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Author Samson, Danny, 1960-

Title The spirit of industry and improvement : liberal government and rural-industrial society, Nova Scotia, 1790-1867 / Daniel Samson
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, [2], 432 pages) : map
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map -- Introduction: Industry and Improvement -- 1 Land and Settlement -- 2 Discourses of Improvement -- 3 The Open Field that Was Early Mining -- 4 Enclosing the Commons at Minudie -- 5 Industrial Colonization and the General Mining Association -- 6 A Colony of Miners -- 7 Farms and Families -- 8 Merchants in the Country of Coal -- 9 Improvers -- 10 Antimonopoly -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P
Rs -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-425) and index
Subject Industrialization -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 19th century
Liberalism -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 19th century
Coal mines and mining -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 19th century
Agriculture -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- General.
Agriculture
Coal mines and mining
Industrialization
Liberalism
Rural conditions
SUBJECT Nova Scotia -- Rural conditions
Subject Nova Scotia
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773574960
0773574964