More of a man :: diaries of a Scottish craftsman in mid-nineteenth-century North America /

More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to...

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Main Author: McIlwraith, Andrew, 1830-1891
Other Authors: Kristofferson, Robert B., 1965-, Holman, Andrew C. (Andrew Carl), 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed financially and emotionally amidst challenging circumstances. The diaries trace his transformations, from an immigrant newcomer to a respected townsman, a wage worker to an entrepreneur, and a bachelor to a married man. Carefully edited and fully annotated by historians Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson, More of a Man features an introduction providing historical context for McIlwraith's life and an epilogue detailing what happened to him after the diaries end. Historians of labour, gender, and migration in the North Atlantic world will find More of a Man a valuable primary document of considerable insight and depth. All readers will find it a lively story of life in the nineteenth century. --
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 458 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits, digital file
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781442662193
1442662190

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