A sense of their duty : middle-class formation in Victorian Ontario towns /
"Using the towns of Galt and Goderich as case studies, Andrew Holman shows how population growth, industrial change, and the expansion of government contributed to profound changes to Ontario's social structure between the 1850s and the 1890s with an identifiable and self-identified middle...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2000.
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Colección: | CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Using the towns of Galt and Goderich as case studies, Andrew Holman shows how population growth, industrial change, and the expansion of government contributed to profound changes to Ontario's social structure between the 1850s and the 1890s with an identifiable and self-identified middle class emerging between the idle rich and the working class. Businessmen, professionals, and white-collar workers developed a new sense of authority that extended beyond the workplace, and local electors, breadwinners, and members of voluntary associations and reform societies set middle class standards of behavior that enjoyed currency and relevance throughout the twentieth century."--Jacket |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : illustrations, map |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-238) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780773568082 0773568085 077352083X 9780773520837 1282858300 9781282858305 9786612858307 6612858303 |