Author: Bruce Curtis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442662492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec’s educational history extends the sophisticated method used in author Bruce Curtis’s double-award-winning Politics of Population. Drawing on a mass of archival material, the study shows that although attempts to govern Quebec by educating its population consumed huge amounts of public money, they had little impact on rural ignorance: while near-universal literacy reigned in New England by the 1820s, at best one in three French-speaking peasant men in Quebec could sign his name in the insurrectionary decade of the 1830s. Curtis documents educational conditions on the ground, but also shows how imperial attempts to govern a tumultuous colony propelled the early development of Canadian social science. He provides a revisionist account of the pioneering investigations of Lord Gosford and Lord Durham.
Ruling by Schooling Quebec
Author: Bruce Curtis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442662492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec’s educational history extends the sophisticated method used in author Bruce Curtis’s double-award-winning Politics of Population. Drawing on a mass of archival material, the study shows that although attempts to govern Quebec by educating its population consumed huge amounts of public money, they had little impact on rural ignorance: while near-universal literacy reigned in New England by the 1820s, at best one in three French-speaking peasant men in Quebec could sign his name in the insurrectionary decade of the 1830s. Curtis documents educational conditions on the ground, but also shows how imperial attempts to govern a tumultuous colony propelled the early development of Canadian social science. He provides a revisionist account of the pioneering investigations of Lord Gosford and Lord Durham.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442662492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec’s educational history extends the sophisticated method used in author Bruce Curtis’s double-award-winning Politics of Population. Drawing on a mass of archival material, the study shows that although attempts to govern Quebec by educating its population consumed huge amounts of public money, they had little impact on rural ignorance: while near-universal literacy reigned in New England by the 1820s, at best one in three French-speaking peasant men in Quebec could sign his name in the insurrectionary decade of the 1830s. Curtis documents educational conditions on the ground, but also shows how imperial attempts to govern a tumultuous colony propelled the early development of Canadian social science. He provides a revisionist account of the pioneering investigations of Lord Gosford and Lord Durham.
Apostle to the Wilderness
Author: Barry L. Craig
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640852
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This book describes the life and work of John Medley, the first member of the Oxford Movement to be consecrated bishop. As an experiment, W. E. Gladstone, future Prime Minister of England and keen churchman, arranged in 1844 to have a member of this controversial group appointed to the Episcopal bench. Because those associated with this movement were suspected of Roman Catholic theological leanings and perhaps even disloyalty to the English Establishment, such a move was politically and ecclesiastically dangerous in England. So Medley was sent to the colonies. Intended to establish High Churchmanship and the British Empire in the soil of the new world, Medley became convinced, over this forty-seven-year episcopate, that the American model of the church was more practical than the British. He eventually forged an identity for his diocese that was, in many ways, to be the pattern for the modern worldwide Anglican Church. Barry Craig is an Assistant Professor in the department of philosophy at St. Thomas University.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640852
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This book describes the life and work of John Medley, the first member of the Oxford Movement to be consecrated bishop. As an experiment, W. E. Gladstone, future Prime Minister of England and keen churchman, arranged in 1844 to have a member of this controversial group appointed to the Episcopal bench. Because those associated with this movement were suspected of Roman Catholic theological leanings and perhaps even disloyalty to the English Establishment, such a move was politically and ecclesiastically dangerous in England. So Medley was sent to the colonies. Intended to establish High Churchmanship and the British Empire in the soil of the new world, Medley became convinced, over this forty-seven-year episcopate, that the American model of the church was more practical than the British. He eventually forged an identity for his diocese that was, in many ways, to be the pattern for the modern worldwide Anglican Church. Barry Craig is an Assistant Professor in the department of philosophy at St. Thomas University.
The Living Church
Diary of a Country Clergyman 1848-1851
Author: James Reid
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773520004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A crusty yet diffident Scot, his private reflections on the tensions and growing pains experienced by the colonial church and his reaction to events on the wider political scene, offer valuable insights into Reid's life and the times."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773520004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A crusty yet diffident Scot, his private reflections on the tensions and growing pains experienced by the colonial church and his reaction to events on the wider political scene, offer valuable insights into Reid's life and the times."--BOOK JACKET.
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Set
Author: Rosemary Skinner Keller
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253346851
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1443
Book Description
A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253346851
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1443
Book Description
A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.
A History of the Late Province of Lower Canada, Parliamentary and Political, from the Commencement to the Close of Its Existence as a Separate Province, Etc. (Interesting Public Documents and Official Correspondence, Illustrative Of, and Supplementary to the History of Lower Canada.).
Author: Robert Christie (of Quebec.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A History of the Late Province of Lower Canada, Parliamentary and Political, from the Commencement to the Close of Its Existence as a Separate Province
Author: Robert Christie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Québec (Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Québec (Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Author: Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780802034526
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780802034526
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
The Missionary Lives
Author: Terrence L. Craig
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004108158
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
"The Missionary Lives" is the first comprehensive literary examination of the biographies and autobiographies of Canadian missionaries at home and abroad.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004108158
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
"The Missionary Lives" is the first comprehensive literary examination of the biographies and autobiographies of Canadian missionaries at home and abroad.
Leaders of the Canadian Church
Author: William Bertal Heeney
Publisher: Musson
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher: Musson
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description