Frontier and metropolis : regions, cities, and identities in Canada before 1914 / J. M. S. Careless.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Careless, J. M. S. (James Maurice Stockford), 1919-2009, author.

Series:

Donald G. Creighton lectures ; 1987.

The Donald G. Creighton lectures ; 1987

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Canada--History.

Cities and towns.

Canada.

Canada--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.M.S. Careless. In these essays he returns to those themes, discussing how national and regional identity in Canada show vital links with metropolitan-hinterland relationship across time and space.The first essay presents an overall appraisal of the historic connections between metropolitan centres and frontiers or regions in Canada. These connections might be manifested in economic structures, political fabrics, or social networks, and also in modes of opinion and popular images and traditions. The second part of the book inquires into some major conceptual treatments given to frontier and metropolis in history. The third seeks to evaluate the impact of metropolitanism on distinctive features of identity that are revealed in Canadian historical experience. A fourth essays rounds out the volume by discussing the influence of external metropolanism in Canada.Careless endows his subject with the combined fornce of his own continuing research, his sensitivity to the new historical scholarship, and the lively and penetrating mind that have made him one of Canada's leading historians for more than thirty years.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""LECTURE ONE: Matters of Structure and Perception""; ""LECTURE TWO: Frontierism and Metropolitanism: Concepts Revisited""; ""LECTURE THREE: The Metropolis and Identity in Canadian Experience""; ""LECTURE FOUR: External Metropolitanism in Canada's Opening Age""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-5445-7

1-282-05661-1

9786612056611

1-4426-7510-1

OCLC:

944178171