Twentieth-Century Newfoundland

by Hiller, James; Neary, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781550810721
• ISBN10: 1550810723
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd

Summary

Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations brings together ten papers by eight well-known historians of Newfoundland and Labrador. The papers address a wide variety of subject matter and open many avenues for further research. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography on the Newfoundland and Labrador in the Twentieth century. This bibliography is organized by topic and will serve the needs of the general reader and specialists alike. Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations highlight the scope and complexity of present day writing about the history of Newfoundland and Labrador. James Hiller, Professor of History at Memorial University and author of a number of articles on Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Peter Neary, Professor of History at the University of Weste Ontario and the author of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic World, 1929-1949(1998).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Contributors	p. 9
The Political Career of Robert Bond	p. 11
Tourists, Health Seekers and Sportsmen: Luring Americans to Newfoundland in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 47
Self-Help, Charity, and Individual Responsibility: the Political Economy of Social Policy in Newfoundland in the 1920s	p. 79
The Commission of Government's Land Settlement Scheme in Newfoundland	p. 123
'Deemed Undesirable': Newfoundland's Immigration Policy, 1900-49	p. 153
'A Mortgaged Property': the Impact of the United States on Newfoundland, 1940-49	p. 179
How Newfoundland Veterans became Canadian Veterans: a Study in Bureaucracy and Benefit	p. 195
The Problem of Newfoundland: the Fisheries and Newfoundland's Integration into Canada, 1948-57	p. 239
The Interplay of Private and Public Enterprise in the Production of Electricity on the Island of Newfoundland, 1883-1966	p. 273
Changing Government: the 1971-72 Newfoundland Example	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 321
Index	p. 375
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