Inventing Canada : Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation / Suzanne Zeller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeller, Suzanne, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Canada--History.

Science.

Science--Canada--Societies, etc--History.

Nationalism--Canada--History.

Nationalism.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 356 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Tapping a wide range of archival and published sources, Suzanne Zeller documents the place of Victorian science in British North American thought and society during the era of Confederation.

Contents:

Cover; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Part I Geology; 1 Exposing the Strata; 2 Montreal Masonry; 3 Logan's Geological Inventory: ‛Construction and Extension,' 1842-1850; 4 ‛Grandeur and Historical Renown,' 1851-1856; 5 ‛Permanence,' 1857-1869; Part II Terrestrial Magnetism and Meteorology; 6 The Spirit of the Method; 7 Mutual Attractions, 1845-1850; 8 Science as a Cultural Adhesive, 1850-1853; 9 Encompassing the North; Part III Botany; 10 Adventitious Roots; 11 The Metamorphosed Leaf; 12 Fragile Stems, 1857-1863; 13 Flower and Fruit: The Nation as Variation; CONCLUSION; NOTES; NOTE ON SOURCES; INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7578-5

OCLC:

1121057286