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Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists

The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada

Craig, Beatrice

Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists

Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists

The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada

Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists

 

"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England developed on the banks of the Upper Saint John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory.


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Beschrijving Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists

Craig examines and describes the local economy of the Madawaska Territory from its origins in the native fur trade, the growth of exportable wheat, the selling of food to new settlers, and of ton timbre to Britain.


ISBN
9780802093172
Pagina's
349
Verschenen
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Nederlands
Uitgever
Univ of Toronto Pr

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