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The Dominion of Youth

Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950

By: Cynthia Comacchio

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The Dominion of Youth

Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950

By: Cynthia Comacchio

Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. Although adolescence was by no means a “discovery” of the early twentieth century, it did assume an identifiably modern form during the years between the Great War and 1950. The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950 captures what it meant for young Canadians to inhabit this liminal stage of life within the context of a young nation caught up in the self-formation and historic transformation that would make modern Canada. Because the young at this time were seen paradoxically as both the hope of the nation and the source of its possible degeneration, new policies and institutions were developed to deal with the “problem of youth.” This history considers how young Canadians made the transition to adulthood during a period that was “developmental”—both for youth and for a nation also working toward individuation. During the years considered here, those who occupied this “dominion” of youth would see their experiences more clearly demarcated by generation and culture than ever before. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio offers the first detailed study of adolescence in early-twentieth-century Canada and demonstrates how young Canadians of the period became the nation’s first modern teenagers.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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155458079X

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9781554580798

Children in English-Canadian Society

Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus

By: Neil Sutherland,Cynthia Comacchio

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Children in English-Canadian Society

Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus

By: Neil Sutherland,Cynthia Comacchio

“So often a long-awaited book is disappointing. Happily such is not the case with Sutherland’s masterpiece.” Robert M. Stamp, University of Calgary, in The Canadian Historical Review “Sutherland’s work is destined to be a landmark in Canadian history, both as a first in its particular field and as a standard reference text.” J. Stewart Hardy, University of Alberta, in Alberta Journal of Educational Research Such were the reviewers’ comments when Neil Sutherland’s groundbreaking book was first published. Now reissued in Wilfrid Laurier University Press’s new series “Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada,” with a new introduction by series editor Cynthia Comacchio, this book remains relevant today. In the late nineteenth century a new generation of reformers committed itself to a program of social improvement based on the more effective upbringing of all children. In Children in English-Canadian Society, Neil Sutherland examines, with a keen eye, the growth of the public health movement and its various efforts at improving the health of children.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889205892

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9780889205895

Nations are Built of Babies

Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

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Nations are Built of Babies

Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in Canadian society, the medical profession tackled the "national tragedy" of infant and maternal mortality by advocating "scientific motherhood." Canadian mothers were believed to be handicapped by an ignorance that could be remedied only through expert tutoring and supervision of child-rearing duties. Working within a Marxist-feminist framework, Cynthia Comacchio demonstrates that the campaign was part of a conscious plan to modernize Canadian families to meet the ideological imperatives of industrial capitalism. Doctors reasoned that if infants could be saved and their physical, mental, and moral health regulated, the benefits in socio-economic terms would more than offset any individual or state investment.

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358

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773509917

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9780773509917

The Infinite Bonds of Family

Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

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The Infinite Bonds of Family

Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada, showing how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war.

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196

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University of Toronto Press

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0802079296

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9780802079299

Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

From Ancient Times to the Present

By: Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik

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Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

From Ancient Times to the Present

By: Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik

Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic

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2481

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Routledge

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1317471520

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9781317471523

The Infinite Bonds of Family

Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

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The Infinite Bonds of Family

Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

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180

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Themes in Canadian Social Hist

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0802009646

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9780802009647

The Dominion of Youth

Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950

By: Cynthia Comacchio

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Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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Healing the World's Children

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century

By: Cynthia Comacchio,Janet Golden,George Weisz

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Healing the World's Children

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century

By: Cynthia Comacchio,Janet Golden,George Weisz

Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077357767X

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9780773577671

Children in English-Canadian Society

Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus

By: Neil Sutherland,Cynthia Comacchio

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Children in English-Canadian Society

Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus

By: Neil Sutherland,Cynthia Comacchio

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Nations Are Built of Babies

Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

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Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940

By: Cynthia R. Comacchio

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The Dominion of Youth

The Dominion of Youth

Children in English-Canadian Society

Children in English-Canadian Society

Nations are Built of Babies

Nations are Built of Babies

The Infinite Bonds of Family

The Infinite Bonds of Family

Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

The Infinite Bonds of Family

The Infinite Bonds of Family

The Dominion of Youth

The Dominion of Youth

Healing the World's Children

Healing the World's Children

Children in English-Canadian Society

Children in English-Canadian Society

Nations Are Built of Babies

Nations Are Built of Babies

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