The Limits of Rural Capitalism : Family, Culture, and Markets in Montcalm, Manitoba, 1870-1940 /

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"The Limits of Rural Capitalism" is an important study of the social and economic development of the Municipality of Montcalm, a largely French-Canadian community in southern Manitoba. It challenges the view in prairie historiography that agriculture had commercialized before the west was...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sylvester, Kenneth Michael, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wirtschaft
Social conditions
Family farms.
Economic history.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Exploitations agricoles familiales > Manitoba > Montcalm > Histoire.
Family farms > Manitoba > Montcalm > History.
Montcalm (Man.)
Manitoba > Montcalm.
Montcalm (Man.) > Conditions sociales.
Montcalm (Man.) > Conditions economiques.
Montcalm (Man.) > Histoire.
Montcalm (Man.) > Social conditions.
Montcalm (Man.) > Economic conditions.
Montcalm (Man.) > History.
Livres numeriques.
History.
e-books.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps, Figures, and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Shared Origins of Settlement
  • 2. Making Families and Generations
  • 3. The Economy of Family Farms
  • 4. Credit, Commerce, and Market Change
  • 5. Ending and Making Local Culture
  • 6. Continuity, Inheritance, and Inequality
  • 7. Leaving Rural Life
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: A Note on Sources
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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