Magda Fahrni

Household Politics

Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through in-depth research from a wide variety of sources, Fahrni brings together family history, social history, and political history to look at a wide variety of Montreal families- French-speaking and English-speaking; Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish - making Household Politics a particularly unique and erudite study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780802038494
• ISBN-10: 0802038492
• Artikelnr.: 22232563

Autorenporträt

Magda Fahrni is an assistant professor in the Department of History at l’Université du Québec à Montréal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Summer 1945
2 A Web of Welfare: The Mixed Social Economy of Postwar Montreal
3 'Pour que bientôt il me revienne': Sustaining Soldiers, Veterans, and
Their Families
4 Commemorating the Cent-Mariés: Marriage and Public Memory
5 A Politics of Prices: Married Women and Economic Citizenship
6 In the Streets: Fatherhood and Public Protest
Conclusion: City Unique?