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Island in an Empire : education, religion, and social life in Newfoundland, 1800-1855 / Phillip McCann.
- Title
- Island in an Empire : education, religion, and social life in Newfoundland, 1800-1855 / Phillip McCann.
- Author
- McCann, Phillip
- Publication
- Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Newfoundland and Labrador : Boulder Publications, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- xiv, 318 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Education > Newfoundland and Labrador > History > 19th century
- Politics and government
- British colonies
- Education
- Manners and customs
- Religion
- Social conditions
- Newfoundland and Labrador > Social life and customs > 19th century
- Newfoundland and Labrador > Social conditions > 19th century
- Newfoundland and Labrador > Religion > 19th century
- Newfoundland and Labrador > Politics and government > 19th century
- Great Britain > History > America > 19th century
- Newfoundland and Labrador > History > 1763-1855
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Empires, missionaries, and schools 1800-1836 -- Merchants and evangelicals: The origin and early years of the Newfoundland School District Society, 1823-1855 -- Religion, ethnicity, education, and the social order: The first 30 years of the Benevolent Irish Society, 1806-1936 -- The "No Popery" crusade and the Newfoundland school system, 1936-1843 -- The grammar schools at Carbonear and Harbour Grace -- The amateur theatre -- "Rollicking boys": Mumming in St. John's and the outports -- Entertainment and society, St. John's 1840-1855 -- Sport for all: Horse racing and the Regatta -- Sir John Harvey, J.V.Nugent, and the inspectorship controversy in the 1840s -- St. John's Academy, 1845-1850: A battle won and lost -- Bishop Field, Hugh Hoyles, and the 1852 division of the Protestant education grant -- Sir John Harvey's cultural revolution, 1841-1846.
- ISBN
- 9781927099704 (paperback)
- 1927099706 (paperback)
- LCCN
- ^^2016435731
- OCLC
- 936978206
- SCSB-11979928
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library