| dc.contributor.author | Guildford, Janet Vey. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:34:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1990 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1990 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN64473 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55192 | |
| dc.description | In mid-nineteenth century Halifax a coherent and sometimes self-conscious middle class began to emerge. The new middle class slowly forged a common identity through the changing social relations of the international industrial economy and through an increasing attachment to a cluster of ideas that can collectively be called bourgeois progress. Between 1850 and 1870 diverse groups within the middle class banded together in associations and organizations to pursue their goal of moral and material progress. The role of the pursuit of moral progress in creating a middle class identity and consolidating middle class influence is the central subject of this study. The transformation of a loosely organized collection of varied public schools into a large modern, professional and bureaucratic school system forms the central core of the discussion of the process of middle class formation in Halifax. The success of middle class institutional development in Halifax rested on newly acquired mechanisms for intra-class collaboration. The development of new strategies for middle class collaboration was an essential step in the consolidation of bourgeois power and influence. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1990. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education, History of. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sociology, Social Structure and Development. | en_US |
| dc.title | Public school reform and the Halifax middle class, 1850-1870. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
