Using the lives of four families as its focus, Greenbank broadens to explore and capture with extraordinary vividness life as a whole in early
Canada. The remarkable will of the early pioneers, and the dissipation of that will in succeeding generations; the creation of an educational system from scratch; the hardships of everyday life, and the simple recreations that helped to dispel them; the coming of the railways; the subcurrent of alcohol's influence on the culture, and the fight against it; the harsh ethic of evangelism, which gave shape to so many of the attitudes of the people — all these are recurrent themes in Greenbank. Within this broad canvas the lives of individual people are the brush strokes that bring life as a whole into vivid and poignant focus.
First published in
Canada in 1988 to extraordinary acclaim, Greenbank is now available throughout the world in an accessible paperback format.
Using the lives of four families as its focus, Greenbank broadens to explore and capture with extraordinary vividness life as a whole in early
Canada. The remarkable will of the early pioneers, and the dissipation of that will in succeeding generations; the creation of an educational system from scratch; the hardships of everyday life, and the simple recreations that helped to dispel them; the coming of the railways; the subcurrent of alcohol's influence on the culture, and the fight against it; the harsh ethic of evangelism, which gave shape to so many of the attitudes of the people — all these are recurrent themes in Greenbank. Within this broad canvas the lives of individual people are the brush strokes that bring life as a whole into vivid and poignant focus.
First published in
Canada in 1988 to extraordinary acclaim, Greenbank is now available throughout the world in an accessible paperback format.
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Greenbank: In the Country of the Past
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780921149996 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division |
| Publication date: | 11/04/1992 |
| Edition description: | 2nd ed. |
| Pages: | 326 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d) |