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- W2078165380 abstract "Included among the numerous reforms implemented by the governing elite of Lower Canada during the 1840s were the establishment of a public school system and municipal government, both ofwhich were to be supported by property taxes. These initiatives precipitated more than a decade of popular unrest, which reached its climax in 1850, a year marked by riots, arson, charivaris, and other forms of collective violence. This study analyzes the guerre des eteignoirs, as this period of resistance came to be known, particularly as it played out in the most affected counties of Nicolet and Yamaska in the district of Trois-Rivieres. It finds that new political opportunities at both the local and provincial level caused tension and competition among the rural elite, leading many wealthy landowners to resist the state’s initiatives for both economicand political reasons. The village bourgeoisie, on the other hand, generally supported the new schooland municipal institutions, seeing them as the means to achieve cultural and political leverage. The habitants were eteignoirs who criticized the school reforms primarily because of the hardships new taxes would impose, but also because the reforms undermined local control of schools. A major finding of this paper, however, is that habitant resistance to school laws did not signify that they opposed education itself; in fact, they, unlike their elite allies, demonstrated a consistent desire for public schooling throughout this time period. Abstract: Parmi les nombreuses reformes mises en oeuvre par ľelite gouvernante du Bas-Canada durant les annees 1840 se trouvait ľetablissement ďun systeme ďecoles publiques et de gouvernements municipaux, les deux initiatives devant etre soutenues par ľimpotfoncier. Ces mesures declencherent plus ďune decenniede soulevements populaires qui atteignirent leur paroxysme en 1850, une annee marquee par des emeutes, des incendies criminels, des charivaris et ďautres formes de violence collective. Cette etude se penche sur la Guerre des eteignoirs, comme on en vint a connaitre cette periode de resistance, et en particulier sur son deroulement dans les comtes les plus affectes de Nicolet et de Yamaska dans le district de Trois-Rivieres. Ľetude revele que de nouvelles ouvertures politiques autant au niveau local que provincial ont cree de la tension et de la competition parmi ľelite rurale et firent que bien des proprietaires terriens fortunes s’opposerent aux nouvelles mesures gouvernementales pour des raisons aussi bien politiques qưeconomiques. Enrevanche, la bourgeoisie villageoise etait generalement en faveur des nouvelles institutions ecolieres et municipales, y voyant des moyens ďaugmenter son influence culturelle et politique. Les habitants etaient des eteignoirs qui critiquaient la reforme des ecoles surtout a cause du fardeau que representaient les nouvelles taxes, mais aussi parce que la reforme constituait un affaiblissement du controle local des ecoles. Une decouverte majeure de cet article, toutefois, est que la resistance paysanne aux lois scolaires ne signifiait pas qưelle etait opposee a ľeducation; en fait, les paysans, a la difference de leurs allies qui formaient ľelite, manifesterent leur volonte ferme de voir une education publique a cette epoque." @default.
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- W2078165380 title "‘Rage against the Dying of the Light’: Interpreting the Guerre des Éteignoirs" @default.
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