How Different It Was (eBook)

Canadians at the Time of Confederation

Michael J. Goodspeed (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
192 Seiten
Dundurn Press (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3696-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Upending the portrait of the Victorian age as a time of stuffy morals and manners, How Different It Was reveals the chaotic years of early Canada. The lifestyles and daily struggles, the controversies and social values, the institutions and tensions in a tumultuous society of immigrants, aboriginals, farmers, workers, and officials.

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An enthralling exploration of the lifestyles, ideas, habits, organizations, customs, fears, and aspirations of Canadians in the age of Confederation.Too often we think of Victorian Canada as dull. We imagine our ancestors as sepia-tinged, dour, excruciatingly respectable figures sitting stiffly in over-decorated parlours. In How Different It Was, Michael J. Goodspeed changes all that, bringing to life the tumult and enthusiasm of ordinary and unconventional Canadians - from across the country and every walk of life - in an extraordinary time.The political manoeuvring and power struggles of the decades when Canada was emerging as a nation are well known, but we are less familiar with the lives and circumstances of everyday Canadians in the Confederation era. How Different It Was vividly brings to life the lifestyles, attitudes, habits, and mindset of a colourful generation of Canadians who were, in so many ways, so different from our own.

Autor

Michael J. Goodspeed is a historian and novelist. In addition to a successful writing career he has been an infantry officer and a manager in high-tech firms. He has lived and worked across Canada and on several continents. He lives on an acreage in Harrowsmith, Ontario.

Inhalt

Introduction
Chapter One Background to a New Nation
Chapter Two The Victorian Outlook
Chapter Three Turmoil in the Rest of the World
Chapter Four The Regions and First Peoples: Quebec
Chapter Five The Regions and First Peoples: Ontario
Chapter Six The Regions and First Peoples: The Atlantic Provinces
Chapter Seven The Regions and First Peoples: The West and the North
Chapter Eight The Immigrant Peoples: The Irish
Chapter Nine The Immigrant Peoples: The Scots
Chapter Ten The Immigrant Peoples: The French
Chapter Eleven The Immigrant Peoples: The English
Chapter Tweleve The Immigrant Peoples: The Era’s New Minorities
Chapter Thirteen Rural Life
Chapter Fourteen Urban Life
Chapter Fifteen Domestic Life
Chapter Sixteen Attitudes and Beliefs
Chapter Seventeen Institutional Life
Chapter Eighteen Education, Media, and the Popular Arts
Chapter Nineteen Characteristics and Identity
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2017
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Victorian Era
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3696-6 / 1459736966
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3696-2 / 9781459736962