On the Case : : Explorations in Social History /

On the Case : : Explorations in Social History / / ed. by Franca Iacovetta, Wendy Mitchinson.

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Case files, records from all kinds of social, medical, governmental, military, and other agencies, become available to researchers once confidentiality is no longer in question. Such records are an important source for scholars in social history and related fields, providing insight not only into th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Bradbury, Bettina,
Brownlie, Robin,
Cour, Lykke De La,
Dubinsky, Karen,
Epp, Marlene,
Golz, Annalee,
Iacovetta, Franca,
Kealey, Gregory S.,
Little, Margaret Hillyard,
Marks, Lynne,
Maynard, Steven,
McLaren, Angus,
Mitchinson, Wendy,
Reaume, Geoffrey,
Sager, Eric W.,
Strange, Carolyn,
Walker, James W. St.G.,
HerausgeberIn:
Iacovetta, Franca,
Mitchinson, Wendy,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1998
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • 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: 'Community9 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
  • 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 Psychiatrie 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
  • 15. The 'Grab Bag' Mennonite Refugee Family in Post-War Canada
  • Afterword. Telling Stories about Dead People
  • Contributors

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