| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 164 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Liberalism, nationalism, citizenship : three models of political community -- The fetish of individuality : Richard Flathman's willfully liberal politics -- Civil resources in a liberal society : "thick" and "thin" versions of liberalism -- From community to citizenship : the quest for a post-liberal public philosophy -- Is there such a thing as a communitarian political philosophy? -- Nationalism's challenge to political philosophy -- Reflections of a diaspora Jew in Israel -- Hannah Arendt as a critic of nationalism -- National self-determination : some cautionary remarks on the rhetoric of rights -- Citizenship and nationalism : is Canada a "real country"? -- 1989 : Nationalism, internationalism and the Nairn-Hobsbawm debate -- Civicism between nationalism and globalism : some reflections on the problem of political community |
| Summary |
A significant contribution to the growing body of work on Canadian environmental history. The book places a history of ethnicity and environment in the Trent Valley within the literature of settler societies of Upper Canada and North America. It looks at the Trent Valley's geography, prehistory, and Native Peoples -- including the Huron and the Mississauga -- alongside the Anglo-Celtic migrations. Careful attention to the life and nature writings of Catherine Parr Traill |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-154) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Ontario -- Trent River Valley -- History -- 19th century
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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Human ecology
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| SUBJECT |
Trent River Valley (Ont.) -- History -- 19th century
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Ontario -- Trent River Valley
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781552384480 |
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1552384489 |
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