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1 online resource (vii, 369 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"On the Case is a timely book intended to provide a forum for discussing the theoretical and methodological issues that arise in connection with the use of case files in research. The book brings together theoretical debates, new research, and new research methods and offers compelling illustrations of the drama, conflict, and power relations that the case file can capture." "This collection of essays features some of Canada's leading social historians. Readers will encounter an impressive array of case files, including psychiatrists' accounts of sexual deviants, employment records of sailors, state welfare and Indian Affairs reports, court records, the patient forms of hospital and asylum doctors, and state security files. While the contributors differ in choice of subject and approach, they share a commitment to the progressive traditions of social history. They recover the voices and actions of people - not only of those with power but also of those who seemingly have none."--Jacket. |
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""Contents""; ""Introduction: Social History and Case Files Research""; ""Part One: Reading Case Files: Challenges, Approaches, Methods""; ""1 Stories of Their Lives: The Historian and the Capital Case File""; ""2 Employment Contracts in Merchant Shipping: An Argument for Social Science History""; ""3 On the Case of the Case: The Emergence of the Homosexual as a Case History in Early-Twentieth-Century Ontario""; ""4 Filing and Defiling: The Organization of the State Security Archives in the Interwar Years"" |
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""Part Two: Before the 'Modern' Case File: Church Records and Regulating Lives and Community""""5 Christian Harmony: Family, Neighbours, and Community in Upper Canadian Church Discipline Records""; ""6 Elderly Inmates and Caregiving Sisters: Catholic Institutions for the Elderly in Nineteenth-Century Montreal""; ""Part Three: Making 'Good' Men, Punishing 'Bad' Men: 'Community' Standards and the State""; ""7 Males, Migrants, and Murder in British Columbia, 1900�1923""; ""8 Work Hard and Be Grateful: Native Soldier Settlers in Ontario after the First World War"" |
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""9 A Case for Morality: The Quong Wing Files""""Part Four: Experts and Clients: Sites of Contestation""; ""10 Ontario Mothers' Allowance Case Files as a Site of Contestation""; ""11 Patient Perspectives in Psychiatric Case Files""; ""12 Problematic Bodies and Agency: Women Patients in Canada, 1900�1950""; ""Part Five: 'Problem' Families: Arenas of Conflict, Targets of Reform""; ""13 Uncovering and Reconstructing Family Violence: Ontario Criminal Case Files""; ""14 Parents, Daughters, and Family Court Intrusions into Working-Class Life"" |
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""15 The 'Grab Bag' Mennonite Refugee Family in Post-War Canada""""Afterword: Telling Stories about Dead People""; ""CONTRIBUTORS"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historical sociology -- Methodology.
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Historical sociology -- Methodology. |
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Historical sociology. |
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Canada -- Social conditions -- Research.
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Canada. |
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Social conditions. |
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Research. |
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Records -- Canada.
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Records. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-
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Mitchinson, Wendy.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: On the case. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1998 9786612028373 (DLC) 98229696 (OCoLC)39070340 |
| ISBN |
9781442678071 (electronic book) |
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1442678070 (electronic book) |
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080204302X (bound) |
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0802081290 (paperback) |
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9780802043023 |
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