Geopolitics, State-Formation and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario

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dc.contributor.advisorLacher, Hannes P.
dc.creatorGheller, Frantz
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T15:22:09Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T15:22:09Z
dc.date.copyright2015-01-23
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T15:22:09Z
dc.degree.disciplinePolitical Science
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation challenges the prevailing periodization of Quebec and Ontario’s economic development in Canadian historiography by contrasting the specificity of capitalist social relations with the non-capitalist forms of social reproduction belonging to French Canadian peasants and Upper Canadian farmers in the colonial period. With a few notable exceptions, existing historical interpretations assume that capitalism was there, at least in embryo, from the colony’s very beginning in the guise of the fur trade, manufacturing, or a local bourgeoisie. By contrast, this thesis brings together, through a comparative perspective, different pieces of the interconnected histories of France, Britain, the United States, Ontario, and Quebec in order to show that capitalism did not arrive on the shores of the St. Lawrence River with the first settlers. The dissertation also brings together pieces of the uneven intra-regional histories of these regions, and provides a general reflection on how to systematically integrate the geopolitical dimension of social change into historical sociology, political economy, and comparative politics. As such, the question with which the thesis is concerned is not exclusively that of the transition to capitalism in Quebec or in Ontario, but more broadly the interrelated questions of state-formation and ‘late development’ in north-eastern North America. One of the main findings of the dissertation is that only with the development of industrial capitalism in the north-eastern United States were the conditions for the emergence of capital-intensive types of agriculture in rural areas of Quebec and Ontario put in place. American breakthroughs toward industrial capitalism irrevocably transformed the system-wide conditions under which subsequent agricultural evolution took place in neighbouring regions, generating a new geopolitical configuration in which customary peasant production continued to persist in Quebec alongside petty-commodity farmers in Upper Canada and the development of industrial capitalism in urban areas such as Montreal. These findings bring to the fore the need to directly address the ‘peasant question’ in order to understand the impact of the continued existence of a large peasantry on state-formation and the long-term economic development of Quebec during the period when industrial capitalism was emerging as a dominant feature of the North American economy.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30006
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectPolitical Science
dc.subjectCanadian history
dc.subjectAgriculture economics
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical science
dc.subject.keywordsInternational relations
dc.subject.keywordsHistorical sociology
dc.subject.keywordsAgrarian political economy
dc.subject.keywordsAgrarian change
dc.subject.keywordsPeasant question
dc.subject.keywordsAgrarian question
dc.subject.keywordsLate development
dc.subject.keywordsCapitalism
dc.subject.keywordsCapitalist agriculture
dc.subject.keywordsAgriculture
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian politics
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian history
dc.subject.keywordsAgriculture economics
dc.subject.keywordsTransition to capitalism
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical Marxism
dc.subject.keywordsSocial-property relations
dc.subject.keywordsAtlantic history
dc.subject.keywordsNew World
dc.subject.keywordsColonial state formation
dc.subject.keywordsColonialism
dc.subject.keywordsState formation
dc.subject.keywordsColony
dc.subject.keywordsNorth America
dc.subject.keywordsQuebec
dc.subject.keywordsOntario
dc.subject.keywordsFarmers
dc.subject.keywordsPeasants
dc.subject.keywordsComparison
dc.subject.keywordsComparative perspective
dc.subject.keywordsComparative methodology
dc.subject.keywordsComparative sociology
dc.subject.keywordsState
dc.subject.keywordsAbsolutism
dc.subject.keywordsFeudalism
dc.subject.keywordsAbsolutist state
dc.subject.keywordsCapital-intensive
dc.subject.keywordsPetty commodity production
dc.subject.keywordsPetty commodity producers
dc.subject.keywordsIndependent household production
dc.subject.keywordsIndependent household producers
dc.subject.keywordsStaple
dc.subject.keywordsFur trade
dc.subject.keywordsWheat
dc.subject.keywordsDairy
dc.subject.keywordsCapital
dc.subject.keywordsUpper Canada
dc.subject.keywordsLower Canada
dc.subject.keywordsNew France
dc.subject.keywordsFrench Canadians
dc.subject.keywordsSt Lawrence River
dc.subject.keywordsSt Lawrence Valley
dc.subject.keywordsGreat Lakes
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsCapitalist social relations
dc.subject.keywordsNon-capitalist social relations
dc.subject.keywordsSocioeconomic development
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian historiography
dc.subject.keywordsPeriodization
dc.subject.keywordsSettlers
dc.subject.keywordsSettlement
dc.subject.keywordsLand
dc.subject.keywordsLand tenure
dc.subject.keywordsProperty
dc.subject.keywordsRural areas
dc.subject.keywordsCountryside
dc.subject.keywordsIndustrialization
dc.subject.keywordsIndustrial capitalism
dc.subject.keywordsAgricultural revolution
dc.subject.keywordsSubsistence
dc.subject.keywordsCustoms
dc.subject.keywordsPeasantry
dc.subject.keywordsNorth American economy
dc.subject.keywordsMercantilism
dc.subject.keywordsCommercialization
dc.subject.keywordsCommerce
dc.subject.keywordsCulture
dc.subject.keywordsStrategy of reproduction
dc.subject.keywordsStrategies of reproduction
dc.subject.keywordsTerritorialization
dc.subject.keywordsFrontier
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian provinces
dc.subject.keywordsTrade
dc.subject.keywordsTerritory
dc.subject.keywordsRebellions
dc.subject.keywordsAmerican revolution
dc.subject.keywordsAmerican capitalism
dc.subject.keywordsUneven development
dc.subject.keywordsUneven and combined development
dc.subject.keywordsChurch
dc.subject.keywordsCatholic Church
dc.subject.keywordsImmigration
dc.subject.keywordsRural exodus
dc.subject.keywordsSeigneuries
dc.subject.keywordsSeigneurial regime
dc.subject.keywordsSeigneurial system
dc.subject.keywordsSociology
dc.subject.keywordsHistory
dc.subject.keywordsPolitics
dc.subject.keywordsClass struggle
dc.subject.keywordsSocial conflict
dc.subject.keywordsResistance
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical institutions
dc.subject.keywordsState forms
dc.subject.keywordsOpen-field system
dc.subject.keywordsAgrarian capitalism
dc.subject.keywordsImprovement
dc.subject.keywordsMarket dependence
dc.subject.keywordsMarket dependency
dc.subject.keywordsMarket
dc.subject.keywordsMeans of production
dc.subject.keywordsLabour
dc.subject.keywordsOffices
dc.subject.keywordsRuling class
dc.subject.keywordsFamilial reproduction
dc.subject.keywordsDivision of labour
dc.subject.keywordsTransition debate
dc.subject.keywordsGeopolitics
dc.subject.keywordsCapitalist production
dc.subject.keywordsMerchants
dc.subject.keywordsMerchant capital
dc.subject.keywordsPeasant society
dc.subject.keywordsImproved farming
dc.subject.keywordsSales system
dc.subject.keywordsAgricultural crisis
dc.titleGeopolitics, State-Formation and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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