In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This newly created economy was visibly part of the Atlantic capitalist system yet different in several major ways.
In Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists, B?atrice Craig examines and describes this economy from its origins in the native fur trade, the growth of exportable wheat, the selling of food...
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Bru...
