The Limits of Rural Capitalism : Family, Culture, and Markets in Montcalm, Manitoba, 1870-1940 /
"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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
2001.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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