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Becoming modern in Toronto : the Industrial Exhibition and the shaping of a late Victorian culture / Keith Walden.
Author
Walden, Keith, 1948-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Description
430 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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T940.B1 W35 1997
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Fairs
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Social aspects
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Ontario
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Toronto
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Exhibitions
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Social aspects
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Ontario
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Toronto
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Toronto Industrial Exhibition
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History
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Summary note
"In Becoming Modern in Toronto, Keith Walden shows how the Toronto Industrial Exhibition, from its founding, in 1879, to 1903 (when it was renamed the Canadian National Exhibition), influenced the shaping and ordering of the emerging urban culture." "The book is arranged around seven thematic elements - order, confidence, display, identity, space, entertainment, and carnival - each of which concerns the way the Exhibition contributed to a search for definition in the face of innovation. The efforts to divide existence into logical, unambiguous categories and to promote controlled conduct was, however, constantly frustrated by the novelty of the fair itself. The Exhibition presented fairgoers with new perspectives and information, while the exhibits simultaneously denied and invited their participation. Though the fair seemed to glorify professional accomplishments and legitimate elite leadership, it also implied that the fruits of industrial capitalist society were not exclusive. Walden concentrates on these ambiguities, revealing how the status quo was both confirmed and challenged at the fair." "Becoming Modern in Toronto takes into account a variety of social tensions and concerns that pervaded late Victorian culture. It will be compelling reading for historians, sociologists, and cultural anthropologists, as well as for those interested in the symbolic and social meaning of public festivity and its regulation."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-421) and index.
Contents
1. Order
2. Confidence
3. Display
4. Identity
5. Space
6. Entertainment
7. Carnival
Epilogue: Modernity.
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ISBN
0802008852 ((bound))
9780802008855 ((bound))
0802078702 ((pbk.))
9780802078704 ((pbk.))
LCCN
97170022
OCLC
36341596
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A generation of excellence : a history of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research / Craig Brown.
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Becoming modern in Toronto : the Industrial Exhibition and the shaping of a late Victorian culture / Keith Walden.
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