Katharine Rollwagen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4089450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharine Rollwagen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharine |
| FAMILY NAME | Rollwagen |
| SIGNATURE | ROLLWAGEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vancouver Island University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture . Donica Belisle
The Young Medium: Regulating Television in the Name of Canadian Childhood
In the 1950s, many Canadians purchased television sets and contemplated the broader meaning of this new technology for their country, their families, and particularly their children. This article examines the opinions presented to the Royal Commission on Broadcasting in 1956 and demonstrates that many adults called for continued and/or strengthened state regulation of broadcasting in order to protect and shape an imagined vulnerable and malleable…
Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada / Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945–1980
Eaton’s Goes to School: Youth Councils and the Commodification of the Teenaged Consumer at Canada’s Largest Department Store, 1940-1960
Au cours des années 1940 et 1950, le principal magasin à rayons du Canada, la Compagnie T. Eaton limitée, a déployé beaucoup d’efforts afin d’établir une relation avec les élèves des écoles secondaires en milieu urbain. Le présent article porte sur les tentatives de l’entreprise visant à valider la participation active des adolescents dans le monde du commerce de détail à titre de consommateurs distincts qu’il fallait dès lors définir, desservir …
Company Towns
Britannia Beach is not a ghost town today, but between 1957 and 1965 residents and employees of the former company-owned copper mining town, located 48 km north of Vancouver, British Columbia, had good reasons to believe it would become one. The town faced two major crises in less than a decade, triggering mine shutdowns that threw the future of the town into question. How did two shutdowns within a decade and affecting the same company town prom…
The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Anitmodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-1955 (review)
Reviewed by: The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Anitmodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-1955 Katharine Rollwagen Wall, Sharon — The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Anitmodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-1955. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. Pp. 369. Sharon Wall's recent history of the summer camp movement in Ontario may leave the reader with difficulty remembering the correct title — is it The Nurture of Nature or…
Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp (review)
Reviewed by: Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp Katharine Rollwagen Paris, Leslie — Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp. New York: New York University Press, 2008. Pp. 364. Readers of Leslie Paris's Children's Nature should be warned — this book may bring on a flood of wistful or painful memories of one's own experiences — or lack thereof — at summer camp. Although Paris's study ends in 1940, before many o…
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The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Anitmodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-1955 (review)
Reviewed by: The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Anitmodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-1955 Katharine Rollwagen Wall, Sharon — The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Anitmodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-1955. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. Pp. 369. Sharon Wall's recent history of the summer camp movement in Ontario may leave the reader with difficulty remembering the correct title — is it The Nurture of Nature or…
Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp (review)
Reviewed by: Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp Katharine Rollwagen Paris, Leslie — Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp. New York: New York University Press, 2008. Pp. 364. Readers of Leslie Paris's Children's Nature should be warned — this book may bring on a flood of wistful or painful memories of one's own experiences — or lack thereof — at summer camp. Although Paris's study ends in 1940, before many o…
Company Towns
Britannia Beach is not a ghost town today, but between 1957 and 1965 residents and employees of the former company-owned copper mining town, located 48 km north of Vancouver, British Columbia, had good reasons to believe it would become one. The town faced two major crises in less than a decade, triggering mine shutdowns that threw the future of the town into question. How did two shutdowns within a decade and affecting the same company town prom…
Eaton’s Goes to School: Youth Councils and the Commodification of the Teenaged Consumer at Canada’s Largest Department Store, 1940-1960
Au cours des années 1940 et 1950, le principal magasin à rayons du Canada, la Compagnie T. Eaton limitée, a déployé beaucoup d’efforts afin d’établir une relation avec les élèves des écoles secondaires en milieu urbain. Le présent article porte sur les tentatives de l’entreprise visant à valider la participation active des adolescents dans le monde du commerce de détail à titre de consommateurs distincts qu’il fallait dès lors définir, desservir …
Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada / Selling Out or Buying In? Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945–1980
The Young Medium: Regulating Television in the Name of Canadian Childhood
In the 1950s, many Canadians purchased television sets and contemplated the broader meaning of this new technology for their country, their families, and particularly their children. This article examines the opinions presented to the Royal Commission on Broadcasting in 1956 and demonstrates that many adults called for continued and/or strengthened state regulation of broadcasting in order to protect and shape an imagined vulnerable and malleable…
Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture . Donica Belisle
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