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For Patients of Moderate Means

A Social History of the Voluntary Public General Hospital in Canada, 1890-1950

By: David Paul Gagan,Rosemary Ruth Gagan

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For Patients of Moderate Means

A Social History of the Voluntary Public General Hospital in Canada, 1890-1950

By: David Paul Gagan,Rosemary Ruth Gagan

Between 1890 and 1910 scientific and technological innovation transformed the custodial Victorian charity hospital for the sick poor into the primary source of effective acute medical care for all members of society. For the next half century hospitals coped with relentlessly escalating demands for accessibility by both medical indigents and a new clientele of patients able and willing to pay for hospitalization. With limited statutory revenues and unpredictable voluntary support, hospitals taxed paying patients through ever-increasing user fees, offering in return privacy, comfort, service, and medical attendance in private and semi-private wards that were more appealing to middle-class patients than the stark and grudging service of the public wards.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773524363

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9780773524361

Population Persistence and Migration in Rural New York, 1855-1860

By: David Paul Davenport

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Population Persistence and Migration in Rural New York, 1855-1860

By: David Paul Davenport

This title, first published in 1989, explores the population change in America during the 1800s by closely examining frontier settlement, urbanisation, and depopulation and emigration from rural areas of the north-eastern United States. Population Persistence and Migration in Rural New York, 1855-1860 will be of interest to students of history and human geography.

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176

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Routledge

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1351695509

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Particular Condition in Life

Self-Employment and Social Mobility in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario

By: David G. Burley

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Particular Condition in Life

Self-Employment and Social Mobility in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario

By: David G. Burley

David Burley offers a new perspective on industrial capitalism and class formation in Canada by focusing on the rise of the bourgeoisie rather than the rise of the working class. Using the town of Brantford, Ontario, as his model, Burley examines how industrialization brought about a decline in self-employment (the measure of a man's success according to Victorian values) and a restructuring of traditional concepts of wealth, credit and debt, and success and failure.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773511997

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9780773511996

Hopeful Travellers

Families, Land, and Social Change in Mid-Victorian Peel County, Canada West

By: David Gagan

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Hopeful Travellers

Families, Land, and Social Change in Mid-Victorian Peel County, Canada West

By: David Gagan

In this exploration of the nature of social reality in a mid-nineteenth-century Upper Canadian farming community, Professor Gagan employs the techniques of historical demography to reconstruct the population of mid-Victorian Peel County – specifically the histories of those families who occupied the county between 1845 and 1875. The evidence will be familiar to anyone who has tried to trace nineteenth-century Canadian family roots, but in this analysis the material is used to answer a broad range of questions related to the central problems of land availability and social change. The author argues that in Peel County, as in the rest of Upper Canada, immigration, settlement, and population growth rapidly changed the previously agrarian frontiers of cheap and abundant farm land into mature agricultural communities. Patterns of inheritance, the timing of family formation, the size and structure of families, the life-cycle experiences of men, women, and children, chances for social betterment, and patterns of vocational and geographical mobility were all linked to the problem of land availability and all underwent subtle changes as rural society attempted to adjust to the new realities of life in the clearings. This book is both s significant contribution to the social history of Ontario and to the growing corpus of comparative, international scholarship on the history of the family.

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335

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University of Toronto Press

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1487597355

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The Limits of Labour

Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929

By: David Bright

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The Limits of Labour

Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929

By: David Bright

The cover photo exemplifies the working men of the pre-World War I frontier outpost of Calgary, prior to its transformation into an industrial metropolis. Bright (history, U. of Calgary and Mount Royal College, Calgary) challenges the view of Calgary as a prewar center of labor conservatism, and demonstrates how the labor movement of the 1920s set the stage for Social Credit in failing to meet the challenges of the Great Depression. His analysis is organized into two sections by theme and period: class formation, 1883-1913; and the labor movement, 1913-29. Canadian card order no. C98-910609-8. Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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UBC Press

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0774806974

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9780774806978

Places of Last Resort

The Expansion of the Farm Frontier into the Boreal Forest in Canada, c. 1910-1940

By: J. David Wood

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Places of Last Resort

The Expansion of the Farm Frontier into the Boreal Forest in Canada, c. 1910-1940

By: J. David Wood

Northerly locations were desperately sought out after more accessible land further south was taken up. Wood identifies the demographic characteristics of the surging population of land-seekers, showing how some aspects echoed those of earlier settlers. The northern settlers of the interwar years grappled with demanding conditions, which required new adaptations. They were supported in their efforts by politicians, bureaucrats, and religious leaders who had less than innocent reasons for endorsing what were questionable settlement experiments in unopened or abandoned areas. The book includes a series of gripping case studies to illustrate both the face of failure and what appear to have been the ingredients for success in marginal areas.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773578099

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9780773578098

Making Ontario

Agricultural Colonization and Landscape Re-Creation Before the Railway

By: John David Wood

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Making Ontario

Agricultural Colonization and Landscape Re-Creation Before the Railway

By: John David Wood

The colony that became Ontario arose almost spontaneously out of the confusion and uncertainty following the American Revolution, as a quickly chosen refuge for some 10,000 Loyalists who had to leave their former homes. After the War of 1812 settlers began to spread throughout the inter-lake peninsula that was to become southern Ontario and by the middle of the nineteenth century expansion had led to a diversifying agriculture and an increasingly open farming landscape that replaced a mature forest ecosystem. The scale of the change from forest to cropland profoundly affected what had been for many decades a rich environment for life forms, from large herbivores down to microscopic creatures. In Making Ontario David Wood shows that the most effective agent of change in the first century of Ontario's development was not the locomotive but settlers' attempts to change the forest into agricultural land. Wood traces the various threads that went into creating a successful farming colony while documenting the sacrifice of the forest ecosystem to the demands of progress, progress that prepared the ground for the railway. Making Ontario provides a detailed focus on environmental modification at a time of great changes. It is liberally illustrated with analytical maps based on archival research. J. David Wood is professor of geography and urban studies at Atkinson College, York University.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773520481

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9780773520486

From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean

The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa

By: Sebouh David Aslanian

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From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean

The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa

By: Sebouh David Aslanian

Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world—both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires—astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated European mercantile expansion during the same period. This book brings to light for the first time the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. Among other topics, it explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants, and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities.

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388

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Univ of California Press

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0520282175

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9780520282179

Health and Canadian Society

Sociological Perspectives

By: David Coburn,Carl D'Arcy,George Murray Torrance

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Health and Canadian Society

Sociological Perspectives

By: David Coburn,Carl D'Arcy,George Murray Torrance

Health and Canadian Society provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between health, health care, and Canadian society. It is a wide-ranging volume that moves from personal and micro concerns to a more macro and institutional focus. It includes chapters of a descriptive nature and others with a more explanatory intent. They have been selected from the major journals or have been expressly written for this book. Ninety-five percent of the contributions are new to this edition. The chapters and the studies reported on are methodologically diverse, ranging from ethnographic studies to statistical analyses of data from large national surveys. Though the chapters are written by anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, and physicians, as well as sociologists, they all have a sociological "turn." Recognized as the standard textbook on the sociology of health in Canada, Health and Canadian Society is an essential reference for sociologists, health care providers, health administrators, and policy planners.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802080529

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9780802080523

The Ottomans

Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

By: Marc David Baer

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The Ottomans

Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

By: Marc David Baer

This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s heart. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War. The Ottomans vividly reveals the dynasty’s full history and its enduring impact on Europe and the world.

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Basic Books

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1541673778

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9781541673779

The Geology of Australia

By: Robert Henderson,David Johnson

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The Geology of Australia

By: Robert Henderson,David Johnson

This book documents the rich and spectacular heritage of the Australian continent over the last 4400 million years. Now in its third edition, The Geology of Australia provides a comprehensive overview of Australia's geology, landscapes and Earth resources. Beginning with the Precambrian rocks that hold clues to the origins of life and the development of an oxygenated atmosphere, it goes on to cover the warm seas, volcanism and episodes of mountain building that formed the eastern third of the Australian continent. This illuminating history details the breakup of the supercontinents Rodinia and Gondwana, the times of previous glaciations, the development of climates and landscapes in modern Australia, and the creation of the continental shelves and coastlines. This third edition features two new chapters on geological time and Paleozoic orogenic rock systems and mountain building, and new and updated illustrations and full-colour images.

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393

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Cambridge University Press

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1316692493

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9781316692493

Contemporary Business

By: Louis E. Boone,David L. Kurtz,Daniel Pfaltzgraf

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Contemporary Business

By: Louis E. Boone,David L. Kurtz,Daniel Pfaltzgraf

Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos continues to lead a company that has gone from clever garage-based startup to global e-commerce and technology powerhouse. His journey in transforming the budding company focused simply on selling books over the internet to one of the world's most influential companies highlights two of the greatest forces that are influencing business today: globalization and technology. Innovative companies like Amazon contribute greatly to the national and global economy. A growing economy, one with increased production of goods and services over time, also yields income for its business owners and their employees. Businesses are how we make and share new wealth through things like products, services, pay for employees, and taxes that go to the government at different levels. A country depends on the wealth its businesses generate, from giants like the Walt Disney Company, to nimble, fast-growing, online startups like Airbnb, and even local mom-and-pop diners where you live. What all these companies and many others share is a creative approach to meeting society's needs and wants"--

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610

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394274416

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9781394274413

Business Torts Litigation

By: Ann E. Georgehead,David A. Soley,Robert Y. Gwin

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Business Torts Litigation

By: Ann E. Georgehead,David A. Soley,Robert Y. Gwin

A litigator's guide to current business torts law, this book provides a concise review of - or introduction to - the important issues, general rules, and major exceptions to the rules in each of the major business torts subjects areas, along with practical guidance through the situations you are likely to encounter in assessing, preparing and presenting a case."--BOOK JACKET.

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American Bar Association

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1590314840

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Early Modernity and Mobility

Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800

By: Sebouh David Aslanian

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Early Modernity and Mobility

Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800

By: Sebouh David Aslanian

A history of the continent-spanning Armenian print tradition in the early modern period Early Modernity and Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, when the first Armenian printed codex appeared in Venice, to the end of the early modern period in 1800, Armenian presses operated in nineteen locations across the Armenian diaspora. Linking far-flung locations in Amsterdam, Livorno, Marseille, Saint Petersburg, and Astrakhan to New Julfa, Madras, and Calcutta, Armenian presses published a thousand editions with more than half a million printed volumes in Armenian script. Drawing on extensive archival research, Sebouh David Aslanian explores why certain books were published at certain times, how books were sold across the diaspora, who read them, and how the printed word helped fashion a new collective identity for early modern Armenians. In examining the Armenian print tradition Aslanian tells a larger story about the making of the diaspora itself. Arguing that “confessionalism” and the hardening of boundaries between the Armenian and Roman churches was the “driving engine” of Armenian book history, Aslanian makes a revisionist contribution to the early modern origins of Armenian nationalism.

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Yale University Press

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0300271212

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9780300271218

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For Patients of Moderate Means

For Patients of Moderate Means

Population Persistence and Migration in Rural New York, 1855-1860

Population Persistence and Migration in Rural New York, 1855-1860

Particular Condition in Life

Particular Condition in Life

Hopeful Travellers

Hopeful Travellers

The Limits of Labour

The Limits of Labour

Places of Last Resort

Places of Last Resort

Making Ontario

Making Ontario

From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean

From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean

Health and Canadian Society

Health and Canadian Society

The Ottomans

The Ottomans

The Geology of Australia

The Geology of Australia

Contemporary Business

Contemporary Business

Business Torts Litigation

Business Torts Litigation

Early Modernity and Mobility

Early Modernity and Mobility

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