{"product_id":"power-and-subsistence-louise-dechzne-9780773554917","title":"Power and Subsistence: The Political Economy of Grain in New France","description":"\u003cp\u003eSubsistence crops - the grains and other food items necessary to a people's survival - were a central preoccupation of the early modern state. In New France, the principal crop in question was wheat, and its production, consumption, exchange, and regulation were matters to which the government devoted sustained attention. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePower and Subsistence \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the official measures taken to regulate the grain economy in New France, the frequency and nature of state interventions in the system, and the responses these actions provoked. Drawing on social and political perspectives and methodologies, this book brings rural and agricultural history into conversation with colonial political economy. Louise Dechêne shows that unlike in early eighteenth-century France, where the marketplace dominated and trade was transparent, the grain economy in New France was hypercentralized and government measures were increasingly harsh. Attentive to the conflicts arising between producers, merchants, consumers, and colonial administrators over the allocation of the harvest, Dechêne offers a revealing perspective on the operation of political power in a colonial setting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLively, elegant, and wry, \u003ci\u003ePower and Subsistence \u003c\/i\u003eprovides insight into the last era of French rule in North America - and, in part, how that era came to an end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louise Dechêne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0773554912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780773554917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Louise Dechêne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097304670463,"sku":"9780773554917","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/power-and-subsistence-louise-dechzne-9780773554917","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}