Tenants in time : family strategies, land, and liberalism in Upper Canada, 1799-1871 /
"The freeholding pioneer is a powerful image in settlement history, Tenants in Time tells a different story. Tenancy, though relegated to the periphery by the liberal idealization of ownership, was a common and vital part of the economy and society. Against a background of international land ag...
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Maps and Tables
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES AND IDEOLOGIES
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Ideology of Landholding
- PART TWO: TENANTS AND THEIR LIVES
- 3 Tenancy and Tenants
- 4 Their Landlords and the Landlord-Tenant Relationship
- 5 Their Rent
- 6 Their Lives within a Legal Framework: Distraint and Eviction
- 7 Their Legal and Customary Rights
- 8 Their Farms, Families, and Agricultural Practices
- 9 Their Aspirations, Successes, and Failures
- Conclusion
- APPENDICES
- A: Note on the Database and SourcesB: Statistical Tables
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- C
- D
- E
- F
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- I
- J
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