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The patriots and the people : the rebellion of 1837 in rural Lower Canada /
In looking closely into the actions, motives, and mentality of the rural plebeians who formed a majority of those involved in the insurrection, Allan Greer brings to light new causes for the revolutionary role of the normally peaceful French-Canadian peasant. By doing so he provides a social history...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ontario :
University of Toronto Press,
[1993]
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| Series: | Social history of Canada ;
49. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Rural society and the agrarian economy
- 3 Potatoes in a sack? Rural community life
- 4 The habitant and the state
- 5 The Patriot movement and the crisis of the colonial régime
- 6 Two nations warring
- 7 The queen is a whore!
- 8 Parish republics
- 9 The question of property
- 10 Unsparing force
- 11 Repression, resurgence, and final defeat.