Pour une approche comparative de l'étude des sociétés rurales
nord-américaines
Authors
Béatrice Craig
Abstract
Historians of LowerCanada, like the historians ofthe United States, usually assume
that the societies they are studying were exceptional. Numerous studies of Upper Canada,
Lower Canada and the northeastern United States suggest that the population of those
regions adopted similar strategies when confronted to similar problems. Historical
research would therefore benefit from an approach which would use the northeastern part
of the American continent, as opposed to the political units which compose it, as their
frame of reference.
