Acadiensis Press

Calendar of Life in a Narrow Valley

Jacobina Campbell — 2016-01-30

Over the course of two decades, the ever-observant Jacobina Campbell coordinated the activities of a busy household and reported on the daily lives of family and neighbours. This remarkable woman’s diary introduces an early 19th-century community on the Nashwaak River where life and work were shaped by the seasonal rhythms of the farming-lumbering economy that came to characterize much of rural New Brunswick.

Land and Sea

Claire Campbell — 2013-02-25

An original exploration of the relationship between people and the environment in Atlantic Canada, from the native-settler interactions of the 17th century to the presentday challenges of resource depletion and economic renewal. Major themes focus on how people have explained and understood the natural world, what we have learned from experiments in conservation and management, and how we have responded to environmental crisis and change. This wide-ranging collection features contributors from all four provinces and beyond, and is edited and introduced by Claire Campbell and Robert Summerby-Murray of Dalhousie University. The final chapter is an eloquent survey of the region’s environmental history by the distinguished historical geographer Graeme Wynn, University of British Columbia.

The Nova Scotia Planters in the Atlantic World, 1759-1830

T. Stephen Henderson — 2012-01-01

The early Maritime Provinces were at the centre of a struggle for supremacy in the Atlantic World – “ground zero in the battle of North America,” writes Jerry Banister of Dalhousie University. This is the latest in our classic series of Planter Studies on the social, economic, and cultural history of the region, reflecting the influence of the new “Atlantic World” scholarship while exploring the community structures, economies, loyalties, and religions of Planter Nova Scotia.

Making up the State: Women in 20th-Century Atlantic Canada

Janet Guildford — 2010-10-01

The Education of an Innocent

E.R. Forbes — 2009-01-01

An informal personal history by one of the most respected and beloved regional historians of the Maritimes. Insights into schooling and society, family and church, the outdoors and the universities, all of which shaped his character and his work. Edited and introduced by former student Stephen Dutcher, and featuring a conversation with historian John G. Reid.

Planter Links: Community and Culture in Colonial Nova Scotia

Margaret Conrad — 2001-08-01

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Atlantic Canada After Confederation The Acadiensis Reader: Volume Two

Phillip A. Buckner — 1999-01-01

A Guide to Health Care History Materials in New Brunswick

Gillian Liebenberg — 1998-01-01

Atlantic Canada Before Confederation The Acadiensis Reader: Volume One

Phillip A. Buckner — 1998-01-01

The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation

Ernest R. Forbes — 1997-01-01

Thirteen leading historians explore Atlantic Canada's history from Confederation to the 1980s. Their work sheds light on the complex political dynamic between the region and Ottawa and on the roots of current social and economic realities.

For a Working Class Culture in Canada: A Selection of Colin McKay's Writings on Sociology and political Economy, 1897- 1939

Colin McKay — 1996-01-01

Labour and Working-Class History in Atlantic Canada: A Reader

David Frank — 1995-01-01

This collection of essays provides a generous introduction to the vibrant field of labour and working-class history in Canada's eastern provinces. Organized in four sections covering pre-industrial labour, the industrial revolution, labour's wars of the early twentieth century, and the rise of industrial legality, the book should prove useful in university classrooms and for all readers interested in the history of the region's ordinary people. Concluding chapters address topics of current interest such as public sector unionism, the role of women in the fishery, and the horrors of the Westray mine disaster. The editors provide an introduction, section heads, and suggestions for further reading.

The volume is edited by David Frank, Department of History, University of New Brunswick, the former editor of Acadiensis, and Gregory S. Kealey, Department of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dean of Graduate Studies. Authors include T. W. Acheson, Rusty Bittermann, Sean Cadigan, Jessie Chisholm, Patricia M. Connelly, Peter DeLottinville, E. R. Forbes, Eugene Forsey, Harry Glasbeek, Linda Little, Martha MacDonald, Robert McIntosh, Ian McKay, D. A. Muise, Nolan Reilly, Eric W. Sager, Anthony Thomson, and Eric Tucker.

Separate Spheres: Women's Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes

Janet Guildford — 1994-01-01

A best-selling anthology of original articles about the history of women in the Maritime Provinces. The traditional stereotypes surrounding Victorian womanhood are challenged by authors who tell us about farm women and black women, about women in classrooms, churches and factories, about women who struggled against family violence, defended their property rights, participated in public events and campaigned for social reform. Contributors include Rusty Bittermann, Gail Campbell, Janet Guildford, Phillip Girard, Rebecca Veinott, Hannah Lane, Bonnie Huskins, Suzanne Morton, Sharon Myers, Judith Fingard and Gwendolyn Davies.

The Atlantic Region to Confederation: a History

Phillip A. Buckner — 1994-01-01

Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is required, to convey the state of our knowledge in the 1990s. Many of the themes important to today's historians, notably those relating to social class, gender, and ethnicity, have been fully developed only since 1970. Important advances have been made in our understanding of regional economic developments and their implications for social, cultural, and political life. This book is intended to fill the need for an up-to-date overview of emerging regional themes and issues. Each of the sixteen chapters, written by a distinguished scholar, covers a specific chronological period and has been carefully integrated into the whole. The history begins with the evolution of Native cultures and the impact of the arrival of Europeans on those cultures, and continues to the formation of Confederation. The goal has been to provide a synthesis that not only incorporates the most recent scholarship but is accessible to the general reader. The book re-assesses many old themes from a new perspective, and seeks to broaden the focus of regional history to include those groups whom the traditional historiography ignored or marginalized.

Contested Countryside: Rural Workers and Modern Society in Atlantic Canada, 1800-1950

Daniel Samson — 1994-01-01

Myth and Milieu: Atlantic Literature and Culture 1918-1939

Gwendolyn Davies — 1993-01-01

A lively look at the cultural history of the Maritimes and Newfoundland in the years between the two world wars. This is the world of Lucy Maud Montgomery and Thomas Raddall, E. J. Pratt and Helen Creighton, Margaret Duley and Frank Parker Day. In a wide-ranging review of regional culture, Myth & Milieu explores novels and poetry, painting and folklore, music and film, local dialect and political cartoons.

Farm, Factory and Fortune: New Studies in the Economic History of the Maritime Provinces

Kris Inwood — 1993-01-01

Pursuing Equality: Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland & Labrador

Linda Kealey — 1993-01-01

This collection of essays breaks the silence of the political and legal history of women in Newfoundland and Labrador during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other books on Canadian women's history have concentrated on middle-class women in central Canada and largely ignored women's history in the Atlantic provinces. This book begins to close the gap with essays on the Newfoundland women's suffrage movement; women and the law, and the modern women's movement. The descriptions and photos of the women and their bid for equality make for enjoyable and informative reading. Each essay contains documents from the period and a detailed bibliography and index.

Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

L. Anders Sandberg — 1992-01-01

New Brunswick Schools: A Guide to Archival Sources

Diana Moore — 1992-01-01

Studies in Maritime Literary History, 1760-1930

Gwendolyn Davies — 1991-01-01

From the early diarists and satirists to the women writers of the nineteenth century and the poetic Song Fishermen of the twentieth, Maritime writers have made distinctive responses to the social, political and geographical realities of their time. These essays reveal how the region's writers have shaped and reflected the identity of the Maritimes.

Jack Tar in History: Essays in the History of Maritime Life and Labour

Colin Howell — 1991-01-01

Time and Place: The Life and Works of Thomas H. Raddall

Alan R. Young — 1991-01-01

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Making Adjustments: Change and Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800

Margaret Conrad — 1991-01-01

Insights into the geopolitical forces transforming the Atlantic world in the late 18th century, from economics and politics to religion, literature, music and material culture. Still available at a new low price, this is an excellent companion to our most recent title in the Planter Studies series, Nova Scotia Planters in the Atlantic World.

Merchant Credit and Labour Strategies in Historical Perspective

Rosemary E. Ommer — 1990-01-01

The Island: New Perspectives on Cape Breton's History 1713-1990

Kenneth Donovan — 1990-01-01

Profiles of Science and Society in the Maritimes prior to 1914

Paul A. Bogaard — 1990-01-01

The Northeastern Borderlands: Four Centuries of Interaction

Stephen J. Hornsby — 1989-01-01

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Workers and the State in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia

Michael Earle — 1989-01-01

Challenging the Regional Stereotype: Essays on the 20th Century Maritimes

Ernest R. Forbes — 1989-01-01

The Prince Edward Island Land Commission of 1860

Ian Ross Robertson — 1988-01-01

They Planted Well

Margaret Conrad — 1988-01-01

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A Man for Two Peoples: Pierre-Amand Landry

Della M.M. Stanley — 1988-01-01

In search of the Highlands : mapping the Canada-Maine boundary, 1839

Alec McEwan — 1988-01-01

Beyond Anger and Longing: Community and Development in Atlantic Canada

Berkeley Fleming — 1988-01-01

People, Resources, and Power: Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment and Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region

Gary Burrill — 1987-01-01

Au service de deux peuples: Pierre-Amand Landry

Della M.M. Stanley — 1987-01-01

Teaching Maritime Studies

Phillip A. Buckner — 1986-01-01

"Red Line": The Chronicle Herald and The Mail Star 1875-1954

William March — 1986-01-01

Industrialization And Underdevelopment in the Maritimes, 1880-1930

Thomas William Acheson — 1985-01-01

The Economic History of the Maritime Provinces

T.W. Acheson — 1984-01-01

The Letters of James and Ellen Robb: Portrait of a Fredericton Family in Early Victorian Times

Alfred G. Bailey — 1983-01-01

Four Years with the Demon Rum, 1925-1929

Clifford Rose — 1980-01-01

The University of New Brunswick: Memorial Volume

Alfred G. Bailey — 1950-01-01

The Judges of New Brunswick and Their Times

Alfred A. Stockton — 1907-01-01