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This article reviews the book, "Matters of Loyalty: The Buells of Brockville, 1830-1850," by Ian MacPherson.
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...This volume presents a selection of scholarly articles designed to introduce the student to currents of social change and development in Canada from 1760 to 1849. With contributions by such respected academic writers as Harold Adams Innis, Judith Fingard, and Sylvia Van Kirk, it provides valuable insights into the role of the working class, violence and protest, class conflicts, and the economic structure of a newly developing nation. --Publisher's description
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[This book] is the fourth of a five-volume series of readers designed to present an overview of Canada's social history, encompassing such topics as economic development, social structure, politics, religion, work and workers, and the changing role of women. In this volume the editors have assembled a series of scholarly essays examining such historic developments as government support of big business and the concentration of capital, the decline of craft unionism in Hamilton factories, the business impetus behind municipal reform, and the circumstances for working women in the 1920s. Articles such as Donald Avery's account of labour exploitation in the hiring of "foreign" navvies to build railroads in Western Canada and Don Macgillivray's analysis of state intervention and the use of troops in strikes among Cape Breton miners and steel workers in the 1920s highlight the issues and controversies which makes this one of the most telling chapters of Canada's social history. --Publisher's description
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[This book] is the last of a 5-volume series of readers designed to present an overview of Canada's social history, encompassing such topics as economic development, social structure, protest and violence, social control, work and workers, and the changing role of women. In this volume the editors have commissioned a collection of original essays designed to provide a scholarly response to the vital questions: "Who are we as a people? How did we become what we are?" The extent and influence of foreign ownership in the post-war world is examined by Paul Phillips and Stephen Watson. David Wolfe chronicles the emergence of the welfare state after the war and its recent decline. Michael Behiels explores the ideological tensions among federalist, nationalist, and socialist intellectuals in Quebec and Canada. Ruther Pierson and Marjorie Cohen discuss sexual bias in federal manpower policies in depression, war, and reconstruction. The struggles of labour, management, and government are examined in articles by Wayne Robert and John Bullen, and by Wallace Clement. And the education system as a instrument of social control is the subject of Paul Axelrod's essay. --Publisher's description
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...This volume presents a series of scholarly articles which range from an essay by Gregory Kealey on Toronto's Industrial Revolution in the last half of the nineteenth century to a fascinating study by Wendy Mitchener of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, "A Study of Nineteenth-Century Feminism." Also included are examinations of the working class, violence and protest, social structure and government encouragement of industrial development from 1849 to 1896. --Publisher's description
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...As an introduction to the birth and growth of society in New France, the scholarly articles contained in the volume draw from the translated writings of Marcel Trudel and Fernand Ouellet, two of French Canada's leading historians. As well, contributions from Bruce Trigger and Calvin Martin look at the impact of European society on the culture of Native peoples. Together with articles on land use and labour, this informative volume offers a discerning view of the earliest of French Canada - the life of the habitant, the raucous beginning of the first craft brotherhoods, the movement toward a new social order which early European inhabitants took to with a "missionary zeal." By exploring the social roots of modern day Quebec [the book] sheds new light on our understanding of French Canada. --Publisher's description
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This volume presents a selection of scholarly articles designed to introduce the student to the currents of social change and development in Canada from 1760 to 1849. With contributions by such respected academic writers as Harold Adams Innis, Judith Fingard, and Sylvia Van Kirk, it provides valuable insights into the role of the working class, violence and protest, class conflicts, and the economic structure of a newly developing nation. --Publisher's description on book cover
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