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Title On the case : explorations in social history / edited by Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 369 pages) : illustrations
Series Cultural Spaces
Cultural spaces.
Contents ""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 "On the Case is a timely book intended to provide a forum for discussing the theoretical and methodological issues that arise in connection with the use of case files in research. The book brings together theoretical debates, new research, and new research methods and offers compelling illustrations of the drama, conflict, and power relations that the case file can capture." "This collection of essays features some of Canada's leading social historians. Readers will encounter an impressive array of case files, including psychiatrists' accounts of sexual deviants, employment records of sailors, state welfare and Indian Affairs reports, court records, the patient forms of hospital and asylum doctors, and state security files. While the contributors differ in choice of subject and approach, they share a commitment to the progressive traditions of social history. They recover the voices and actions of people - not only of those with power but also of those who seemingly have none."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Historical sociology -- Methodology
Records -- Canada
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
HISTORY -- General.
Historical sociology -- Methodology
Social history -- Research
Records
Quellenforschung
Sozialgeschichtsschreibung
Aufsatzsammlung
Akte
Sociale geschiedenis (wetenschap)
Sociologie historique -- Méthodologie.
Archives -- Canada.
SUBJECT Canada -- Social conditions -- Research
Subject Canada
Kanada
Canada -- Conditions sociales -- Recherche.
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
Records (Sports)
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
Author Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-
Mitchinson, Wendy.
LC no. 98229696
ISBN 9781442678071
1442678070
9780802081292
0802081290
9786612028373
6612028378
1282028375
9781282028371