Experts in: Rural areas
DESSUREAULT, Christian
Professeur honoraire
- Economics
- Families
- Social history
- Rural areas
- Globalization
- New France
- 18th century
- 19th century
- Canada (Québec)
I devoted the early years of my career to studying the seigniorial regime in Canada, the rural economy, farming families' material lives, social structures, and the family and family networks in rural Quebec in the 18th and 19th centuries. In recent years, in co-operation with other scholars, I have been pursuing research into local institutions, including parish fabriques, sedentary militias and school syndics, so as to better understand the ways in which elites were recruited and renewed in the pre-capitalist Quebec countryside.