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Author Russell, Peter A

Title How agriculture made Canada : farming in the nineteenth century / Peter A. Russell
Published Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 1
McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies ; 1
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Agriculture -- History -- 19th century
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Agriculture
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773587922
0773587926