A sense of their duty [[electronic resource] ] : middle-class formation in Victorian Ontario towns / / Andrew C. Holman

• Autore: Holman Andrew C (Andrew Carl), <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages. : illustrations)
• Disciplina: 305.5/5/0971309034
• Soggetto topico: Middle class - Ontario - History - 19th century; Social values - Ontario; Classes moyennes - Ontario - Histoire - 19e siècle
• Soggetto geografico: Goderich (Ont. : Township) Social conditions 19th century; Galt (Cambridge, Ont.) Social conditions 19th century; Goderich (Ont.) Conditions sociales 19e siècle; Galt (Cambridge, Ont.) Conditions sociales 19e siècle
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-238) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables, Maps, and Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue: Approaching the Victorian Middle Class in Canadian History -- Work, Authority, and the Middle Class in Victorian Ontario -- Boosters, Bluster, and Bonding: Enterprise and Middle-Class Formation -- Honour and Authority: The Professional Middle Class -- “Getting There”: Situating White-Collar Workers -- Erecting a Moral Order, Developing Class Community -- Casting Society: Voluntary Organizations and the Development of Class Community -- A Community Concern: Victorian Temperance Reform -- Producing and Reproducing the Middle-Class “Self” -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: What did it mean to be middle class in late nineteenth-century Ontario? How did the members of the middle class define themselves? Though simple, these questions have escaped the attention of social historians in recent writing about Canada. The Victorian middle class, referred to as the backbone of economic change, the motor of political reform, and the source of one set of moral standards, has eluded systematic study. A Sense of Their Duty corrects this and reconstructs the identities that middle-class Victorians made for themselves in an era of economic change.
• Titolo autorizzato: A sense of their duty
• ISBN: 1-282-85830-0; 9786612858307; 0-7735-6808-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782074903321
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