Uniting in Measures of Common Good
The Construction of Liberal Identities in Central Canada
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2008
- Category
- General, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773534230
- Publish Date
- Oct 2008
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773578616
- Publish Date
- Oct 2008
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
Ferry examines a wide selection of voluntary societies - mechanics' institutes, mutual benefit organizations, agricultural associations, temperance societies, and literary and scientific associations. He reinterprets the history of these organizations in terms of their own internal tensions over liberal doctrines and the effect of social, cultural, and economic change and compares the effects of liberalism on rural and urban associations and on societies in both English and French Canada.
About the author
Darren Ferry teaches history at McMaster University and Nipissing University.