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Canadian intellectuals, the Tory tradition and the challenge of modernity, 1939-1970 /

"In this study, Philip Massolin looks at the forces of modernization that transformed Canada in the last century, and the intellectual conservatives who opposed them. At the turn of the twentieth century, Victorian society - agrarian, religious, characterized by a rigid set of philosophical and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Massolin, Philip A. (Philip Alphonse), 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Science and technique : the critique of the technological consciousness
  • The modernization of higher learning in Canada I
  • The modernization of higher learning in Canada II : academia after the war
  • Battling the Philistines : the quest for culture in post-war Canada
  • The world we have lost : conservatism and the revolutionary world
  • Epilogue : the demise of the conservative-nationalist vision and the triumph of modernity.