Robert A J Mcdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 951979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A J Mcdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD R A J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Islands of Truth
Journal Article Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island Get access Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island. By Clayton Daniel W.. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. xxii + 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Robert A. J. Mcdonald Robert A. J. Mcdonald McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Search for other works by this author on…
Ideal Surroundings
Horses of a Shared Colour
It is a rare event in Canadian historiography that two fine books should appear simultaneously dealing with the same city in the same time period. Rarer still is the fact that the two authors would subsequently debate the core concept of their books ? the importance of class in history ? in a regional journal. One is an urban historian, the other a historian of the working class. Reviewers of the two books are thus tempted to explore the upstairs…
Lumber Society on the Industrial Frontier
From the mid-to-late 19th century, the small settler population in British Columbia formed relatively isolated and highly discrete communities. One of these settlements, on Burrard Inlet, is best understood as the operation of industrial capitalism in a frontier setting. While settlement clustered around two sawmills, the power of capital — expressed through policies of managerial paternalism — was sharply curtailed by the ethnically complex, rel…
Vancouver's Chinatown
Workers, Capital, and the State of British Columbia
Vancouver Past
‘Holy Retreat’ or ‘Practical Breathing Spot’
British Columbia
Andrew Parnaby, Citizen Docker (Toronto
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Andrew Parnaby, Citizen Docker (Toronto
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
British Columbia
‘Holy Retreat’ or ‘Practical Breathing Spot’
Vancouver Past
Workers, Capital, and the State of British Columbia
Vancouver's Chinatown
Lumber Society on the Industrial Frontier
From the mid-to-late 19th century, the small settler population in British Columbia formed relatively isolated and highly discrete communities. One of these settlements, on Burrard Inlet, is best understood as the operation of industrial capitalism in a frontier setting. While settlement clustered around two sawmills, the power of capital — expressed through policies of managerial paternalism — was sharply curtailed by the ethnically complex, rel…
Ideal Surroundings
Horses of a Shared Colour
It is a rare event in Canadian historiography that two fine books should appear simultaneously dealing with the same city in the same time period. Rarer still is the fact that the two authors would subsequently debate the core concept of their books ? the importance of class in history ? in a regional journal. One is an urban historian, the other a historian of the working class. Reviewers of the two books are thus tempted to explore the upstairs…
Islands of Truth
Journal Article Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island Get access Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island. By Clayton Daniel W.. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. xxii + 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Robert A. J. Mcdonald Robert A. J. Mcdonald McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Search for other works by this author on…
Canadian Identity and History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Genealogy (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works)