Nationalism, Capitalism, and Colonization in Nineteenth-Century Quebec: The Upper St Francis District

by J.I. Little

The settlements, economically based on lumber alone, were locked into poverty and dependency by Anglophone-monopoly control of the spruce forests. J.I. Little examines the ultimate failure of the British and Quebec settlement projects and argues that the stranglehold of the monopolies was broken only by the belated extension of the rail network into the Upper St Francis district. Canadians have only recently begun to question their model of company-leased...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773506993
• ISBN13: 9780773506992
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 9.3"