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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"lumberjacks"”.
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Lumberjacks, Muscular Christianity, and Nation Building: Creating an Aspirational Canadian Masculinity, 1820 – 1912
… first half of the nineteenth century, Canadian lumberjacks were viewed by Upper Canada’s urban middle class as embodying transgressive masculinity due to the lumberjack’s lack of adherence to British Protestant middle-class social norms. In the second half of the nineteenth century, public …
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Forging Titans: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism in the Northern Forest, 1850-1950
… laborers into a coherent class of wage working lumberjacks and it tracks how this class became an iconic symbol of masculinity in twentieth-century America. "Forging Titans" argues that, as rural America industrialized, the built environment and bodies of workers became parts of nature and these …