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Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s (Hardcover)
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Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s (Hardcover)
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of
journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers,
labor leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on
poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism,
prostitution, sweatshop conditions, inadequate educational
facilities, and other "social evils." Although they represented an
array of political positions and advocated a range of strategies to
deal with what they deemed problems, historians have come to term
this impulse "urban reform" or the "urban reform movement." This
book considers the history of reform ideology in Canada. It does so
by considering four leading reformers living in what might be
described as the most Canadian of Canadian cities, Winnipeg,
Manitoba. While the book engages in discussions/debates surrounding
the particular individuals it considers, its more general argument
is that to understand the history of reform in Canada requires
viewing reformers as simultaneously experiencing and responding to
two basic phenomena simultaneously. It requires understanding them
as confronting the polarizing tendencies, exploitation, and
sometimes grinding poverty that was central to the economic order
they (often unwittingly) helped to impose in northern North
America. It also, however, requires seeing them as fundamentally
shaped by the process and legacy of the dispossession of Aboriginal
peoples, and the changing nature of Aboriginal-settler relations
that were also central to the development of Canada.
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