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On the case : explorations in social history

Title: On the case : explorations in social history / edited by Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson.
Publication: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1998.

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Description

vii, 369 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"On the Case is a timely book intended to provide a forum for discussing the theoretical and methodological issues that arise in connection with the use of case files in research. The book brings together theoretical debates, new research, and new research methods and offers compelling illustrations of the drama, conflict, and power relations that the case file can capture." "This collection of essays features some of Canada's leading social historians. Readers will encounter an impressive array of case files, including psychiatrists' accounts of sexual deviants, employment records of sailors, state welfare and Indian Affairs reports, court records, the patient forms of hospital and asylum doctors, and state security files. While the contributors differ in choice of subject and approach, they share a commitment to the progressive traditions of social history. They recover the voices and actions of people - not only of those with power but also of those who seemingly have none."--Jacket

Subject

Genre/Form

Case studies (form)

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Social History and Case Files Research / Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson -- pt. 1. Reading Case Files: Challenges, Approaches, Methods -- 1. Stories of Their Lives: The Historian and the Capital Case File / Carolyn Strange -- 2. Employment Contracts in Merchant Shipping: An Argument for Social Science History / Eric W. Sager -- 3. On the Case of the Case: The Emergence of the Homosexual as a Case History in Early-Twentieth-Century Ontario / Steven Maynard -- 4. Filing and Defiling: The Organization of the State Security Archives in the Interwar Years / Gregory S. Kealey -- pt. 2. Before the 'Modern' Case File: Church Records and Regulating Lives and Community -- 5. Christian Harmony: Family, Neighbours, and Community in Upper Canadian Church Discipline Records / Lynne Marks -- 6. Elderly Inmates and Caregiving Sisters: Catholic Institutions for the Elderly in Nineteenth-Century Montreal / Bettina Bradbury -- pt. 3. Making 'Good' Men, Punishing 'Bad' Men: 'Community' Standards and the State -- 7. Males, Migrants, and Murder in British Columbia, 1900-1923 / Angus McLaren -- 8. Work Hard and Be Grateful: Native Soldier Settlers in Ontario after the First World War / Robin Brownlie -- 9. Case for Morality: The Quong Wing Files / James W. St. G. Walker -- pt. 4. Experts and Clients: Sites of Contestation -- 10. Ontario Mothers' Allowance Case Files as a Site of Contestation / Margaret Hillyard Little -- 11. Patient Perspectives in Psychiatric Case Files / Lykke de la Cour and Geoffrey Reaume -- 12. Problematic Bodies and Agency: Women Patients in Canada, 1900-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson -- pt. 5. 'Problem' Families: Arenas of Conflict, Targets of Reform -- 13. Uncovering and Reconstructing Family Violence: Ontario Criminal Case Files / Annalee Golz -- 14. Parents, Daughters, and Family Court Intrusions into Working-Class Life / Franca Iacovetta.

ISBN

080204302X
9780802043023
0802081290
9780802081292

LCCN

98229696

OCLC

ocm39070340
39070340
SCSB-8790039

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library