Made Modern
Editat de Edward Jones-Imhotep, Tina Adcocken Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780774837248
ISBN-10: 0774837241
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 153 x 228 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: University of British Columbia Press
ISBN-10: 0774837241
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 153 x 228 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: University of British Columbia Press
Cuprins
Introduction: Science, Technology, and the Modern in Canada / Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock
Part 1: Bodies
1 Civilizing the Natives: Richard King and His Ethnographic Writings on Indigenous Northerners / Efram Sera-Shriar
2 Scientist Tourist Sportsman Spy: Boundary-Work and the Putnam Eastern Arctic Expeditions / Tina Adcock
3 Nature’s Tonic: Electric Medicine in Urban Canada, 1880–1920 / Dorotea Gucciardo
4 Cosmic Moderns: Re-Enchanting the Body in Canada’s Atomic Age, 1931–51 / Beth A. Robertson
Part 2: Technologies
5 The Second Industrial Revolution in Canadian History / James Hull
6 Mysteries of the New Phone Explained: Introducing Dial Telephones and Automatic Service to Bell Canada Subscribers in the 1920s / Jan Hadlaw
7 Small Science: Trained Acquaintance and the One-Man Research Team / David Theodore
8 Paris–Montreal–Babylon: The Modernist Genealogies of Gerald Bull / Edward Jones-Imhotep
9 Percy Schmeiser, Roundup Ready® Canola, and Canadian Agricultural Modernity / Eda Kranakis
Part 3: Environments
10 Landscapes of Science in Canada: Modernity and Disruption / Stephen Bocking
11 “For Canada and for Science”: Transnational Modernity and the Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1918 / Andrew Stuhl
12 North Stars and Sun Destinations: Time, Space, and Nation at Trans Canada Air Lines/Air Canada, 1947–70 / Blair Stein
13 Negotiating High Modernism: The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project / Daniel Macfarlane
Epilogue: Canadian Modernity as an Icon of the Anthropocene / Dolly Jørgensen
Index
Part 1: Bodies
1 Civilizing the Natives: Richard King and His Ethnographic Writings on Indigenous Northerners / Efram Sera-Shriar
2 Scientist Tourist Sportsman Spy: Boundary-Work and the Putnam Eastern Arctic Expeditions / Tina Adcock
3 Nature’s Tonic: Electric Medicine in Urban Canada, 1880–1920 / Dorotea Gucciardo
4 Cosmic Moderns: Re-Enchanting the Body in Canada’s Atomic Age, 1931–51 / Beth A. Robertson
Part 2: Technologies
5 The Second Industrial Revolution in Canadian History / James Hull
6 Mysteries of the New Phone Explained: Introducing Dial Telephones and Automatic Service to Bell Canada Subscribers in the 1920s / Jan Hadlaw
7 Small Science: Trained Acquaintance and the One-Man Research Team / David Theodore
8 Paris–Montreal–Babylon: The Modernist Genealogies of Gerald Bull / Edward Jones-Imhotep
9 Percy Schmeiser, Roundup Ready® Canola, and Canadian Agricultural Modernity / Eda Kranakis
Part 3: Environments
10 Landscapes of Science in Canada: Modernity and Disruption / Stephen Bocking
11 “For Canada and for Science”: Transnational Modernity and the Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1918 / Andrew Stuhl
12 North Stars and Sun Destinations: Time, Space, and Nation at Trans Canada Air Lines/Air Canada, 1947–70 / Blair Stein
13 Negotiating High Modernism: The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project / Daniel Macfarlane
Epilogue: Canadian Modernity as an Icon of the Anthropocene / Dolly Jørgensen
Index
Notă biografică
Edward Jones-Imhotep is a cultural historian of science and technology and an associate professor of history at York University. He is the recipient of the Sidney Edelstein Prize in the history of technology for his book The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War. He has held visiting fellowships at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and was the Northrop Frye Visiting Fellow at the University of Toronto.
Tina Adcock is a cultural and environmental historian of modern Canada and an assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University. She has published work in Swedish, Norwegian, Canadian, and American scholarly journals and volumes. She is an associate of the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University.
Contributors: Stephen Bocking, Dorotea Gucciardo, Jan Hadlaw, James Hull, Dolly Jørgensen, Eda Kranakis, Daniel Macfarlane, Beth A. Robertson, Efram Sera-Shriar, Blair Stein, Andrew Stuhl, David Theodore
Tina Adcock is a cultural and environmental historian of modern Canada and an assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University. She has published work in Swedish, Norwegian, Canadian, and American scholarly journals and volumes. She is an associate of the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University.
Contributors: Stephen Bocking, Dorotea Gucciardo, Jan Hadlaw, James Hull, Dolly Jørgensen, Eda Kranakis, Daniel Macfarlane, Beth A. Robertson, Efram Sera-Shriar, Blair Stein, Andrew Stuhl, David Theodore
Descriere
The first major collection of its kind in thirty years, Made Modern explores the role of science and technology in shaping Canadians' experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.