Joanna Rickert-Hall

Waterloo You Never Knew

Life on the Margins

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Produktbeschreibung

Social historian Joanna Rickert-Hall dives into the history lived out in the margins of mainstream stories: the ex-slaves, the cholera victims, the grave digging doctor, the séance-loving politician, the rumrunner, and the sorcery-practising healer. This is Waterloo You Never Knew, revealed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781459742901
• ISBN-10: 1459742907
• Artikelnr.: 51265602

Autorenporträt

Joanna Rickert-Hall is a social historian engaged in the unending search for arcane and overlooked histories. She is the 2015 recipient of the Jean Steckle Award for Excellence in heritage education. Joanna lives in Waterloo, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Stephanie Kirkwood Walker
Preface
Part One: Life on the Margins: Cultivating Community
Chapter 1: Waterloo County in Historical Context
Chapter 2: Transient Entertainment: A Menagerie (and Cholera) Come to Town
Chapter 3: The Underground Railroad Makes a Stop in Waterloo County
Part Two: Containment
Chapter 4: Misfits, Mischief, and Misfortune: Fitting in or Falling Out
Chapter 5: The Berlin Gaol: Inmates and Murder Most Deadly
Chapter 6: The Waterloo County House of Industry and Refuge: Case Studies
in Contrast
Chapter 7: Containment for Children: The Orphanages
Part Three: Dodgy Dealings and Risky Business: On the Margins for Profit
Chapter 8: Bootleggers, Joseph Seagram, and Al Capone
Chapter 9: The Dark Side of the Sunny Side of Doing Business: Bodysnatching
for Profit
Part Four: In the Devil's Snare: Beyond the Veil
Chapter 10: Witchcraft, Healing ... and Mennonites?
Chapter 11: Crystal Balls, Spirit Guides, and Psychic Healers: The Prime
Minister, the Artist, and the Nurse-Turned-Psychic
Part Five: History as Storytelling
Chapter 12: The Legend of Oromocto Spring
Epilogue
Timeline
Acknowledgements
Notes
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading
Image Credits
Index