Full bibliography
Constructing Modern Canada: Readings in Post-Confederation History
- Gaffield, Chad (Editor)
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 / Allan Smith --Class struggle and merchant capital: Craftsmen and labourers on the Halifax waterfront, 1850-1900 / Ian McKay -- Confronting [Louis[ Riel and completing the CPR [Canadian Pacific Railway] / D.N. Sprague -- After the fur trade: The aboriginal [Indigenous] labouring class of British Columbia, 1849-1890 / John Lutz -- The Knights of Labor and the Salvation Army: Religion and working-class culture in Ontario, 1882-1890 / Lynne Marks -- Emigration and development in a Quebec rural county / Bruno Ramirez -- Rivers of sawdust: The battle over industrial pollution in Canada, 1865-1903 / R. Peter Gillis. Part 2. Canada's century, 1896-1919. Speaking modern: Language, culture, and hegemony in grocery window displays, 1887-1920 / Keith Walden -- Dan Cranmer's potlatch: Law as coercion, symbol, and rhetoric in British Columbia, 1884-1951 / Tina Loo -- Baseball, class, and community in the Maritime provinces, 1870-1910 / Colin D. Howell -- Race and recruitment in World War I: Enlistment of visible minorities in the Canadian Expeditionary Force / 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 / Cynthia Wright -- For men and girls: The politics of experience of gendered wagework / Joy Parr --"It was a hard life": Class and gender in the work and family rhythms of a railway town, 1920-1950 / Mark Rosenfeld -- Consolidating disparity: The Maritimes and the industrialization of Canada during the Second World War / Ernest R. Forbes -- Family allowances and family autonomy: Quebec families encounter the Welfare State, 1945-1955 / Dominique Marshall. Part 4. Canada in the Global Village. The Canadian North in the circumpolar age / Robert Page -- Life in a fast-food factory / Ester Reiter -- Home dreams: Women and the suburban experiment in Canada, 1945-1960 / Veronica Strong-Boag -- How economics is shaping the constitutional debate in Quebec / Pierre Fortin -- The Prairies as region: The contemporary meaning of an old idea / Gerald Friesen -- "So great a heritage as ours": Immigration and the survival of the Canadian polity / Robert F. Harney -- Where justice lies: Aboriginal rights and wrongs in Temagami / Tony Hall.