Title A commerce of taste : church architecture in Canada, 1867-1914 / Barry Magrill

Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's Unioversity Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 216 pages :) : illustrations Series McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 56 McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 56. Contents The Rise of Commercial Society in Pre-Confederation Canada -- Economy and Religion from the Maritimes to Upper Canada -- Selling Ecclesiology as Identity in the Dominion of Canada -- Property Ownership and Church-Building: The Financial Structure of Churches in Ontario -- The Spread of Empire in Western Canada: Railway, Religion, and Church-Building -- An Unfinished Business of Western Expansion -- The Influence of US Artistic, Cultural, and Economic Capital -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Biographies of Pattern Book Authors Summary How books of church drawings marketed taste and status alongside social change Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Gothic revival (Architecture) -- Canada Pattern books -- Great Britain Religious architecture -- Canada ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious. Economic history Gothic revival (Architecture) Pattern books Religious architecture Social conditions SUBJECT Canada -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019302 Canada -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019354 Subject Canada Great Britain Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773587007 0773587004

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