Government House Halifax: A Place of History and Gathering, Christopher McCreery

Автор: Boileau John
Название: Halifax and Titanic
ISBN: 1551098954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781551098951
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Автор: Elliott Marilyn Davidson
Название: The Blind Mechanic: The Amazing Story of Eric Davidson, Survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion
ISBN: 1771086769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771086769
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Описание: Eric Davidson lost both eyes in the Halifax Explosion when he was two years old. Against all odds, he taught himself to become an auto mechanic and had a successful decades-long career as "one of the boys." Written by his daughter Marilyn and contains never-before-seen documents and photographs. Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award (Non-fiction).

Автор: Renee N. Lafferty
Название: The Guardianship of Best Interests: Institutional Care for the Children of the Poor in Halifax, 1850-1960
ISBN: 0773540555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773540552
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: It is difficult to imagine how orphan asylums and children`s homes - often depicted as places where abuse, deprivation, and cruelty were commonplace - once presented a viable solution to child neglect. Renee N. Lafferty examines this response as it played out in Halifax, demonstrating how these homes reacted both creatively and valiantly to their environment, despite chronic underfunding and a narrow vision of the possibilities available to disadvantaged children. The Guardianship of Best Interests traces the creation and administration of children`s homes in Halifax from the mid-nineteenth century to their closure in the mid-twentieth. Against the backdrop of a city torn apart by race and religious politics, financial challenges, two world wars, and the devastating explosion of 1917, Halifax institutions frequently represented themselves as the cutting edge of professional child welfare methods. Placing their histories at the core of this study, Lafferty challenges the common assertion that such homes were readily abandoned in favour of the foster care method promoted by the Children`s Aid Society. Through the unique perspective gained by considering inter-denominational competition, along with the effects of racism and the political posturing of the province`s emerging welfare bureaucracy, The Guardianship of Best Interests unearths the significant similarities between past child welfare practices and our current approaches toward neglect and dependency.

Автор: Michael Boudreau
Название: City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35
ISBN: 077482204X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774822046
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Interwar Halifax was a city in flux, a place where citizens debated adopting new ideas and technologies but agreed on one thing – modernity was corrupting public morality and unleashing untold social problems on their fair city.

In this context, citizens, policy makers, and officials turned to the criminal justice system to create a bulwark against further social dislocation. Officials modernized the city’s machinery of order – courts, prisons, and the police force – and placed greater emphasis on crime control, while residents supported tough-on-crime measures and attached little importance to rehabilitation. These initiatives gave birth to a constructed vision of a criminal class that singled out ethnic minorities, working-class men, and female and juvenile offenders as problem figures in the eternal quest for order.

Michael Boudreau’s in-depth study of crime and culture in interwar Halifax, the first of its kind, shows how tough-on-crime measures can compound, rather than resolve, social inequalities and dislocations.

Автор: Ziegler Rogers Melissa
Название: The Politics of Place and the Limits of Redistribution
ISBN: 041582432X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415824323
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Numerous scholars have noticed that certain political institutions, including federalism, majoritarian electoral systems, and presidentialism, are linked to lower levels of income redistribution. This book offers a political geography explanation for those observed patterns. Each of these institutions is strongly shaped by geography and provides incentives for politicians to target their appeals and government resources to localities. Territorialized institutions also shape citizens’ preferences in ways that can undermine the national coalition in favor of redistribution. Moreover, territorial institutions increase the number of veto points in which anti-redistributive actors can constrain reform efforts. These theoretical connections between the politics of place and redistributive outcomes are explored in theory, empirical analysis, and case studies of the USA, Germany, and Argentina.