The petty bourgeoisie in colonial Canterbury : a study of the Canterbury Working Man's Political Protection and Mutual Improvement Association (1865-66), and the Canterbury Freehold Land Society (1866-70).

This thesis argues for the existence of a distinct petty bourgeois socio-economic class, with particular liberal values, in colonial Christchurch. It approaches this through an examination of two related mid-Victorian Christchurch institutions, the Canterbury Working Man's Association and the C...

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Main Author: Wright, G. R.
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Department of History 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4308