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1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) |
| Summary |
"During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labour leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism, prostitution, sweatshop conditions, inadequate educational facilities, and other 'social evils.' Although they represented an array of political positions and advocated a range of strategies to deal with what they deemed problems, historians have come to term this impulse 'urban reform' or the 'urban reform movement.' This book considers the history of reform ideology in Canada. It does so by considering four leading reformers living in what might be described as the most Canadian of Canadian cities, Winnipeg, Manitoba. While the book engages in discussions/debates surrounding the particular individuals it considers, its more general argument is that to understand the history of reform in Canada requires viewing reformers as simultaneously experiencing and responding to two basic phenomena simultaneously. It requires understanding them as confronting the polarizing tendencies, exploitation, and sometimes grinding poverty that was central to the economic order they (often unwittingly) helped to impose in northern North America. It also, however, requires seeing them as fundamentally shaped by the process and legacy of the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples, and the changing nature of Aboriginal-settler relations that were also central to the development of Canada"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Empire, Nation and City -- Charles W. Gordon and the Christian Democracy -- Minnie J.B. Campbell : Loyalism, Nation, and Empire -- Secular Settler Nationalism in the Politics of John W. Dafoe -- Francis M. Beynon, Progressivism, and the Pursuit of Order. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Winnipeg (Man.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Winnipeg (Man.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Social reformers -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Biography.
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Social problems -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History.
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Social movements -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Social conditions.
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Winnipeg (Man.) -- Race relations -- History.
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Ideology -- Social aspects -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History.
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Nationalism -- Social aspects -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History.
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Winnipeg (Man.) -- Economic conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Social conditions |
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Race relations |
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Nationalism -- Social aspects |
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Ideology -- Social aspects |
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Economic history |
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Indians of North America -- Social conditions |
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Social movements |
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Social problems |
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Social reformers |
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Manitoba -- Winnipeg https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwRVfjhGtVQ8gJkRQdRKd |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Race, nation, and reform ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s. Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2015] 9781611478495 (DLC) 2015009870 |
| ISBN |
9781611478501 (ebook) |
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1611478502 |
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9781611478501 (electronic) |
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9781611478495 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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