Negotiating identities in 19th and 20th century Montreal / by the Montreal History Group ; edited by Bettina Bradbury and Tamara Myers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montreal History Group, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Bradbury, Bettina, 1949-

Myers, Tamara, 1964-

Montreal History Group.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Quebec (Province)--Montreal--History.

Social change.

Identity (Psychology)--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.

Identity (Psychology).

Social classes--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.

Social classes.

Social role--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.

Social role.

Montréal (Québec)--Social conditions--19th century.

Montréal (Québec).

Montréal (Québec)--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Negotiating identities in nineteenth and twentieth century Montreal

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Negotiating Identities in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal illuminates the cultural complexity and richness of a modernizing city and its people. The chapters focus on sites where identities were forged and contested over crucial decades in Montreal's history. Readers will discover the links between identity, place, and historical moment as they meet vagrant women, sailors in port, unemployed men of the Great Depression, elite families, shopkeepers, reformers, notaries, and social workers, among others. This is a fascinating study that explores the intersections of state, people, and the voluntary sector to elucidate the processes that took people between homes and cemeteries, between families and shops, and onto the streets. This book will be of interest to a wide range of social and cultural historians, critical geographers, students of gender studies, and those wanting to know more about the fascinating past of one of Canada's most lively cities.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Montreal; Part 1: Homes and Homelessness; Part 2: Death, Burial, and Widowhood; Part 3: Youth, Institutions, and Identities; Part 4: Selling and Consumption; Contributors; Index; 2 Bonds of Friendship, Kinship, and Community: Gender, Homelessness, and Mutual Aid in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal; 3 Saving the Union's Jack: The Montreal Sailors' Institute and the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98

4 Keeping Men Out of "Public or Semi-Public" Places: The Montreal Day Shelter for Unemployed Men, 1931-345 Death, Burial, and Protestant Identity in an Elite Family: The Montreal McCords; 6 Widows Negotiate the Law: The First Year of Widowhood in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal; 7 The Ideal Education to Construct an Ideal World: The Dunham Ladies' College and the Anglican Elite of the Montreal Diocese, 1860-1913; 8 On Probation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Women's Antidelinquency Work in Interwar Montreal

9 From Tomorrow's Elite to Young Intellectual Workers: The Search for Identity among Montreal University Students, 1900-5810 "Behind the Store": Montreal Shopkeeping Families between the Wars; 11 A Ritual Transformed: Women Smokers in Montreal, 1888-1950; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-74083-0

9786612740831

0-7748-5174-0

OCLC:

923441636

Publisher Number:

9780774811972