Research Catalog

Title

The Challenge of modernity : a reader on post-Confederation Canada / Ian McKay, [editor].

Publication

Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, c1992.

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Additional Authors

McKay, Ian, 1953-

Description

xxvi, 485 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This survey reader is an introduction to some of the basic themes of post-confederation Canadian history. Its 27 readings represent many different perspectives and aspects of the part, presented in ways that range from academic expositions to autobiographical accounts. Unlike many survey reader, this one has a unifying theme: modernity.

Subject

• Since 1867
• Canada > History > 1867-

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: All That is Solid Melts into Air -- Conquest and Consolidation: Western Natives and the Cultural Expansion of Canada -- Prairie Indians, 1840-1900: The End of Autonomy / Gerald Friesen -- Two Acres and a Cow: Peasant Farming for the Indians of the Northwest, 1889-1897 / Sarah Carter-- An Appeal by the Indians of Vancouver Island -- Working-Class Arts of Survival in Urban Central Canada, 1870-1900 -- Joe Beef of Montreal: Working-Class Culture and the Tavern, 1869-1889 / Peter DeLottinville -- Pigs, Cows, and Boarders: Non-Wage Forms of Survival Among Montreal Families, 1861-1891 / Bettina Bradbury -- Hidden Workers: Child Labour and the Family Economy in Late Nineteenth-Century Urban Ontario / John Bullen -- Canadian Mythologies and the Western Frontier -- The Great March of the Mounted Police in Popular Literature, 1873-1973 / Keith Walden -- Duff and George Go West: A Tale of Two Frontiers / Robin Fisher --^
• In Search of a Post-Confederation Maritime Historiography, 1900-1967 / E.R. Forbes -- The Mysterious Other: Immigrants, the New Labour Market, and the Construction of Ethnicity -- The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category / Kay J. Anderson -- Montreal's King of Italian Labour: A Case Study of Padronism / Robert F. Harney -- The Skilled Emigrant and Her Kin: Gender, Culture, and Labour Recruitment / Joy Parr -- The Mysterious East: Or, the Strange Death of Dreams -- Newfoundlands Traditional Economy and Development to 1934 / David Alexander -- The 1920s: Decade of Struggle / John G. Reid -- Class Conflict in the Coal Industry: Cape Breton, 1922 / David Frank -- The Politics of Reproduction -- Deviant Anonymous: Single Mothers at the Hopital de la Misericorde in Montreal, 1929-1939 / Andree Levesque --^
• The Creation of a Haven for Human Thoroughbreds: The Sterilization of the Feeble-Minded and the Mentally Ill in British Columbia / Angus McLaren -- Debating Sexuality in Halifax, 1920 / Mrs. Donald Shaw and Others -- Quebecs Great Upheaval -- Quebecs New Middle Class in Search of Social Hegemony: Causes and Political Consequences / Marc Renaud -- The Turbulent Years: Feminism Ignites / Micheline Dumont, Michele Jean, Marie Lavigne, and Jennifer Stoddart -- The Realm of Childhood / Pierre Vallieres -- The Shifting Boundaries of the Self: Transformations of Gender, 1940-1990 -- Theyre Still Women After All: Wartime Jitters Over Femininity / Ruth Roach Pierson -- Mixed Messages: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Yellow Press in Quebec and Ontario During the 1950s-1960s / Introduction by Steven Maynard -- Two Hands for the Clock: Changing Patterns in the Gendered Division of Labour in the Home / Meg Luxton -- Storms Ahead -- Free Trade, Meech Lake, and the Two Nationalisms / Philip Resnick --^
• Quebec and Canada: The Last Rejoinder / Daniel Latouche -- Lord Durham Then and Now / David R. Cameron.

ISBN

0075511509 :

LCCN

cn^91095470^

OCLC

25095870

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library