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Author Korneski, Kurt, 1975-

Title Race, nation, and reform ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s / Kurt Korneski
Published Lanham, Maryland ; Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages)
Contents Empire, Nation and City -- Charles W. Gordon and the Christian Democracy -- Minnie J.B. Campbell : Loyalism, Nation, and Empire -- Secular Settler Nationalism in the Politics of John W. Dafoe -- Francis M. Beynon, Progressivism, and the Pursuit of Order
Summary "During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labour leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism, prostitution, sweatshop conditions, inadequate educational facilities, and other 'social evils.' Although they represented an array of political positions and advocated a range of strategies to deal with what they deemed problems, historians have come to term this impulse 'urban reform' or the 'urban reform movement.' This book considers the history of reform ideology in Canada. It does so by considering four leading reformers living in what might be described as the most Canadian of Canadian cities, Winnipeg, Manitoba. While the book engages in discussions/debates surrounding the particular individuals it considers, its more general argument is that to understand the history of reform in Canada requires viewing reformers as simultaneously experiencing and responding to two basic phenomena simultaneously. It requires understanding them as confronting the polarizing tendencies, exploitation, and sometimes grinding poverty that was central to the economic order they (often unwittingly) helped to impose in northern North America. It also, however, requires seeing them as fundamentally shaped by the process and legacy of the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples, and the changing nature of Aboriginal-settler relations that were also central to the development of Canada"--Provided by publisher
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Subject Social reformers -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Biography
Social problems -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History
Social movements -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History
Indians of North America -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Social conditions
Ideology -- Social aspects -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History
Nationalism -- Social aspects -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Social conditions
Race relations
Nationalism -- Social aspects
Ideology -- Social aspects
Economic history
Indians of North America -- Social conditions
Social movements
Social problems
Social reformers
SUBJECT Winnipeg (Man.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Winnipeg (Man.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Winnipeg (Man.) -- Race relations -- History
Winnipeg (Man.) -- Economic conditions
Subject Manitoba -- Winnipeg
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021678142
ISBN 9781611478501
1611478502
9781611478501