TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Richard
TI  - Gentlemen engineers: the working lives of Frank and Walter Shanly 
SN  - 9781442675247
AV  - TA140.S52 W44 1999eb
U1  - 624/.092/2713 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Toronto [Ont.]
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Shanly, Francis,
KW  - Shanly, Walter,
KW  - Civil engineers
KW  - Ontario
KW  - Biography
KW  - Ingénieurs civils
KW  - Biographies
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Civil
KW  - General
KW  - Business
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - e-books
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Livres numériques
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Shanly boys leave home -- Learning on the job -- A rough ride on the Grand Trunk Railway -- Boldness and weakness: Frank Shanly, 1855-1882 -- Honour and pride: Walter Shanly, 1855-1899 -- Gentlemen engineers
N2  - "Gentlemen Engineers tells the engaging story of the working lives of Frank and Walter Shanly, two well-connected nineteenth-century Canadian civil engineers and businessmen who worked on many of the significant projects of the age. Drawing on rich documentary sources, Richard White reveals details of their work, not just in the office and in the field, but in their homes and private studies as well." "The most striking discovery White makes is that when the brothers entered the civil engineering profession in the 1840s, it was already an established profession with a fairly high social status. The Shanlys were from an old Irish gentry family, but found the profession quite compatible with their social position and gentry culture. The author thoroughly explores the connection between the Shanlys as engineers and as gentlemen." "White finds another unexpected theme in the Shanlys' lives. In much of the recent social history of business, studies of elite nineteenth-century businessmen have tended to concentrate on how these men acquired, consolidated, and transmitted power and status over generations. But the careers of Frank and Walter Shanly were, in fact, full of hard work, struggle, and disappointment." "This study is an important contribution to our understanding of the professionalization of civil engineering, and to the modernization of business practices in nineteenth-century Canada."--Jacket
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