The economic emergence of a New Europe? : the political economy of cooperation and competition in the 1990s / Grahame F. Thompson

• Record Nr.: UNINA990007334820403321
• Autore: Thompson, Grahame
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Aldershot : Elgar Edward, 1995
• ISBN: 1852785608
• Descrizione fisica: XI, 225 p. ; 25 cm
• Locazione: DTE
• Collocazione: XV M4 69
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456203003321
• Autore: Massolin Philip A (Philip Alphonse), <1967->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001; ©2001
• ISBN: 1-4426-7224-2; 9786612014314; 1-282-01431-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 971.06
• Soggetti: Conservatism - Canada - History - 20th century; Electronic books.; Canada Intellectual life 20th century; Canada Civilization 1945-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Science and Technique: The Critique of the Technological Consciousness -- 3. The Modernization of Higher Learning in Canada I -- 4. The Modernization of Higher Learning in Canada II: Academia after the War -- 5. Battling the Philistines: The Quest for Culture in Post-War Canada -- 6. The World We Have Lost: Conservatism and the Revolutionary World -- 7. Epilogue: The Demise of the Conservative-Nationalist Vision and the Triumph of Modernity -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this well-researched book, Philip Massolin takes a fascinating look at the forces of modernization that swept through English Canada, beginning at the turn of the twentieth century. Victorian values - agrarian, religious - and the adherence to a rigid set of philosophical and moral codes were being replaced with those intrinsic to the modern age: industrial, secular, scientific, and anti-intellectual. This work analyses the development of a modern consciousness through the eyes of the most fervent critics of modernity - adherents to the moral and value systems associated with Canada's tory tradition. The work and thought of social and moral critics Harold Innis, Donald Creighton, Vincent Massey, Hilda Neatby, George P. Grant, W.L. Morton, Northrop Frye, and Marshall McLuhan are considered for their views of modernization and for their strong opinions on the nature and implications of the modern age. These scholars shared concerns over the dire effects of modernity and the need to attune Canadians to the realities of the modern age. Whereas most Canadians were oblivious to the effects of modernization, these critics perceived something ominous: far from being a sign of true progress, modernization was a blight on cultural development. In spite of the efforts of these critics, Canada emerged as a fully modern nation by the 1970s. Because of the triumph of modernity, the toryism that the critics advocated ceased to be a defining feature of the nation's life. Modernization, in short, contributed to the passing of an intellectual tradition centuries in the making and rapidly led to the ideological underpinnings of today's modern Canada.

Beyond the tower [[electronic resource] ] : a history of East London / / John Marriott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457190803321
• Autore: Marriott John <1944->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-30377-9; 9786613303776; 0-300-17749-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 942.1/7
• Soggetti: Popular culture - England - London - History; Electronic books.; East End (London, England) History; London (England) History; East End (London, England) Social conditions; London (England) Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: O Thomas Cook -- chapter 1 The Parish of Stepney to 1700 -- chapter 2 Industrialization and the Spirit of Improvement, 1680-1800 -- chapter 3 The Culture and Politics of Dissent, 1700-1800 -- chapter 4 Modernization and its Discontents, 1800-1860 -- chapter 5 The Spectre of Cholera, 1830-1875 -- chapter 6 The Myth of Outcast London, 1800-1900 -- chapter 7 From Dissent to Respectability, 1820-1914 -- chapter 8 Migrants and Sweaters, 1860-1914 -- chapter 9 The Ascent of Labour, 1880-1920 -- chapter 10 Recession, Mass Culture and the Entrepreneurial Spirit, 1920-1939 -- chapter 11 Fascism and War, 1920-1945 -- chapter 12 Postwar Decline and the Rise of the Cosmopolis, 1945- -- Epilogue: The Promise of Regeneration? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, ; was the home to Shakespeare's first theater and to the early stirrings of a mass labor movement; it has also traditionally been seen as a place of darkness and despair, where Jack the Ripper committed his gruesome murders, and cholera and poverty stalked the Victorian streets.In this beautifully illustrated history of this iconic district, John Marriott draws on twenty-five years of research into the subject to present an authoritative and endlessly fascinating account. With the aid of copious maps, archive prints and photographs, and the words of East Londoners from seventeenth-century silk weavers to Cockneys during the Blitz, he explores the relationship between the East End and the rest of London, and challenges many of the myths that surround the area.