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The Frontier Environment and Social Order - The Letters of Francis Codd from Upper Canada (Hardcover)
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The Frontier Environment and Social Order - The Letters of Francis Codd from Upper Canada (Hardcover)
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In today's political climate, when sustainable development is the
perceived goal for farming and forest communities throughout the
globe, the experiences of early Canadian settlers force a
re-examination of many of the assumptions about the processes
through which wilderness has been civilised. The Frontier
Environment and Social Order examines the development of civil
society within the forest frontier of Upper Canada, using the
letters of Francis Codd, a young English doctor, who settled in the
Ottawa Valley in 1846 as the textual basis. The letters provide
detailed evidence about frontier development: clearing the forest,
establishing farming communities, and bringing civil institutions
to a developing country. This period was one of intense social and
environmental transformation as immigrants began the difficult task
of settling a new land. The backdrop to Francis Codd's life in
Canada was dramatic, but the detailed observations he provides
bring the process of settlement to life. Codd became one of the
cornerstones of local society and his letters and the memoirs of
his contemporaries document the privations and struggles of the
time. They also present new evidence on the establishment of a
relationship between nature and culture at a time when ideas of
wilderness and civilisation were being forged through civil society
and its myths. This fascinating book will appeal to environmental
social scientists and economists, historians, geographers and
migration specialists as well as the interested reader.
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