With its focus on sites where identities were forged and contested overcrucial decades in Montreal's history, this collectionilluminates the cultural complexity and richness of a modernizing city.Readers will discover the links between identity, place, and historicalmoment as they meet vagrant women, sailors in port, unemployed men ofthe Great Depression, elite families, shopkeepers, and reformers, amongothers. This fascinating study explores the intersections of state,people, and the voluntary sector to elucidate the processes that tookpeople between homes and cemeteries, between families and shops, andonto the streets.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
ISBN-13
9780774811972
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96302511
Product Key Features
Author
Bettina Bradbury, Tamara Myers
Publication Name
Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Montreal
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
1200g
Additional Product Features
Editor
Tamara Myers, Bettina Bradbury
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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