Civilization : from enlightenment philosophy to Canadian history /

"Colonial Canada changed enormously between the 1760s and the 1860s, the Conquest and Confederation, but the idea of civilization seen to guide those transformations changed still more. A cosmopolitan and optimistic theory of history was written into the founding Canadian constitution as a chec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heaman, E. A. (Elsbeth A.), 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Temas:
1800-1899
Civilization, Modern > 19th century.
Enlightenment.
Civilisation > 19e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.
British colonies
Civilization
Civilization, Modern
Enlightenment
Canada > Civilization > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > America.
Canada > Civilisation > 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Amérique.
America
Canada
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Enlightenment, Self-Civilization, and Decivilization: Hume vs Franklin
  • "Am I Your Slave?": Gendering Civilization
  • Tory Civilization in the 1820s: The Darling Report
  • Liberal Civilization in the 1830s: The Durham Report
  • The Sociology of Civilization in the 1840s: The Bagot Report
  • Democratic Civilization in the 1850s: Joseph-Charles Taché and Political Voice
  • Constitutional Civilization in the 1860s: John A. Macdonald and Confederation
  • History's Civilization: Daniel Wilson and the End of History.

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