Acknowledgments Introduction Empire, Nation and City Charles W. Gordon and the Christian Democracy Minnie J.B. Campbell: Loyalism, Nation, and Empire Secular Settler Nationalism in the Politics of John W. Dafoe Francis M. Beynon, Progressivism, and the Pursuit of Order Conclusion Bibliography
Kurt Korneski teaches in the Department of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
This is a remarkable little book. Although coming in at just
slightly over 200 pages - including endnotes - it manages to pack a
brief and theoretically sophisticated precis of Canadian and
Winnipeg history, four de facto biographies, and much new analysis
of seemingly well-known subjects into a coherent and eminently
readable whole.... All in all, this is a book that makes a
contribution to several fields at once. It fits well with a host of
new works that study settler colonialism, certainly fits well with
many of the newer approaches to British Imperial history and is a
valuable addition to the historiography of both western Canada and
Winnipeg. It is well worth the read. * Labour/Le Travail: Journal
Of Canadian Labour Studies *
[A] valuable addition to this growing literature.... [A]n
insightful look at the intellectual and social history of an urban
outpost of empire.... [T]his book successfully combines the tools
of social and intellectual history to reframe the city of Winnipeg
as part of an expanding Greater British settler society. By
reinterpreting Anglo-Canadian ideas of race, nationalism, and
social reform in both local and global contexts, Korneski
illuminates the extent to which the problems of urban industrial
development - in a word, modernity - were the products of, and
conceived within, Britain's imperial world-system. One need not
embrace its framework of a liberal capitalist order to learn from
this valuable study of the Western Canadian corner of the British
World. * Britain and the World *
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