Title Power and subsistence : the political economy of grain in New France / Louise Dechêne ; translated by Peter Feldstein

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages) Series McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series ; 3 McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series ; 3. Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Foreword to the English Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Grain Demand: An Overview; 2 Local Grain Redistribution; 3 Regulations; 4 Grain Transportation to the City; 5 The Grain Trade; 6 Shortages and Controls, 1690-1744; 7 The King's Granaries; 8 Grain during Wartime; 9 Public Unrest and Official Discourse; Conclusion; Appendices; Appendix A Note on Units of Measure; Appendix B Transportation Costs for Wheat and Flour within the Colony; Appendix C Annual Wheat Price Fluctuations in the Vicinity of Montreal, 1675-1759 Appendix D Procurement of Grain, Peas, Flour, Biscuit, and Bread by the King's Stores, 1732-47Appendix E Years between 1702 and 1760 in which Canada Imported Flour and Approximate Volume of these Imports; Appendix F Supply of Flour and Peas to the Île Royale and Martinique Garrisons by the Intendancy of Quebec, 1729-51 (in cwt); Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary "Subsistence crops - the grains and other food items necessary to a people's survival - were a central preoccupation of the early modern state. In New France, the principal crop in question was wheat, and its production, consumption, exchange, and regulation were matters to which the government devoted sustained attention. Power and Subsistence examines the official measures taken to regulate the grain economy in New France, the frequency and nature of state interventions in the system, and the responses these actions provoked. Drawing on social and political perspectives and methodologies, this book brings rural and agricultural history into conversation with colonial political economy. Louise Dechêne shows that unlike early eighteenth-century France, where the marketplace dominated and trade was transparent, the grain economy in New France was hypercentralized and government measures were increasingly harsh. Attentive to the conflicts arising between producers, merchants, consumers, and colonial administrators over the allocation of the harvest, Dechêne offers a revealing perspective on the operation of political power in a colonial setting. Lively, elegant, and wry, Power and Subsistence provides insight into the last era of French rule in North America - and, in part, how that era came to an end."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 11, 2018) Subject Food supply -- Canada -- History Grain trade -- Canada -- History Grain -- Transportation -- Canada -- History Emergency mass feeding -- History Food conservation -- Canada -- History Famines -- Canada -- History Food supply -- Québec (Province) -- History Grain trade -- Québec (Province) -- History Food conservation -- Québec (Province) -- History Famines -- Québec (Province) -- History Grain -- Transportation -- Québec (Province) -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. Economic history Emergency mass feeding Famines Food conservation Food supply Grain trade Grain -- Transportation SUBJECT Canada -- Economic conditions -- To 1763. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019301 Subject Québec Canada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Feldstein, Peter, 1962- translator. Translation of : Dechêne, Louise, 1928-2000. Partage des subsistances au Canada sous le régime français ISBN 9780773555983 0773555986 9780773555990 0773555994

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