Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History, volume 2

Resource type
Authors/contributors
Title
Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History, volume 2
Abstract
[This textbook] is a balanced collection of the best readings on the history of Canada since Confederation. The readings are separated into five parts: Inventing Canada, 1867-1914; Economy and society in the Industrial Age, 1867-1918; Transitional years, Canada 1919-1945; Reinventing Canada, 1945-1975; and Post-Modern Canada. With 13 new readings, the book will challenge and enlighten students by opening a window to Canada's past and to the ever-evolving examination of Canadian history. --Publisher's description
Edition
2nd edition
Place
Toronto
Publisher
Pearson Longman
Date
2008
# of Pages
530 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-321-49416-0
Accessed
8/22/25, 11:56 PM
Notes

Contents: Dispossession vs. accomodation in plaintiff vs. defendent accounts of Métis dispersal from Manitoba, 1870-1881 / D.N. Sprague -- Remoulding the constitution / Christopher Armstrong -- "The cititzenship debates": the 1885 Franchise Act / Veronica Strong-Boag -- Categories and terrains of exclusion: Constructing the "Indian woman" in the early settlement era of western Canada / Sarah Carter -- Eldorado / William R. Morrison -- "Care, control and supervision": Native people in the Canadian Atlantic salmon fishery, 1867-1900 / Bill Parenteau -- Necessary for survival: Women and children's labour on prairie homesteads, 1871-1911 / Sandra Rollings-Magnusson -- Exclusion or solidarity? Vancouver workers confront the "Oriental problem" / Gillian Creese -- North of the colour line: Sleeping car porters and the battle against Jim Crow on Canadian rails, 1880-1920 / Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu -- Unmaking manly smokes: Church, state, governance, and the first anti-smoking campaigns in Montreal, 1892-1914 / Jarrett Rudy -- The roots of modernism: Darwinism and the higher critics / Ramsay Cook -- Remembering Armageddon / Jonathan E. Vance -- Dancing to perdition: Adolescence and leisure in interwar English Canada / Cynthia Comacchio -- "The best man that ever worked the lumber": Aboriginal longshoremen and Burrard Inlet, BC, 1863-1939 / Andrew Parnaby -- Indispensible but not a citizen: The housewife in the Great Depression / Denyse Baillargeon -- Introduction to Myths, memories and lies: Quebec's intelligentsia and the Fascist temptation, 1939-1960 / Esther Delisle -- Staring into the abyss / J.L. Granatstein -- Psychology and the construction of the "normal" family in postwar Canada, 1945-1960 / Mona Gleason -- "I'll wrap the f*#@ Canadian flag around me": A nationalist response to plant shutdown, 1962-1984 / Steven High -- "Character weakness" and "fruit machines": Towards an analysis of the anti-homosexual security campaign in the Canadian civil service / Gary Kinsman -- People in the way: Modernity, environment, and society on the Arrow Lakes / Tina Loo -- A Newfoundland culture? / James Overton -- Allegories and orientations in African-Canadian historiography: the spirit of Africville / James W. St. G. Walker -- "The Rocket": Newspaper coverage of the death of a Québec cultural icon, a Canadian hockey player / Howard Ramos and Kevine Gosine -- "This little piggy went to the prairies": Growth and opposition to the prairie hog industry / Michael J. Broadway -- Political economy of gender, race, and class: Looking at South Asian immigrant women in Canada / Tania Das Gupta -- Rights in the courts, on the water, and in the woods: The aftermath of R. v. Marshall in New Brunswick / Margaret McCallum -- Family policy, child care and social solidarity: The case of Quebec / Jane Jenson -- No exit: Racial profiling and Canada's war against terrorism / Reem Bahdi

Citation
Conrad, M., & Finkel, A. (Eds.). (2008). Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History, volume 2 (2nd edition). Pearson Longman. http://archive.org/details/nationsocietyrea0000unse