The Spirit of Industry and Improvement by Daniel Samson

The Spirit of Industry and Improvement by Daniel Samson

The notion of improvement permeated social and political discourse in colonial Canadian society. From agriculture to building roads and mills to defining correct habits and behaviour, Nova Scotia's improvers embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government. Daniel Samson moves Nova Scotia and rural Canada from the colonial margins to the heart of a modernizing society, showing how the countryside functioned as a centre of change and innovation. He connects a fascinating spectrum of sites, actors, and strategies and links settlement, farm-building, rural market formation, and early industrialization to the heterogeneous strategies of families and state actors, the rural poor, and rural elites. The Spirit of Industry and Improvement presents the first-ever overview of rural colonial Nova Scotia and provides compelling insights into the formation of modern liberal practices of government and self-government in British North America.

"The Spirit of Industry and Improvement is a major contribution to rural history and to the historiography of British North America" Rusty Bittermann, St. Thomas University "A detailed, refreshing, coherent, and meaningful overview of change in nineteenth-century rural Nova Scotia." Ruth Sandwell, University of Toronto

Daniel Samson is associate professor, history, Brock University.

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ISBN 13	9780773533547
ISBN 10	0773533540
Title	The Spirit of Industry and Improvement
Author	Daniel Samson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McGill-Queen's University Press
Year published	2008-04-17
Number of pages	448
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