| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 1
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McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Agricultural Crises in the Canadas in the Nineteenth Century -- Farm Families and Markets- Peasants, Pioneers, and Profit Maximizers -- Quebec: An Agricultural Crisis and Its Critics -- Comparisons of Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario -- The Staples Thesis Expounded, Critiqued, and Modified -- Gagan and the "Critical Years" in Canada West: A Second Agricultural Crisis? -- Land-Hungry Nationalisms on the Prairies -- Railways and Homesteading on the Prairies: Sharing the Public Lands -- Native Farming on the Prairies -- Prairie Agriculture's Historiographic Debates 168 96 190 -- Conclusion: What Historiographic Debates Can Tell Us. |
| Summary |
An original and textured analysis of how agricultural developments in Quebec and Ontario had a significant and direct impact on rural settlement in the Prairies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- History -- 19th century.
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Agriculture. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects. |
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Canada. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Russell, Peter A. How agriculture made Canada. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012 9780773540644 (OCoLC)793221992 |
| ISBN |
9780773587922 (electronic book) |
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0773587926 (electronic book) |
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9780773540644 |
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0773540644 |
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9780773540651 |
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0773540652 |
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