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Fresh from the printer this week: two new books from the Studies on the History of Quebec Series that look at how people lived in 19th-century Montreal.
BEYOND BRUTAL PASSIONS: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal
By Mary Anne Poutanen
A social history exploring the intersections between those accused of prostitution, their neighbours, families, clients, and criminal justice.
During a time of significant demographic, geographic, and social transition, many women in early nineteenth-century Montreal turned to prostitution and brothel-keeping to feed, clothe, protect, and house themselves and their families. Beyond Brutal Passions is a close study of the women who were accused of marketing sex, their economic and social susceptibilities, and the strategies they employed to resist authority and assert their own agency.
Referencing newspapers, parish registers, census returns, coroners’ reports, city directories, documents of Catholic and Protestant institutions, police books, and court records, Mary Anne Poutanen reveals how these women confronted limited alternatives and how they fought against established authority in the pursuit of their livelihoods. Read more >
WHY DID WE CHOOSE TO INDUSTRIALIZE?: Montreal, 1819-1849
By Robert C.H. Sweeny
A new analysis of the factors and human choice at the heart of industrialization and social change.
In mid-nineteenth-century Montreal, as in other early industrializing societies, change occurred as a result of the choices people made when faced with unprecedented opportunities and constraints.
Montreal was the first colonial city to industrialize. Its overlapping French and English legal traditions mean that people’s actions were exceptionally well documented for a North American city. Robert Sweeny’s reading of sources like city directories, ordinance surveys, monetary protests, and apprenticeship contracts leads him to develop important critiques of both mainstream and progressive historiography. Read more >
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