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Power and subsistence : the political economy of grain in New France / Louise Dechêne ; translated by Peter Feldstein.
Lippincott Library HD9014 C32 D4213 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dechêne, Louise, 1928-2000, author.
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series ; 3.
- McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series ; 3
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Food supply--Canada--History.
- Food supply.
- Grain trade--Canada--History.
- Grain trade.
- Grain--Transportation--Canada--History.
- Grain.
- Emergency mass feeding--History.
- Emergency mass feeding.
- Food conservation--Canada--History.
- Food conservation.
- Famines--Canada--History.
- Famines.
- Grain--Transportation.
- History.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 258 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Grain Demand: An Overview p. 7
- 2 Local Grain Redistribution p. 14
- 3 Regulations p. 27
- 4 Grain Transportation to the City p. 41
- 5 The Grain Trade p. 51
- 6 Shortages and Controls, 1690-1744 p. 75
- 7 The King's Granaries p. 97
- 8 Grain during Wartime p. 112
- 9 Public Unrest and Official Discourse p. 128.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780773554900
- 0773554904
- 9780773554917
- 0773554912
- OCLC:
- 1077244129
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