Canada's Victorian oil town : the transformation of Petrolia from a resource town into a Victorian community /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2006
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : colonization, culture, and the making of Canada's Victorian oil town
- 1. "Oil mania" : colonial land policy, land speculators, and settlement in Enniskillen Township, 1830s-60s
- 2. "Oil smellers" and "professors" : science, colonization, and the oil boom in mid-nineteenth-century Enniskillen Township
- 3. The petrolia discovery and the making of an oil resource community
- 4. A respectable Victorian town : public space, voluntary associations, and the creation of a culture of refined sociability
- 5. "Some adventures of the boys" : Enniskillen Township's "foreign drillers," imperialism, and colonial discourse
- 6. "Canada's Victorian oil town" : history, public memory, and community.