"The School Promotersremains an essential contribution to the field of education history. More than a reprint of a classic work, this new edition brings Prentice's original insights into conversation with growing debates about Egerton Ryerson and schooling's role in building and maintaining Canada's settler- capitalist status quo."--Sean Carleton, Associate Professor of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba "This edition introduces a new generation of students and scholars to Alison Prentice's The School Promoters(1977), which brought the emergent tools of social history to bear on the history of public education in nineteenth-century Ontario. Updated with appendices and a foreword that bring Prentice's focus on schooling as class domination into conversation with its function as an instrument of settler-colonial rule, this edition is crucial reading for those who want to understand 'Egerton Ryerson and his circle,' as well as the ongoing effects of their legacies."--Jody Mason, Professor of English, Carleton University, and author of Home Feelings: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement "This new edition of The School Promotersmakes for an important new look at a classic work in Canadian social history. The original work established that property owners in what became Ontario supported the creation of public schools to consolidate their position by changing the knowledge, habits, and loyalties of the lower classes. The new foreword and appendices shows that settler property owners proposed residential schools to reshape Indigenous peoples in the same way. Schooling and its genocidal consequences have been integral to the settler-colonial project.

"--Timothy J. Stanley, Professor Emeritus of Education, University of Ottawa.