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  • Historical Identities

    The Professoriate in Canada

    Edición de E. Lisa Panayotidis, Paul Stortz ...
    Series series Heritage
    As intellectual engines of the university, professors hold considerable authority and play an important role in society. By nature of their occupation, they are agents of intellectual culture in Canada.Historical Identities is a new collection of essays examining the history of the professoriate in Canada. Framing the volume with the question, 'What was it like to be a professor?' editors Paul ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970

    International Perspectives

    Edición de E. Lisa Panayotidis, Paul Stortz ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    This edited collection illustrates the way in which women’s experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative analyses among regions and countries) within regional, national, trans-national, and international contexts.The contributors integrally advance ... Leer más

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  • Cultures, Communities, and Conflict

    Histories of Canadian Universities and War

    Cultures, Communities, and Conflict offers provocative, cutting-edge perspectives on the history of English-Canadian universities and war in the twentieth century. The contributors explore how universities contributed not only to Canadian war efforts, but to forging multiple understandings of intellectualism, academia, and community within an evolving Canadian nation.Contributing to the social, ... Leer más

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  • The Frontier of Patriotism

    Alberta and the First World War

    Series Libro 6 - Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
    With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and sacrifices of those who supported those soldiers, and the war effort in general, back at home. The ... Leer más

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  • Breadwinning Daughters

    Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939

    As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley ... Leer más

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  • Respectable Citizens

    Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression

    High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship ... Leer más

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  • Moving Beyond Borders

    A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora

    de Karen Flynn ...
    Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era nurses who were born in Canada or who immigrated from the Caribbean either through Britain or directly to Canada. Karen Flynn examines the shaping of these women's stories from their childhoods through to their roles as professionals and community ... Leer más

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  • The English in Love

    The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... Leer más

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  • Black, White and Exempt

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives under Exemption

    Edición de Lucinda Aberdeen, Jennifer Jones ...
    In 1957, Ella Simon of Purfleet mission near Taree, New South Wales, applied for and was granted a certificate of exemption. Exemption gave her legal freedoms denied to other Indigenous Australians at that time: she could travel freely, open a bank account, and live and work where she wanted. In the eyes of the law she became a non-Aboriginal, but in return she could not associate with other ... Leer más

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  • Getting Equal

    The history of Australian feminism

    de Marilyn Lake ...
    What woman today would accept losing her job or her nationality on marriage? What mother would accept that she had no custody rights to her children? Who would deny women the right to equal pay and economic independence?Women today enjoy freedoms unimagined by their mothers and grandmothers - the result of over 100 years of feminist activism in this country.Getting Equal is the first full-length ... Leer más

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  • Fantastic Dreaming

    The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

    de Jane Lydon ...
    Series series Worlds of Archaeology
    Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals that the Moravian missionaries' attempts to "civilize" the Wergaia-speaking people of ... Leer más

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  • Guiding Modern Girls

    Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s

    Across the British Empire and the world, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of unprecedented social and cultural change. Girls and young women were at the heart of many of these shifts, which included the aftermath of the First World War, the enfranchisement of women, and the rise of the flapper or “Modern Girl.” Out of this milieu, the Girl Guide movement emerged as a response to popular concerns ... Leer más

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