Patterns of the Past

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Dundurn Press Limited, Toronto, 1988

155002034X / 9781550020342

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Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. A collection of historical articles published on the occasion of the centenary of the Ontario Historical Society. SUB-TITLE: Interpreting Ontario's History. CONTENTS: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; The Mystery of the Neutral Indians - by Abraham Rotstein; Rural Credit and Rural Development in Upper Canada, 1790 to 1850 - by Douglas McCalla; Population Change on an Agricultural Frontier: Upper Canada 1796 to 1841 - by J. David Wood; Re-inventing Upper Canada: American Immigrants, Upper Canadian History, English Law, and the Alien Question - by Paul Romney; The Meaning of Misadventure: The Baptiste Creek Railway Disaster of 1854 and its aftermath - by Paul Craven; Beyond Superior: Ontario's New-Found Land - by Elizabeth Arthur; Finding the Right Size: Markets and Competition in Mid- and Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario - by Ben Forster; Streetscape and Society: The Changing Built Environment of King Street, Toronto - by Gunter Gad and Deryck W. Holdsworth; "A Terror to Evil-Doers": The central Prison and the "Criminal Class" in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario - by Peter Oliver; Science and the State in Ontario: The British Connection or North American Patterns? - by Richard A. Jarrell; From Modern Babylon to a City upon a Hill: The Toronto Social Survey Commission of 1915 and the Search for Sexual Order in the City - by Carolyn Strange; Ontario Workers and the Decline of Labourism - by James Naylor; The Jewish Experience in Ontario to 1960 - by Gerald Tulchinsky; The Battle for Wilderness in Ontario: Saving Quetico-Superior, 1927 to 1960 - by Gerald Killan and George Warecki; The Children's War: The Mobilization of Ontario Youth During the Second World War - by Charles M. Johnston; Society and Culture in Rural and Small-Town Ontario: Alice Munro's Testimony on the Last Forty Years - by John Weaver; The Editors and Contributors. SYNOPSIS: Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ontario Historical Society. Organized on 4 Sept 1888 as "the Pioneer Association of Ontario", the Society adopted its current name in 1898. Its objectives, for a century, have been to promote and develop the study of Ontario's past. The purpose of this book is both to commemorate and to carry on that worthy tradition. Introduced by Ian Wilson, Archivist of Ontario, and edited by Roger Hall, William Westfall and Laurel Sefton MacDowell, this distinctive volume is a landmark not only in the Society's history but in the province's historiography. Eighteen scholars have pooled their talents to fashion a volume of fresh interpretive essays that chronicle and analyse the whole scope of Ontario's rich and varied past. New light is thrown on our understanding of early native peoples, rural life in Upper Canada, the opening of the North, the impact of railways, and the growth of businesses and institutions. And there is much social study here too, especially of the new roles for women in industrial society, of working class experience, of ethnic groups, and of children in our society's past. As well, there are innovative treatments of the conservation movement, of science's role in provincial society, and of the relationship between society and culture in small towns. Anyone with an interesting the history of Canada's most populous province will find much in this comprehensive collection. Roger Hall is a member of the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. William Westfall is Chair, Department of History, Atkinson College, York University. Laurel Sefton MacDowell is in the Department of History, Erindale College, University of Toronto. Hall and Westfall are former Editors of Ontario History, the quarterly journal of the Ontario Historical Society; MacDowell is the current Editor. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

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Titel
Patterns of the Past
Autor
Hall, Roger; Westfall, William and MacDowell, Laurel Sefton (Edited by)
Verlag
Dundurn Press Limited, Toronto
Erscheinungsjahr
1988
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Very Good
Einband
Trade Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
155002034X
ISBN-13
9781550020342
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