Limits of Rural Capitalism

by Kenneth M. Sylvester

"The Limits of Rural Capitalism" is an important study of the social and economic development of the Municipality of Montcalm, a largely French-Canadian community in southern Manitoba. It 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. Using a novel combination of demographic, financial, and legal evidence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802048080
• ISBN13: 9780802048080
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"