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Expressive Acts is a major accomplishment of research and writing. With a storyteller's eye for the good detail, Radforth digs deep into the rowdy public sphere of nineteenth-century Toronto. - Steve Penfold, Professor of History, University of Toronto Expressive Acts is a masterclass in historiography. While it explains why things happened, the storytelling also invites readers to witness for themselves the ways in which mid-Victorian masculinities in Toronto competed and performed in the streets, in Parliament, and in the press for power. - John C. Walsh, Co-Director, Carleton Centre for Public History and Associate Professor of History, Carleton University With its multi-faceted explorations of a wide range of public political, religious, and social celebrations and demonstrations in Victorian Toronto, Expressive Acts shows how vibrant the city's street culture was in this period. This well-researched and cogently argued study calls our attention to the ways that gender, religion, class, and race were integral to Toronto's public culture. - Cecilia Morgan, Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto

"""With its multi-faceted explorations of a wide range of public political, religious, and social celebrations and demonstrations in Victorian Toronto, Expressive Acts shows how vibrant the city's street culture was in this period. This well-researched and cogently argued study calls our attention to the ways that gender, religion, class, and race were integral to Toronto's public culture."" --Cecilia Morgan, Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto "" Expressive Acts is a major accomplishment of research and writing. With a storyteller's eye for the good detail, Radforth digs deep into the rowdy public sphere of nineteenth-century Toronto."" --Steve Penfold, Professor of History, University of Toronto "" Expressive Acts is a masterclass in historiography. While it explains why things happened, the storytelling also invites readers to witness for themselves the ways in which mid-Victorian masculinities in Toronto competed and performed in the streets, in Parliament, and in the press for power."" --John C. Walsh, Co-Director, Carleton Centre for Public History and Associate Professor of History, Carleton University"

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Ian Radforth is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto.

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