No wheat crisis: trade liberalization and transportation innovation in Quebec during the 1830s and 1840s

Abstract In the first half of the nineteenth century, the wheat oriented agrarian economy of Lower Canada saw a rapid collapse in wheat production. These developments have been blamed on factors ranging from soil exhaustion to cultural conservatism and used to infer falling living standards in the c...

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Published in:European review of economic history 2023-11, Vol.27 (4), p.560-580
Main Authors: Geloso, Vincent, Plemmons, Alicia, Thomas, Andrew
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