The Montréal first nine : a study of English language newspaper coverage of baseball in nineteenth century Montréal

• Main Author: Braganza, Paul Michael Henry
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Bourgeois; First Nations
• Online Access: https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/8840/; https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/8840/1/MR14194.pdf

Political and economic changes, particularly a shift away from an economic dependence on the trading of raw materials, and increased industrialization, helped establish new kinds of élites, the industrialists and professional bourgeoisie. These men, some of whom had nationalist leanings, appropriat...