The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790-1862 by Daniel Samson
How elites, the poor, and the state made a modern world in nineteenth-century rural Nova Scotia
The Spirit of Industry and Improvement
The Spirit of Industry and Improvement
Summary
From agriculture to building roads and mills, Nova Scotians embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government. This title presents an overview of rural colonial Nova Scotia and provides insights into the formation of modern liberal practices of government and self-government in British North America.
The Spirit of Industry and Improvement Summary
The Spirit of Industry and Improvement Reviews
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
About Daniel Samson
Daniel Samson is associate professor, history, Brock University.
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The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790-1862 by Daniel Samson
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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