Land and society in early Canada and South Africa |
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Authors: | RCole Harris Leonard Guelke |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, University of British Columbia Canada;2. Department of Geography, University of Waterloo Canada |
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Abstract: | The rural societies of early Canada and South Africa overwhelmingly comprised independent families on their own land and, in comparison with their European antecedents, were strikingly egalitarian and homogeneous. The transformation and simplification of European society in early Canada and South Africa was not the result of fragmentation—the isolation of particular elements of the European whole in remote new settings. Rather, these two colonial societies were common products of the introduction of European assumptions about family and land into settings where land was cheap and markets for farm produce were poor. Taken together these factors are sufficient to explain the general character of rural society in early Canada and most of early South Africa. |
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