History Post-confederation (1867-)
Prairie Metropolis
New Essays on Winnipeg Social History
- Publisher
- University of Manitoba Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2009
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-), Social History
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780887559976
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $24.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887557132
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, Winnipeg was the fastest-growing city in North America. But its days as a diverse and culturally rich metropolis did not end when the boom collapsed. Prairie Metropolis brings together some of the best new graduate research on the history of Winnipeg and makes a groundbreaking contribution to the history of the city between 1900 and the 1980s. The essays in this collection explore the development of social institutions such as the city’s police force, juvenile court, health care institutions, volunteer organizations, and cultural centres. They offer critical analyses on ethnic, gender, and class inequality and conflict, while placing Winnipeg’s experiences in national and international contexts.
About the authors
Esyllt W. Jones lives and teaches history in Winnipeg. She is the author of the award-winning Influenza 1918: Death, Disease and Struggle in Winnipeg, and is currently working on a reinterpretation of the origins of medicare in Canada.
Gerald Friesen is the author of The Canadian Prairies, the most influential and widely read history of western Canada, and A Guide to Manitoba Local History (with Barry Potyondi). His articles have been published in newspapers, journals, and books, and he has lectured internationally. Currently professor of history at the University of Manitoba, he was the first Seagram Chair at the Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University (1996-97).
Awards
- Winner, Carol Shields City of Winnipeg Book Award
Other titles by Esyllt W. Jones
Medicare's Histories
Origins, Omissions, and Opportunities in Canada
Place and Replace
Essays on Western Canada
Imagining Winnipeg
History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote
Epidemic Encounters
Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20
Influenza 1918
Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg
Other titles by Gerald Friesen
Canadian Prairies:
A History
The Canadian Prairies
A History
Canadians and Their Pasts
The Pasts Collective
Thinkers and Dreamers
Historical Essays in Honour of Carl Berger
Immigrants in Prairie Cities
Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada
Rural Life
Portraits of the Prairie Town, 1946
Mac Runciman
A Life in the Grain Trade
Citizens and Nation
An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
River Road
Essays on Manitoba and Prairie History
