More of a Man : : Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America /

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,
Kristofferson, Robert K.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2013
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (492 p.) :; 14 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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