Main entry:

Bernier, Gérald.

Title & Author:

The shaping of Québec politics and society : colonialism, power, and the transition to capitalism in the 19th century / Gérald Bernier, Daniel Salée.

Publication:

Washington, DC : C. Russak ; Bristol, PA : Sales Office, Taylor & Francis, ©1992.

Description:

xii, 170 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index.
Introduction. Historiography and the National Question. The Colonial Experience and the Analysis of Socioeconomic Change -- Ch. 1. Defining the Transition: The Analysis of Social Change. Historical Materialism and the Transition Debate. Methodological Dilemmas. Against Determinism and the "Economistic Fallacy" Toward a Relational Ontology. The Transition to Capitalism -- Ch. 2. Between Market and Industry: The Social Contours of Lower Canadian "Capitalism" British Colonial Policies and the Economic Ascendancy of Lower Canadian Merchants. Merchants and Industry. The Social Preponderance of Merchant Capital: Meaning and Implications. Merchants and Landownership. Seigneurial "Capitalism": Myth and Reality. The Freehold Tenure or Free and Common Soccage. The Creation of Monopolies. The British American Land Company -- Ch. 3. The Theory and Practice of Ancien Regime Domination. "Soyez soumis a tous ceux qui sont au-dessus de vous": The Social Theory of Inequality. Religion and the Definition of a Social Theory of Power. The Exercise of State Power. Orienting the Analysis. Who Ruled? Landownership and Access to Political Power. The Exercise of State Power. Putting Things in Perspective -- Ch. 4. A Discourse of Protest: The Patriotes Decade (1828-1838). The National Question Approach, or Putting One's Foot Into the Wrong Shoe. The Patriotes: From Social Movement to Political Party and to Revolutionary Movement. The Course of Events and the Patriote Party's Political Discourse: From Politics to Armed Confrontation. The Moderate Period: 1827 to Spring 1834. The Reformist Period: Spring 1834 to Early Fall 1837. The Radical Period: From Early Fall 1837 to Winter 1838. The Patriotes' Economic Discourse. Trade. Manufacturing and Industry. Banking. Agricultural Development and the Land Question -- Ch. 5. The Rebellions and Beyond. Explaining the Failure. The Social Persistence of Ancien Regime Elite. "Through a Glass, Darkly": The Reforms That Wouldn't Be.
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Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0844816973
9780844816975

Subject:

Capitalism Québec (Province) History 19th century.
Capitalisme Québec (Province) Histoire 19e siècle.
15.85 history of America.
Capitalism.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Kapitalisme.
Québec (Province) Politics and government 19th century.
Québec (Province) Social conditions 19th century.
Quebec (Province) Social conditions 19th century.
Québec (Province) Politique et gouvernement 19e siècle.
Québec.
Politics History, 1841-1867
Québec (Province)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Salée, Daniel.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 100359
Call No.: ID F1053.B49 CAN; ID:94-B1190
Status: Available