Uniting in Measures of Common Good: The Construction of Liberal Identities in Central Canada

Uniting in Measures of Common Good: The Construction of Liberal Identities in Central Canada
ISBN-10
0773578617
ISBN-13
9780773578616
Category
History
Pages
448
Language
English
Published
2008-10-29
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Author
Darren Ferry

Description

Ferry examines a wide selection of voluntary societies - mechanics' institutes, mutual benefit organizations, agricultural associations, temperance societies, and literary and scientific associations. He reinterprets the history of these organizations in terms of their own internal tensions over liberal doctrines and the effect of social, cultural, and economic change and compares the effects of liberalism on rural and urban associations and on societies in both English and French Canada.

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