Sylvester challenges the view in prairie historiography that agriculture had commercialized before the west was opened to settlement, and that ethnic communities alone resisted the market's potential.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.27/4
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-mb
- ISBN
- 0802048080 9781442681644
- LCCN
- F1064.5.M66
- LCCN Item number
- S95 2001eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 280 p., [12] p. of plates)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00602031 (OCoLC)288098312 (CaOOCEL)418115
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Maps, Figures, and Tables 8
- Acknowledgments 12
- Introduction 16
- 1. Shared Origins of Settlement 25
- 2. Making Families and Generations 42
- 3. The Economy of Family Farms 59
- 4. Credit, Commerce, and Market Change 79
- 5. Ending and Making Local Culture 113
- 6. Continuity, Inheritance, and Inequality 160
- 7. Leaving Rural Life 193
- Conclusion 216
- Appendix: A Note on Sources 222
- Notes 228
- Select Bibliography 274
- Illustration Credits 294
- Index 296
- A 296
- B 296
- C 297
- D 298
- E 298
- F 299
- G 299
- H 300
- I 300
- J 300
- K 301
- L 301
- M 301
- N 302
- O 302
- P 302
- Q 303
- R 303
- S 304
- T 304
- U 305
- V 305
- W 305
- Y 305
- Illustrations 130
