Douglas Mccalla
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Mccalla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccalla |
| SIGNATURE | MCCALLA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent: The Everyday Life of a Canadian Englishman, 1842–1898 . J.I. Little
Bettina Liverant. Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada
These books are welcome additions to the still-modest literature on the history of consumption in Canada, but if there were a consumer watchdog for books, it would flag them for misleading titles. Their protagonists are not “buying,” they are thinking and arguing: in Michael Dawson’s Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945–1985, about regulations governing store-opening hours, and in Bettina Liverant’s Buyin…
Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 by E. A. Heaman
Reviewed by: Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 by E. A. Heaman Douglas McCalla Heaman, E. A. – Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. Pp. 600. E. A. Heaman's Tax, Order, and Good Government has a very ambitious agenda, covering all three levels of government, the whole country, and a long period; and it rests on a m…
Canada and the First World War, Second Edition: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown
This book comprises a collection of original essays on Canada’s experience during the First World War. The essays were written by more than a dozen of Canada’s leading historians in honour of Robert Craig Brown, a historian who has had an important impact on the writing of history in Canada.
Village shops and country stores 1
This essay addresses village shopkeeping under five headings: goods, shopping, credit, management and “continuity and change”. It begins with goods because stocking and selling products from beyond its locality were the shop’s central role (although that could be combined with other local business). Shopping involved choosing what to buy, and where; for the latter, the village shop’s proximity was an essential advantage. A purchase did not comple…
Canada’s Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870–1940 by R. W. Sandwell
Reviewed by: Canada’s Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870–1940 by R. W. Sandwell Douglas McCalla Sandwell, R. W. – Canada’s Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870–1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Pp. 258. Until at least the early twentieth century in northwestern Europe and North America (and long after that elsewhere), a large majority of the world’s population was rural, yet thes…
A World through Commerce: Explorations in Upper Canada (and Beyond)
In this article, Douglas McCalla offers a necessarily selective account of an academic trajectory, with emphasis on the encouragement and the scholarly community that made it possible. Like a number of those contributing to this series, he had not foreseen becoming a historian until discovering that he was one. An interest in economic and business history began with a curiosity about urban business leadership and the trade with Britain that susta…
Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada
‘We aint “ gentlemen ” merchants’: The country retailer in Upper Canada
Country stores were universal in Upper Canada, and they are a necessary component of every living history site. Yet systematic explorations of the actual work of such stores in nineteenth-century North America, based on direct primary evidence, are uncommon; and powerful (and often conflicting) stereotypes of them persist, in living history settings and in the historical literature. This article goes beyond such standard images by using evidence …
The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt
Book Review| January 01 2010 The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt. Ken Hoeppner. Douglas McCalla Douglas McCalla Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 123–124. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.1.123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Douglas McCalla; The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt. Agric…
The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790–1862
Book Review| January 01 2010 The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790–1862 The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790-1862. Daniel Samson. Douglas McCalla Douglas McCalla Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 137–138. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.1.137 Cit…
Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820
At the northeast corner of Maine, the border with New Brunswick runs along the Saint Croix River, whose mouth, Passamaquoddy Bay, is the focus of Borderland Smuggling. Because the exact line of the border among the islands in the bay was contested, local officials on both sides found it convenient to imagine a neutral zone there. Fog, tides, currents, and rocks added to the uncertainties of the place. Much of the illegal activity took place on th…
A World without Chocolate: Grocery Purchases at Some Upper Canadian Country Stores, 1808-1861
Based on account books, a frequently overlooked type of source, this is a study of grocery purchases made by sample customers from some country stores in Upper Canada (Ontario), in selected years between 1808 and 1861. Although literary sources suggest otherwise, no one bought chocolate; but many people bought tea, tobacco, sugar, and salt, evidently at standard levels for contemporary British society. As time went by, a growing range of products…
Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline, and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770-1870
Journal Article Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline, and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770–1870. By Edith I. Burley. (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1997. vi, 319 pp. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-19-541296-6.) Get access Douglas McCalla Douglas McCalla Trent University, Peterborough, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pa…
Hope and Deception in Conception Bay: Merchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland, 1785-1855
A Particular Condition in Life: Self-Employment and Social Mobility in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario
Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784-1870
The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923
Journal Article The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849–1923. By R. B. Fleming. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1991. xxii + 301 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7748-0382-7.) Get access The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849–1923. By Fleming R. B.. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1991. xxii + 301 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7748-0382-7.) Douglas McCalla Douglas McCalla Trent University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Forest Products and Upper Canadian Development, 1815–46
A Journal For All Seasons
Too Much of a Good Thing? Canadian Studies in the 1980s
Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America
Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810-1850
The Upper Canada Trade 1834–1872: A Study of the Buchanans' Business
The trading business of Peter and Isaac Buchanan became one of Canada’s largest. This history of success and failure reveals much about the Anglo-Canadian trading system and the Upper Canadian economy of the period. This book illuminates a key period in Canada’s economic and historical development.
Toronto Waterworks, 1840–77: Continuity and Change in Nineteenth‐Century Toronto Politics
Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820
At the northeast corner of Maine, the border with New Brunswick runs along the Saint Croix River, whose mouth, Passamaquoddy Bay, is the focus of Borderland Smuggling. Because the exact line of the border among the islands in the bay was contested, local officials on both sides found it convenient to imagine a neutral zone there. Fog, tides, currents, and rocks added to the uncertainties of the place. Much of the illegal activity took place on th…
Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784-1870
Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America
The Commercial Politics of the Toronto Board of Trade, 1850–1860
T•E 1850S sero GENERALLY CoNsmEIIED to have been the first great boom period in Canadian economic history. More precisely, it might be said that the businessmen of the time found the years 1850 to early 1857 ones of unprecedented prosperity, but from 1857 to 1859 at least hey felt they were suffering under an unprecedented depression. Toronto shared in this. From 1850 to 1856 its population grew from 25,166 to 41,760, and the annual value of impo…
The Upper Canada Trade 1834–1872: A Study of the Buchanans' Business
The trading business of Peter and Isaac Buchanan became one of Canada’s largest. This history of success and failure reveals much about the Anglo-Canadian trading system and the Upper Canadian economy of the period. This book illuminates a key period in Canada’s economic and historical development.
Toronto Waterworks, 1840–77: Continuity and Change in Nineteenth‐Century Toronto Politics
Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810-1850
Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America
Too Much of a Good Thing? Canadian Studies in the 1980s
A Journal For All Seasons
Forest Products and Upper Canadian Development, 1815–46
The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923
Journal Article The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849–1923. By R. B. Fleming. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1991. xxii + 301 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7748-0382-7.) Get access The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849–1923. By Fleming R. B.. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1991. xxii + 301 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7748-0382-7.) Douglas McCalla Douglas McCalla Trent University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784-1870
Hope and Deception in Conception Bay: Merchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland, 1785-1855
A Particular Condition in Life: Self-Employment and Social Mobility in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario
Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline, and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770-1870
Journal Article Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline, and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770–1870. By Edith I. Burley. (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1997. vi, 319 pp. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-19-541296-6.) Get access Douglas McCalla Douglas McCalla Trent University, Peterborough, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pa…
A World without Chocolate: Grocery Purchases at Some Upper Canadian Country Stores, 1808-1861
Based on account books, a frequently overlooked type of source, this is a study of grocery purchases made by sample customers from some country stores in Upper Canada (Ontario), in selected years between 1808 and 1861. Although literary sources suggest otherwise, no one bought chocolate; but many people bought tea, tobacco, sugar, and salt, evidently at standard levels for contemporary British society. As time went by, a growing range of products…
Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820
At the northeast corner of Maine, the border with New Brunswick runs along the Saint Croix River, whose mouth, Passamaquoddy Bay, is the focus of Borderland Smuggling. Because the exact line of the border among the islands in the bay was contested, local officials on both sides found it convenient to imagine a neutral zone there. Fog, tides, currents, and rocks added to the uncertainties of the place. Much of the illegal activity took place on th…
The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt
Book Review| January 01 2010 The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt. Ken Hoeppner. Douglas McCalla Douglas McCalla Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 123–124. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.1.123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Douglas McCalla; The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt. Agric…
The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790–1862
Book Review| January 01 2010 The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790–1862 The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790-1862. Daniel Samson. Douglas McCalla Douglas McCalla Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 137–138. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.1.137 Cit…
Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada
‘We aint “ gentlemen ” merchants’: The country retailer in Upper Canada
Country stores were universal in Upper Canada, and they are a necessary component of every living history site. Yet systematic explorations of the actual work of such stores in nineteenth-century North America, based on direct primary evidence, are uncommon; and powerful (and often conflicting) stereotypes of them persist, in living history settings and in the historical literature. This article goes beyond such standard images by using evidence …
A World through Commerce: Explorations in Upper Canada (and Beyond)
In this article, Douglas McCalla offers a necessarily selective account of an academic trajectory, with emphasis on the encouragement and the scholarly community that made it possible. Like a number of those contributing to this series, he had not foreseen becoming a historian until discovering that he was one. An interest in economic and business history began with a curiosity about urban business leadership and the trade with Britain that susta…
Canada’s Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870–1940 by R. W. Sandwell
Reviewed by: Canada’s Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870–1940 by R. W. Sandwell Douglas McCalla Sandwell, R. W. – Canada’s Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870–1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Pp. 258. Until at least the early twentieth century in northwestern Europe and North America (and long after that elsewhere), a large majority of the world’s population was rural, yet thes…
Canada and the First World War, Second Edition: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown
This book comprises a collection of original essays on Canada’s experience during the First World War. The essays were written by more than a dozen of Canada’s leading historians in honour of Robert Craig Brown, a historian who has had an important impact on the writing of history in Canada.
Village shops and country stores 1
This essay addresses village shopkeeping under five headings: goods, shopping, credit, management and “continuity and change”. It begins with goods because stocking and selling products from beyond its locality were the shop’s central role (although that could be combined with other local business). Shopping involved choosing what to buy, and where; for the latter, the village shop’s proximity was an essential advantage. A purchase did not comple…
Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 by E. A. Heaman
Reviewed by: Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 by E. A. Heaman Douglas McCalla Heaman, E. A. – Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. Pp. 600. E. A. Heaman's Tax, Order, and Good Government has a very ambitious agenda, covering all three levels of government, the whole country, and a long period; and it rests on a m…
Bettina Liverant. Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada
These books are welcome additions to the still-modest literature on the history of consumption in Canada, but if there were a consumer watchdog for books, it would flag them for misleading titles. Their protagonists are not “buying,” they are thinking and arguing: in Michael Dawson’s Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945–1985, about regulations governing store-opening hours, and in Bettina Liverant’s Buyin…
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