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Author Craig, Béatrice.

Title Backwoods consumers and homespun capitalists : the rise of a market culture in eastern Canada / Béatrice Craig.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2010.
©2009
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-342) and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Rural development -- New Brunswick -- Madawaska (County) -- History -- 19th century.
Rural development.
New Brunswick -- Madawaska (County)
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Capitalism -- New Brunswick -- History -- 19th century.
Capitalism.
New Brunswick.
Madawaska (N.B. : County) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
New Brunswick -- Rural conditions -- History -- 19th century.
Rural conditions.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Craig, Béatrice. Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists : The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9780802093172
ISBN 9781442687394 (electronic book)
1442687398 (electronic book)
9780802093172
0802093175

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