Magda Fahrni

Of Kith and Kin

A History of Families in Canada

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Of Kith and Kin traces the changing forms and meanings of family in the territory that now comprises Canada, from the first contacts between Indigenous peoples and French explorers, traders, missionaries, and settlers in northeastern North America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780199012169
• ISBN-10: 0199012164
• Artikelnr.: 61103173

Autorenporträt

Magda Fahrni is an associate professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she teaches women's history, family history, and the history of twentieth-century Quebec and Canada. She is the author of Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction, which won the Clio-Quebec Prize by the Canadian Historical Association and was a finalist for the John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. She is also the co-author of Canadian Women: A History 3rd edition.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: The Writing of Family History in Canada
* 1: Indigenous Families and French Settler Families, 1500-1750
* 2: Families in British North America, 1750-1840
* 3: The Industrial Revolution in Canada, 1840-1889
* 4: Families and the State, 1840-1914
* 5: Two World Wars, the Great Depression, and a Mixed Social Economy
of Welfare, 1914-1945
* 6: Thirty Glorious Years? Families and the Postwar Settlement,
1945-1975
* 7: Metamorphosis and Persistence: Interrogating the Nuclear Family,
1975-2005
* Conclusion: Twenty-First-Century Families
* Notes
* Selected Works
* Index