Made modern : science and technology in Canadian history / edited by Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones-Imhotep, Edward, editor.

Adcock, Tina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Canada--History.

Science.

Science--Social aspects--Canada--History.

Technology--Canada--History.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects--Canada--History.

Science and civilization.

Technology and civilization.

Technological innovations--Canada--History.

Technological innovations.

History.

Technology--Social aspects.

Science--Social aspects.

Canada.

Physical Description:

xii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2018]

Summary:

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History draws together leading scholars from a wide range of fields to enrich our understanding of history inside and outside Canada's borders. The book's chapters examine how science and technology have allowed Canadians to imagine and reinvent themselves as modern. Focusing on topics including exploration, scientific rationality, the occult, medical instruments, patents, communication, and infrastructure, the contributors situate Canadian scientific and technological developments within larger national and transnational contexts. The first major collection of its kind in thirty years, Made Modern explores the place of science and technology in shaping Canadians' experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.

Contents:

Part 1 Bodies

1 Civilizing the Natives: Richard King and His Ethnographic Writings on Indigenous Northerners p. 39 / Efram Sera-Shriar

2 Scientist Tourist Sportsman Spy: Boundary-Work and the Putnam Eastern Arctic Expeditions p. 60 / Tina Adcock

3 Nature's Tonic: Electric Medicine in Urban Canada, 1880-1920 p. 84 / Dorotea Gucciardo

4 Cosmic Moderns: Re-Enchanting the Body in Canada's Atomic Age, 1931-51 p. 104 / Beth A. Robertson

Part 2 Technologies

5 The Second Industrial Revolution in Canadian History p. 125 / James Hull

6 Mysteries of the New Phone Explained: Introducing Dial Telephones and Automatic Service to Bell Canada Subscribers in the 1920s p. 143 / Jan Hadlaw

7 Small Science: Trained Acquaintance and the One-Man Research Team p. 166 / David Theodore

8 Paris-Montreal-Babylon: The Modernist Genealogies of Gerald Bull p. 185 / Edward Jones-Imhotep

9 Percy Schmeiser, Roundup Ready® Canola, and Canadian Agricultural Modernity p. 216 / Eda Kranakis

Part 3 Environments

10 Landscapes of Science in Canada: Modernity and Disruption p. 251 / Stephen Bocking

11 "For Canada and for Science": Transnational Modernity and the Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1918 p. 279 / Andrew Stuhl

12 North Stars and Sun Destinations: Time, Space, and Nation at Trans Canada Air Lines/Air Canada, 1947-70 p. 305 / Blair Stein

13 Negotiating High Modernism: The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project p. 326 / Daniel Macfarlane.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Made modern.:

ISBN:

0774837233

9780774837231

OCLC:

1030759210