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The Challenge of modernity : a reader on post-Confederation Canada
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- ISBN: 0075511509 :
- ISBN: 9780075511502
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Physical Description:
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xxvi, 485 p. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, c1992.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Donation ; 2006/10. |
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| Subject: | Altkarte Canada -- Social conditions -- 1867- Canada -- History -- 1867- Canada -- Conditions sociales -- 1867- Canada -- Histoire -- 1867- Kanada |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Vancouver Island University Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| VIU Library - Cowichan Campus | FC 85 C53 1992 (Text) | M011179961 | STACKS | Volume hold | Available | - |
