Inventing Canada : : Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation / / Suzanne Zeller.
The years of the nineteenth century that saw British North America attempting to establish a transcontinental nation also saw the fruition of scientific ideas that chalenged traditional conceptions of man's relationship with nature and the land. Victorian throught was undergiong a radical trans...
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Zeller, Suzanne, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Inventing Canada : Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation / Suzanne Zeller. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©1987 1 online resource (376 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. GEOLOGY -- PART II. TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM AND METEOROLOGY -- PART III. BOTANY -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Note on Sources -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The years of the nineteenth century that saw British North America attempting to establish a transcontinental nation also saw the fruition of scientific ideas that chalenged traditional conceptions of man's relationship with nature and the land. Victorian throught was undergiong a radical transition, from the static, orderly world modelled by eighteenth-century mathematical physics to the world-in-process epitomized by the mid-nineteenth-century theory of evolution by natural selection. In British North America this intellectual transition played itself out in a number of contexts: in the recorganization of science from the natural history tradition to a utilitarian ideology promoted by business and professional classes; in the institutionalization of scientific inventories such as the Geological Survey of Canada; and in the expansion from local to transcontinental interests. 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. Four prominent Victorian 'inventory' sciences provide a focus for her study: geology, terrestrial magnetism, meterorology, and botany, each set within its wider context. She considers the role of individuals instrumental in each of these pursuits -- Sir William Edmond Logan, Sir John Henry Lefroy, and George Lawson -- and a host of scientists, politicians, educators, journalists, businessmen, and 'improving' farmers who promoted public support of these sciences. Together they formed a community that believed that science not only enhanced the possibilites of Canada's material progress but also provided a fertile ground for a 'new nationality' to take root as a northern variation of the British nation. Victorian science offered a means to assess and control nature as a rational alternative to retreat from nature's harshness. It also helped develop a sense of Canada's past and brighten the prospects for a transcontinental future. 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 30. Aug 2021) Nationalism Canada History. Science Canada History. Science Canada Societies, etc History. HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487575786 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487575786 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487575786.jpg |
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