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On the Case : Explorations in Social History.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Heritage SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (378 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442678071
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the CaseDDC classification:
  • 301/.07/22
LOC classification:
  • HM104.O5 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- 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: '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 -- 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 -- 15 The 'Grab Bag' Mennonite Refugee Family in Post-War Canada -- Afterword: Telling Stories about Dead People -- CONTRIBUTORS.
Summary: This collection is the first forum in which the merits and pitfalls of the case-file approach are debated. A timely contribution to current scholarship and debate in social history and related fields.
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Cover -- 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: '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 -- 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 -- 15 The 'Grab Bag' Mennonite Refugee Family in Post-War Canada -- Afterword: Telling Stories about Dead People -- CONTRIBUTORS.

This collection is the first forum in which the merits and pitfalls of the case-file approach are debated. A timely contribution to current scholarship and debate in social history and related fields.

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