Home, work, and play : situating Canadian social history, 1840-1980 / edited by James Opp and John C. Walsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walsh, John C., 1969-

Opp, James William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conditions.

Canada--Social conditions--20th century.

Canada.

Canada--Social conditions--19th century.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiv, 361 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Home, Work, and Play presents a collection of recent work in Canadian social history. The essays have been specifically chosen to offer insight into the important changes that have occurred within the field over the past ten years while the unique organization of home, work, and play helps to provide an organizational structure that students can manage and learn from. Underlying the three sections are the threads of class, race and gender, which interweave and unify the collection. This is a reader designed as a core text for courses in Canadian social history. The essays are organized around the two traditional social history themes of home and work, and around a newer theme, play, which encompasses leisure, sports, consumerism, and sexuality. The collection of 22 essays will be supplemented by three visual resources, which will contain photographs, advertisements, architectural floor plans, and cartoons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195422708

OCLC:

60833997