Power and subsistence : the political economy of grain in new France
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書誌事項
Power and subsistence : the political economy of grain in new France
（McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series, 3）
McGill-Queen's University Press, c2018
- : softcover
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Le partage des subsistances au Canada sous le régime français
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"Published originally under the title Le partage des subsistances au Canada sous le régime français, c1994 by Éditions du Boréal"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [239]-252
Includes index
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内容説明
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 Dechene shows that unlike in 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, Dechene 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.
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