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Backwoods consumers and homespun capitalists : the rise of a market culture in eastern Canada /
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This newly created economy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : from "market" to markets : new trends in rural economic and social history
- People on the move : migrations and networks
- Principal men
- A connective enterprise : Madawaska Lumbering
- Sawmills, gristmills, and lumber manufacture
- General stores : capitalism's beachheads or local traffic controllers?
- A tale of two markets : frontier farming
- A hierarchy of farmers : Saint John Valley agriculture
- The homespun paradox : domestic cloth production and the farm economy
- Consumption and the "world of goods"
- Conclusion : domesticating the economy, commercializing the household.