada in the 1800s--taciturn highland Scots who eked out a meagre living on subsistence farms; shrewd lowlanders who formed the basis of an emerging business class; skilled English artisans who brought their trades and their politics to the new land; Americans who took to farming; and Irish who came in droves, fleeing the poverty and savagery of an Ireland under the heel of Britain. Labour and Capital in Canada is a classic study of the peoples who built Canada in the first two centuries of European occupation.
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