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Inventing Canada : early Victorian science and the idea of a transcontinental nation  Cover Image E-book E-book

Inventing Canada : early Victorian science and the idea of a transcontinental nation

Summary: 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802066060
  • ISBN: 9780802026446
  • ISBN: 0802066062
  • ISBN: 0802026443
  • ISBN: 9781487575786
  • ISBN: 1487575785
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 356 pages [13] pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
    remote
    access
    preservation
    Computer data.
  • Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, �1987.

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:september.21
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Cover; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Part I Geology; 1 Exposing the Strata; 2 Montreal Masonry; 3 Logan's Geological Inventory: ‛Construction and Extension,' 1842-1850; 4 ‛Grandeur and Historical Renown,' 1851-1856; 5 ‛Permanence,' 1857-1869; Part II Terrestrial Magnetism and Meteorology; 6 The Spirit of the Method; 7 Mutual Attractions, 1845-1850; 8 Science as a Cultural Adhesive, 1850-1853; 9 Encompassing the North; Part III Botany; 10 Adventitious Roots; 11 The Metamorphosed Leaf; 12 Fragile Stems, 1857-1863; 13 Flower and Fruit: The Nation as Variation; CONCLUSION; NOTES; NOTE ON SOURCES; INDEX
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
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
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by JSTOR.
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Nationalism -- Canada -- History
Science -- Canada -- History
Science -- Canada -- Societies, etc -- History
Nationalisme -- Canada -- Histoire
Sciences -- Canada -- Associations -- Histoire
Sciences -- Canada -- Histoire
HISTORY -- Canada -- Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
Nationalism
Nationalisme -- Canada -- Histoire
SCIENCE -- History
Science -- Societies, etc
Science
Sciences -- Canada -- Histoire
Canada
Canada -- Science, history
JSTOR-DDA
Multi-User.
Genre: Electronic books.
History.

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