Improving Upper Canada: Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791-1852

By: Fair, Ross

Agricultural societies founded in the colony of Upper Canada were the institutional embodiment of the ideology of improvement, modelled on contemporary societies in Britain and the United States. In Improving Upper Canada, Ross Fair explores how the agricultural improvers who established and led these organizations were important agents of state formation.

The book investigates the initial failed attempts to create a single agricultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487553536
• ISBN13: 9781487553531
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher