Cargando…
A nation of immigrants : women, workers, and communities in Canadian history, 1840s-1960s /
This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field. The r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©1998.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Topic 1. Irish in Nineteenth-Century Canada: Class, Culture, and Conflict
- Orange Order and Social Violence in Mid-Nineteenth Century Saint John / Scott W. See
- St. Patrick's Day Parades in Nineteenth-Century Toronto: A Study of Immigrant Adjustment and Elite Control / Michael Cottrell
- Topic 2. American Blacks in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Challenging the Stereotypes
- Black Population of Canada West on the Eve of the American Civil War: A Reassessment Based on the Manuscript Census of 1861 / Michael Wayne
- 'Self-Reliance Is the True Road to Independence': Ideology and the Ex-Slaves in Buxton and Chatham / Howard Law
- Mary Ann Shadd and the Search for Equality / Jason H. Silverman
- Topic 3. Settling the Canadian West: The 'Exotic' Continentals
- Roumanian Pioneer / Anne B. Woywitka
- Ukrainian Impress on the Canadian West / James W. Darlington
- Topic 4. 'Women's Work': Paid Labour, Community-Building, and Protest
- 'I Won't Be a Slave!' Finnish Domestics in Canada, 1911-1930 / Varpu Lindstrom
- Abraham's Daughters: Women, Charity, and Power in the Canadian Jewish Community / Paula J. Draper and Janice B. Karlinsky
- Topic 5. Men without Women: 'Bachelor' Workers and Gendered Identities
- Men without Women: Italian Migrants in Canada, 1885-1930 / Robert F. Harney
- Bachelor Workers / Anthony B. Chan
- Bachelors, Boarding-Houses, and Blind Pigs: Gender Construction in a Multi-Ethnic Mining Camp, 1909-1920 / Nancy M. Forestell
- Topic 6. Demanding Rights, Organizing for Change: Militants and Radicals
- Finnish Radicalism and Labour Activism in the Northern Ontario Woods / Ian Radforth
- Sewing Solidarity: The Eaton's Strike of 1912 / Ruth A. Frager
- Relief Strike: Immigrant Workers and the Great Depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930-1935 / Carmela Patrias
- Topic 7. Encountering the 'Other': Society and State Responses, 1900s-1930s
- Disgrace to 'Christian Canada': Protestant Foreign Missionary Concerns about the Treatment of South Asians in Canada, 1907-1940 / Ruth Compton Brouwer
- State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914-1920: The Impact of the First World War / Gregory S. Kealey
- 'The line must be drawn somewhere': Canada and Jewish Refugees, 1933-1939 / Irving Abella and Harold Troper
- Topic 8. Regulating Minorities in 'Hot' and 'Cold' War Contexts, 1939-1960s
- Ethnic Relations in Wartime: Nationalism and European Minorities in Alberta during the Second World War / Howard Palmer
- Making 'New Canadians': Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families / Franca Iacovetta.