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A Curious Field-Book: Science & Society in Canadian History

Trevor H. Levere

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Description:Science in Canada has been both a cultural force and an aid to national development. A Curious Field-book explores the seminal and ever-increasing role of science in the development of Canadian society by means of an introductory essay and four documentary sections.The first section is on science in the formation of New France. It is followed by another on the relationship between science and government in nineteenth-century Canada. This section illustrates the strength of British utilitarianism, the relations between scientific investigation and technological and economic exploitation, and the emerging popular Canadian consciousness of the power of science in shaping the nation. Surveys provide the focus here, the Geological and imperial magnetic surveys among them. Next comes an examination of the social role and organization of science, and its image with the general public. The section looks at the general ethos of mid-Victorian Canadian science, the aims of popular scientific institutions, debates on the relations between science and religion, the agricultural community's attitudes to supposedly useful science, and the power of science in fostering nationalism in times of war and peace. Finally comes a unifying chapter on Canadian scientific education a major ingredient in Canada's story—its aims and achievements from the early Jesuit seminaries to the first research centres of our century.A Curious Field-book is one of a series of projected volumes on Canadian social history. Other volumes at present available are a companion volume to this book—Let us be Honest and Modest: Technology and Society in Canadian History, B. Sinclair, N. R. Ball, and J. O. Petersen, eds. and The Workingman in the Nineteenth Century, Michael S. Cross, ed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Curious Field-Book: Science & Society in Canadian History. To get started finding A Curious Field-Book: Science & Society in Canadian History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Science in Canada has been both a cultural force and an aid to national development. A Curious Field-book explores the seminal and ever-increasing role of science in the development of Canadian society by means of an introductory essay and four documentary sections.The first section is on science in the formation of New France. It is followed by another on the relationship between science and government in nineteenth-century Canada. This section illustrates the strength of British utilitarianism, the relations between scientific investigation and technological and economic exploitation, and the emerging popular Canadian consciousness of the power of science in shaping the nation. Surveys provide the focus here, the Geological and imperial magnetic surveys among them. Next comes an examination of the social role and organization of science, and its image with the general public. The section looks at the general ethos of mid-Victorian Canadian science, the aims of popular scientific institutions, debates on the relations between science and religion, the agricultural community's attitudes to supposedly useful science, and the power of science in fostering nationalism in times of war and peace. Finally comes a unifying chapter on Canadian scientific education a major ingredient in Canada's story—its aims and achievements from the early Jesuit seminaries to the first research centres of our century.A Curious Field-book is one of a series of projected volumes on Canadian social history. Other volumes at present available are a companion volume to this book—Let us be Honest and Modest: Technology and Society in Canadian History, B. Sinclair, N. R. Ball, and J. O. Petersen, eds. and The Workingman in the Nineteenth Century, Michael S. Cross, ed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Curious Field-Book: Science & Society in Canadian History. To get started finding A Curious Field-Book: Science & Society in Canadian History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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