More of a Man : : Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America / / Andrew Holman, Robert K. Kristofferson.
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to...
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Holman, Andrew, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut More of a Man : Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America / Andrew Holman, Robert K. Kristofferson. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] ©2013 1 online resource (492 p.) : 14 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Source -- Dramatis Personae -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Andrew McIlwraith and His World -- 'Is the Working Man Better Off in America than in Britain?' Andrew McIlwraith's Letter to the Ayrshire Times, August 29, 1860 -- Diary for 1857 -- Diary for 1858 -- Diary for 1859 -- Diary for 1860 -- Diary for 1861 -- Diary for 1862 -- Epilogue: Endings and Beginnings -- Appendix 1: The McIlwraith and Goldie Family Trees -- Appendix 2: Andrew McIlwraith's Mechanics' Institute Library Loans, Newton-on-Ayr, Scotland, 1846-1852 -- Appendix 3: Memoranda, Cash Accounts, and Letters Sent and Received, 1857-1862 -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed financially and emotionally amidst challenging circumstances. The diaries trace his transformations, from an immigrant newcomer to a respected townsman, a wage worker to an entrepreneur, and a bachelor to a married man.Carefully edited and fully annotated by historians Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson, More of a Man features an introduction providing historical context for McIlwraith's life and an epilogue detailing what happened to him after the diaries end. Historians of labour, gender, and migration in the North Atlantic world will find More of a Man a valuable primary document of considerable insight and depth. All readers will find it a lively story of life in the nineteenth century. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Bookkeepers Ontario Diaries. Drafters Ontario Diaries. Patternmakers New York (State) New York Diaries. Patternmakers Ontario Diaries. DISCOUNT-B. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. bisacsh Kristofferson, Robert K., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut print 9781442611641 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442662193 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442662193 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442662193.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Source -- Dramatis Personae -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Andrew McIlwraith and His World -- 'Is the Working Man Better Off in America than in Britain?' Andrew McIlwraith's Letter to the Ayrshire Times, August 29, 1860 -- Diary for 1857 -- Diary for 1858 -- Diary for 1859 -- Diary for 1860 -- Diary for 1861 -- Diary for 1862 -- Epilogue: Endings and Beginnings -- Appendix 1: The McIlwraith and Goldie Family Trees -- Appendix 2: Andrew McIlwraith's Mechanics' Institute Library Loans, Newton-on-Ayr, Scotland, 1846-1852 -- Appendix 3: Memoranda, Cash Accounts, and Letters Sent and Received, 1857-1862 -- Index |
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