Negotiating identity in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal illuminates
the cultural complexity and richness of a modernizing city and its
people. The chapters focus on sites where identities were forged
and contested over critical decades in the city's history. Readers
will discover the link between the production of identity, place,
and historical moment, as they meet vagrant women, sailors in port,
unemployed men of the Great Depression, elite families, widows,
youth, students, shopkeepers, and female smokers as well as
reformers, notaries, social workers, and educational authorities.
Collectively, the contributors explore the intermediate spaces
between the state, the voluntary sector, and the people, probing
the in-between institutions of reform, shelter, education, and
control, and of the processes that took people between homes and
cemeteries, between families and shops, and onto the streets. This
book will be of interest to a wide range of social and cultural
historians, critical geographers, students of gender studies, and
those wanting to know more about the fascinating past of one of
Canada's most lively cities.
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