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Manliness and Militarism
Educating Young Boys in Ontario for War
Av Mark Moss
Häftad, 2001
430 kr
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Euphoria swept Canada, and especially Ontario, with the outbreak of World War I. Young men rushed to volunteer for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and close to 50 per cent of the half-million Canadian volunteers came from the province of Ontario. Why were people excited by the prospect of war? …
Labour Before the Law
The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948
Häftad, 2001
543 kr
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In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and …
Riding to the Rescue
The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939
Av Steve Hewitt
Häftad, 2006
456 kr
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The Mountie may be one of Canada's best-known national symbols, yet much of the post-nineteenth century history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police remains unexamined, particularly the period between 1914 and 1939, when the RCMP underwent enormous transformation. The nature of this transformation …
Life in Ontario
A Social History
Häftad, 1968
427 kr
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This is Ontario's story, a collective biography of her people, a history of her development as a province. Illustrated by Adrian Dingle, this refreshing study, with its emphasis on the personal, offers an enduring portrait of a province.
Bedside Matters
The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990
Häftad, 2003
456 kr
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Nursing embodies the seemingly timeless characteristics of feminine healing, caring, and nurturing, yet this archetypally female vocation also boasts a distinctive and complex history. Bedside Matters traces four generations of Canadian nurses to explore changes in who became nurses, what work they …
Working Families
Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal
Häftad, 2007
442 kr
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Working Families takes the reader onto the streets of Montreal and into the homes of its working-class families during the years that it became a major, industrial city. Between the 1860s and 1890s the expansion of wage labour changed the bases of family survival. It offered new possibilities and …
Gendered Pasts
Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada
Av Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
415 kr
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It is commonplace today to suggest that gender is socially constructed, that the roles women and men fulfill in their daily lives have been created and defined for them by society and social institutions. But how have men and women negotiated and navigated the gender roles that have been thrust …
School Promoters
Education and Social Class in Mid-Nineteenth Century Upper Canada
Häftad, 2004
456 kr
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We tend to think of contemporary concern for reform in education as unprecedented in its intensity and scope. But as this book about mid-nineteenth century educational ideology shows, the urge to improve society through its schools has been with us a long time. The author examines the attitudes …
Craft Capitalism
Craftsworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario
Häftad, 2007
456 kr
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Many studies have concluded that the effects of early industrialization on traditional craftsworkers were largely negative. Robert B. Kristofferson demonstrates, however, that in at least one area this was not the case. Craft Capitalism focuses on Hamilton, Ontario, and demonstrates how the …
Loyalties in Conflict
A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion,1812-1840
Häftad, 2008
384 kr
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Despite their strategic location on the American border, the townships of Lower Canada have been largely ignored in studies of the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837-38. Originally settled by Loyalists from New York, and followed by much larger numbers of land seekers from New England, this was …
Age of Light, Soap, and Water
Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925
Häftad, 2008
413 kr
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BACK IN PRINT WITH A NEW INTRODUCTIONThe turn of the last century saw a great wave of moral fervour among Protestant social reformers in English Canada. Their targets for moral reform were various: sex hygiene, immigration policy, slum clearance, prostitution, and “white slavery.”Mariana Valverde's …
Angels of the Workplace
Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940
Häftad, 2009
282 kr
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In this renowned 1997 study of the clothing industry in Canada, Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women. Although women comprised a significant majority of garment workers, …
Working in Steel
The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935
Av Craig Heron
Häftad, 2008
398 kr
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In this indispensable study of Canadian industrialization, Craig Heron examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Presenting a stimulating analysis of the Canadian …
Make the Night Hideous
Four English-Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940
Häftad, 2010
398 kr
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The charivari is a loud, late-night surprise house-visiting custom from members of a community, usually to a newlywed couple, accompanied by a quête (a request for a treat or money in exchange for the noisy performance) and/or pranks. Up to the first decades of the twentieth century, charivaris …
Remembrance of Patients Past
Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940
Häftad, 2009
427 kr
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In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health – CAMH) from 1870-1940. Psychiatric patients …
Debating Dissent
Canada and the 1960s
Av Lara A. Campbell, Dominique Clement m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
413 kr
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Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade’s political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes associated with the 1960s by examining what …
Manufacturing Mennonites
Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba
Häftad, 2013
373 kr
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Manufacturing Mennonites examines the efforts of Mennonite intellectuals and business leaders to redefine the group's ethno-religious identity in response to changing economic and social conditions after 1945. As the industrial workplace was one of the most significant venues in which competing …
When the State Trembled
How a.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike
Av Reinhold Kramer, Tom Mitchell
Häftad, 2010
485 kr
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The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike. When the State Trembled recovers the hitherto untold story of the Citizens' Committee of 1000, formed by Winnipeg's business elite in order to crush the revolt and sustain the status …
Making and Breaking the Rules
Women in Quebec, 1919-1939
Häftad, 2010
413 kr
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During the interwar period, Quebec was a strongly patriarchal society, where men in the Church, politics, and medicine, maintained a traditional norm of social and sexual standards that women were expected to abide by. Some women in the media and religious communities were complicit with this …
Dominion of Capital
The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947
Av Don Nerbas
Häftad, 2013
456 kr
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In the critical decades following the First World War, the Canadian political landscape was shifting in ways that significantly recast the relationship between big business and government. As public pressures changed the priorities of Canada’s political parties, many of Canada’s most powerful …
Dignity of Every Human Being
New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture Between the Great Depression and the Cold War
Häftad, 2015
427 kr
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“The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s. Using extensive archival and documentary research, Kirk Niergarth follows the work of regional artists …
Plateaus of Freedom
Nationality, Culture, and State Security in Canada, 1940-1960
E-bok, 2003
554 kr
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'Canadians are not accustomed to thinking of censorship, secret intelligence, and propaganda as a single entity. Much less do they consider that these covertly militaristic activities have anything to do with culture.' So writes Mark Krismanson in this important study of the intertwining activities …
Our Own Master Race
Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945
E-bok, 1990
453 kr
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Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians …
Manliness and Militarism
Educating Young Boys in Ontario for War
Av Mark Moss
E-bok, 2001
453 kr
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Euphoria swept Canada, and especially Ontario, with the outbreak of World War I. Young men rushed to volunteer for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and close to 50 per cent of the half-million Canadian volunteers came from the province of Ontario. Why were people excited by the prospect of war? …
Dreams of Equality
Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950
E-bok, 1989
453 kr
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Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both …
Regulating Girls and Women
Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960
E-bok, 2001
463 kr
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For people living in Ontario, as throughout Canada, the period from 1920 to 1960 was one of great change and turmoil – the roaring twenties the Great Depression, the upheaval of war, and the economic boom of the postwar years. One constant in society over those years, however, was the differential …
Fishery for Modern Times
The State and the Industrialization of the Newfoundland Fishery, 1934-1968
E-bok, 2001
521 kr
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In the early 1990s, the northern cod populations off the coast of Newfoundland had become so depleted that the federal government placed a moratorium on commercial fishing. The impact was devastating, both for Newfoundland's economy and for local fishing communities. Today, although this natural …
Working in Steel
The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935
Av Craig Heron
E-bok, 1988
453 kr
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In this indispensable study of Canadian industrialization, Craig Heron examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Presenting a stimulating analysis of the Canadian …
Riding to the Rescue
The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939
Av Steve Hewitt
E-bok, 2006
588 kr
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The Mountie may be one of Canada's best-known national symbols, yet much of the post-nineteenth century history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police remains unexamined, particularly the period between 1914 and 1939, when the RCMP underwent enormous transformation. The nature of this transformation …
Making and Breaking the Rules
Women in Quebec, 1919-1939
E-bok, 1994
453 kr
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During the interwar period, Quebec was a strongly patriarchal society, where men in the Church, politics, and medicine, maintained a traditional norm of social and sexual standards that women were expected to abide by. Some women in the media and religious communities were complicit with this …
