Canadian Intellectuals, the Tory Tradition, and the Challenge of Modernity, 1939-1970 /

Canadian Intellectuals, the Tory Tradition, and the Challenge of Modernity, 1939-1970 / / Philip Massolin.

In this well-researched book, Philip Massolin takes a fascinating look at the forces of modernization that swept through English Canada, beginning at the turn of the twentieth century. Victorian values - agrarian, religious - and the adherence to a rigid set of philosophical and moral codes were bei...

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Massolin, Philip,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2001
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Science and Technique: The Critique of the Technological Consciousness
  • 3. The Modernization of Higher Learning in Canada I
  • 4. The Modernization of Higher Learning in Canada II: Academia after the War
  • 5. Battling the Philistines: The Quest for Culture in Post-War Canada
  • 6. The World We Have Lost: Conservatism and the Revolutionary World
  • 7. Epilogue: The Demise of the Conservative-Nationalist Vision and the Triumph of Modernity
  • Notes
  • Index

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