Economic and social history of Quebec, 1760-1850 : structures and conjonctures

Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Tables, Maps, and Graphs Abbreviations Preface to the English Translation Preface to the French Edition Foreword to the French Edition INTRODUCTION I. Geography , Economy, and Society II. The Frontiers After 1760 III . The Imperial Structures IV. The American Context PART ONE: EXPANSION THROUGH FURS AND WHEAT. 1760-1815 1. A Tentative Rational Chronology I. The Reversal of the Major Tendency II. The Breakdown into Periods 2. The Crisis of the Conquest, 1760-1764 I. The Origins of the Crisis II. The British Leaders of the Struggle Against Inflation III. Monetary Policy Appendix : The System of Parallel Standards 3. The Difficulties of Reconstruction, 1765-1774 I. The Montreal - Albany Rivalry in the Fur Trade II. Progress and Malaise in Agriculture III . The Fisheries IV. The Timber Industry and New Initiatives V. The Social and Political Context 4. The Economy of Quebec during the American Revolution, 1775-1783 I. The Decline of Albany and the Supremacy of Montreal II. Agriculture and the Supplying of the Army III. Difficulties in the Fisheries and the Forest Industry IV. Public Opinion 5. Post - War Problems and Orientations, 1783 - 1792 I. Post - War Difficulties II. The Commercial System of the St. Lawrence III. The Demographic Balance is Modified IV. Social Tensions and Political Reforms 6. Prosperity through Furs and Wheat, 1793 -1802 I. Agriculture and the Imperial Market II. Demographic Growth III. The Apogee of the Fur Trade IV. A Climate of Prosperity V. Prosperity, Social Peace, and Tendency towards Ideological Unanimity 7. Structural Changes, 1803 - 1812 I. The Staggering Rise in Prices: Role and Significance II. The Initial Decline of the Fur Trade III. The First Symptoms of a Crisis in Agriculture IV. The Growth of the Timber Trade V. Social Tensions, the Birth of Nationalism, the Political Crisis 8. The War of 1812 and Its Repercussions I. Difficulties in Furs and Timber II. Agriculture and Its Problems III. The Role of the Army “Bills” IV. Public Opinion during the War PART TWO: THE CRISIS IN THE ECONOMY OF QUEBEC. 1816-1851 9. A Tentative Rational Chronology 10. The Reversal of the Conjoncture and the Union Crisis, 1815-1823 I. The Agricultural Crisis and the Fall in Prices II. The Shifting of Production Centres: The Problem of Communications III. The Demographic Conjoncture and Colonization 11. The Reversal of the Conjoncture and the Union Crisis, 1815 -1823, Continued I. Recovery in the Timber Industry and Depression in Shipbuilding II. The Fisheries in Difficulty III. The Creation of Credit Institutions IV. Overall Crisis in 1822: The Issue of Union 12. The Agricultural Crisis and the Decline of Imperial Solidarity, 1823-1836 I. Agricultural Prices II. Quebec’s Agriculture and Its Difficulties III. The Overpopulation of the Seigneuries IV. The Crisis of the Seigneurial Regime V. Agriculture in the Townships VI. The Role of Upper Canada and the Issue of Canals VII. The Decline of Imperial Solidarity Appendix: The Seigneurial Questionin Historiography 13. The British Regime Saved by Timber, 1823 -1836 I. The Conjoncture in the British Isles II. The Expansion of the Timber Industry III. Shipbuilding and the Potash Industry IV. The Overall Conjoncture Conclusion 14. The Failure of the Insurrectionary Movement, 1837-1839 I. The Conjoncture during the Revolutionary Period II. The Failure of the Insurrections III. Durham and His View of the Problems of Lower Canada 15. Quebec at the Time of the Reform, 1840 -1850 I. Trends in the Agriculture of Quebec II. Towards a Reform of the Seigneurial Regime III. Demographic Tensions and French - Canadian Emigration to the United States 16. Quebec at the Time of the Reform. 1840 - 1850. Continued I. The Timber Industry and the Decline of Preferential Traiffs II. Shipbuilding and Other Types of Industrial Activity III. The Resources of the West and the End of the Old Colonial System IV. The Resources of the West and the Revolution in Transportation V. Political Reform CONCLUSION: THE SLOWNESS OF SOCIO - ECONOMIC CHANGES AND THE ENDURING MENTALITIES OF THE “Ancien Regime” I. Changes and Challenges II. Stability and Growth in the Eighteenth Century III. The Hardening of Mentalities, 1802 - 1840 IV. Compromises and Partial Adaptations, 1840 - 1860 Postscript Notes Bibliography Graphs Index