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Title

Constructing modern Canada : readings in post-Confederation history / edited by Chad Gaffield.

Publication

Toronto : Copp Clark Longman, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gaffield, Chad, 1951-

Description

xxix, 589 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Since 1867
• Geschichte 1867-1994
• Canada > History > 1867-
• Canada > Social conditions > 1867-
• Canada > Histoire > 1867-
• Canada > Conditions sociales > 1867-

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part 1. Canada and industrialization, 1867-96. -- Farms, forests, and cities: the image of the land and the rise of the metropolis in Ontario, 1860-1914, by Allan Smith. -- Class struggle and merchant capital: craftsmen and labourers on the Halifax waterfront, 1850-1900, by Ian McKay. -- Confronting Riel and completing the CPR, by D.N. Sprague. [Louis Riel. Canadian Pacific Railway]. -- After the fur trade: the aboriginal labouring class of British Columbia, 1849-1890, by John Lutz. [First Nations, BC]. -- The Knights of Labor and the Salvation Army: religion and working-class culture in Ontario, 1882-1890, by Lynne Marks. -- Emigration and development in a Quebec rural county, by Bruno Ramirez. -- Rivers of sawdust: the battle over industrial pollution in Canada, 1865-1903, by R. Peter Gillis.
• Part 2. Canada's century, 1896-1919. -- Speaking modern: language, culture, and hegemony in grocery window displays, 1887-1920, by Keith Walden. -- Dan Cranmer's potlatch: law as coercion, symbol, and rhetoric in British Columbia, 1884-1951, by Tina Loo. -- Baseball, class, and community in the Maritime provinces, 1870-1910, by Colin D. Howell. -- Race and recruitment in World War I: enlistment of visible minorities in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, by James W. St G. Walker.
• Part 3. Corporate economy and mass society, 1920-60. -- "Feminine trifles of vast importance": writing gender into the history of consumption, by Cynthia Wright. -- For men and girls: the politics of experience of gendered wagework, by Joy Parr. -- "It was a hard life": class and gender in the work and family rhythms of a railway town, 1920-1950, by Mark Rosenfeld. -- Consolidating disparity: the Maritimes and the industrialization of Canada during the second World War, by Ernest R. Forbes. -- Family allowances and family autonomy: Quebec families encounter the Welfare State, 1945-1955, by Dominique Marshall.
• Part 4. Canada in the Global Village. -- The Canadian North in the circumpolar age, by Robert Page. -- Life in a fast-food factory, by Ester Reiter. -- Home dreams: women and the suburban experiment in Canada, 1945-1960, by Veronica Strong-Boag. -- How economics is shaping the constitutional debate in Quebec, by Pierre Fortin. -- The Prairies as region: the contemporary meaning of an old idea, by Gerald Friesen. -- "So great a heritage as ours": immigration and the survival of the Canadian polity, by Robert F. Harney. -- Where justice lies: aboriginal rights and wrongs in Temagami, by Tony Hall.

ISBN

0773052534

LCCN

cn^94930110^

OCLC

29794936

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library