The Seigneurial System In Early Canada
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Author | : Cole Harris |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1984-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773560998 |
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.
Author | : Richard Colebrook Harris |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Cole Harris |
Publisher | : Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press ; Québec : Les Presses de l'Université Laval |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Richard Colebrook Harris |
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Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : Cole Harris |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780773504349 |
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.
Author | : Richard Colebrook Harris |
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Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Seignioral Tenure-Canada |
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Author | : Cole Harris |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : Charles Trevor Greenwood |
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Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1963* |
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Author | : H. Clare Pentland |
Publisher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780888623782 |
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.
Author | : R. Cole Harris |
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Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Feudalism |
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