scholarly journals Montreal's golden age

Urban History ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-412
Author(s):  
Jeanne M. Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
The West ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Electrical Systems ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Bridge Crossing ◽  
The City ◽  
St Lawrence River

Between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression of the twentieth, Montreal was transformed from a small colonial town into Canada's leading metropolis. Waterworks, telephone, gas and electrical systems were laid, the Lachine canal was widened and deepened, and the port installations completely rebuilt and greatly expanded. The Victoria Bridge crossing the mighty St Lawrence River was completed in 1860 and the transcontinental railways spanned the nation by the late 1880s, which opened up the west and created new markets. People flocked into the city from the countryside to work in the burgeoning industries, to be joined by ever increasing numbers of immigrants.

Urban Formalism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Faflik
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The West ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Street Protest ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form ◽  
The City

Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to “read” a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and Paris, were learning to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings, city peoples increasingly looked to the experiential patterns, or forms, from their everyday lives in an attempt to translate urban experience into something they could more easily comprehend. Urban Formalism interrogates both the risks and rewards of an interpretive practice that depended on the mutual relation between urbanism and formalism, at a moment when the subjective experience of the city had reached unprecedented levels of complexity. What did it mean to read a city sidewalk as if it were a literary form, like a poem? On what basis might the material form of a burning block of buildings be received as a pleasurable spectacle? How closely aligned were the ideology and choreography of the political form of a revolutionary street protest? And what were the implications of conceiving of the city’s exciting dynamism in the static visual form of a photographic composition? These are the questions that Urban Formalism asks and begins to answer, with the aim of proposing a revisionist semantics of the city. This book not only provides an original cultural history of forms. It posits a new form of urban history, comprised of the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life.

Redefining the Heartland

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Wuthnow
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Electoral Cycle ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines how Kansas experienced a long slide from being the “kernel of the country” to becoming a mere outpost far from the centers of national economic and political influence—a shift that was rooted in economic and demographic changes, but was primarily a matter of cultural redefinition. On those rare occasions in the nineteenth century when the Kansas Republican Party lost power, it regrouped and made a comeback in the next electoral cycle. The chapter first considers how the influence of Republicans and Methodists peaked in 1924, a banner year for the Kansas economy, before discussing the consolidation and further expansion of Kansas churches. It then describes the separation of church and state, along with the rise of fundamentalism and the impact of the Great Depression on Kansas churches. It also explores the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 and the emergence of smaller political and religious movements in Kansas.

Censorship: Publish and Be Damned

2014 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
Peter Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Realism ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Moment

State censorship in Australia has been rare, controversial and short-lived. There was almost none in the liberal nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, the two world wars, the Great Depression and the new age of terrorism led to more determined, if comparatively temporary, attempts to censor publications that advocated sedition or violence. Moral censorship of obscenity was also rare in the nineteenth century, but enjoyed an ‘heroic’ period following the arrival of a new realism in literature and the age of lurid comic books. The internet has made such censorship almost totally ineffective. Blaspheming the Christian religion is no longer treated as a punishable offence, although attacking Islam may still sometimes be deemed actionable in law. The advent of multiculturalism has encouraged legislation to restrict free speech deemed to be ‘hate speech’, but its application has been episodic, unpopular and ineffective. The contest between writers demanding freedom and censors demanding standards is unending. But at the moment, the balance favours writers.

Some notes on British Trade Unionism in the third Quarter of the nineteenth Century

1937 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. H. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Model Type ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Third ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
British Trade

The principal purpose of these notes is to correct certain misunderstandings which I believe to be widely prevalent concerning the character of British Trade Unionism during the quarter of a century which followed the establishment in 1850—1851 of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. The period covered thus begins with the inauguration of the ‘new model’ type of Amalgamated Society, and extends to the end of the trade boom of the early seventies, stopping just short of the Great Depression which set in about 1875.

scholarly journals A Country for all Ages

1970 ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Samira Aghacy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Folk Narrative ◽  
The Great Depression

Oral history as research approach emerges partly from nineteenth century European romantic nationalism, with its enthusiasm for folk-lore and folk-narrative, partly from journalistic investigation into social conditions, for instance Mayhew's study of the London poor (1861) or, much later, the radio journalist Studs Terkel's classic study of the Great Depression (1970).

scholarly journals The Art of Running Away: Escapes and Flight Movements During the Great Depression in São Tomé e Príncipe, 1930–1936

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Beatriz Valverde Contreras ◽  
Alexander Keese
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Atlantic Slavery ◽  
Sao Tome E Principe ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract As a coerced labour force living under repressive conditions, contract workers in São Tomé e Príncipe's cocoa plantations belong to a wider phenomenon of global plantation experience during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Flight appears as an important element of that experience and this article is an attempt to interpret the strategies of runaways in São Tomé's turbulent Great Depression years after 1930. The work set out here benefitted from a large selection of unexplored sources of the island's labour inspectorate, which can be found in the archipelago itself. Its analysis has enabled interpretation of the motives of escaping workers, and with it discussion of three principal strategic contexts of flight: the experiences of runaways who formed communities; attempts by escaped workers to hide and become part of “native” (forro) communities in rural areas or in the city of São Tomé; and the agency of workers trying to run away to subsequently renegotiate their conditions with labour inspectors or with plantation administrators sympathetic to their situation. The last part of the article attempts to locate that experience in the global history of runaways, connecting it with the types of “ecosystems of running” discussed for Atlantic slavery and later indentured labour systems.

The Relief Scandal In Montreal's Italian Community and Its Political Background: Fascio, Consulate and the Roman Catholic Parish of the Church of the Madonna della Difesa, October 1932-July 1933

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Angelo Principe
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Italian Community

The following essay is divided into three inter-woven parts. The first deals with the ravage of the Great Depression in Canada; the second explores the Canadian clerical and secular establishment's view of fascism and its local Italian proponents; the last part unravels the cozy collaboration in Montreal among local Italian fascists, the Italian Consulate, the priests of the Italian Catholic Parish Madonna della Difesa and the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, which was in charge of assisting needy people across the city. In 1932, with the approval of the Parish priest, Zanobri Manfriani, the Society gave the task of dispensing relief to Catholic Italians of the Mile End district to the local Italian fascio Luporini and its leader Ottorino Incoronato. After a few months. Incoronato, to avoid being charged with fraud, left Canada in a hurry, for good.

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