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Observing the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980
J. Webb
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Description for Observing the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980
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The years after Newfoundland's confederation with Canada were ones of rapid social and economic change, as provincial resettlement and industrialization initiatives attempted to transform the lives of rural Newfoundlanders. At Memorial University in St. John's, a new generation of faculty saw the province's transformation as a critical moment. Some hoped to solve the challenges of modernization through their rural research. Others hoped to document the island's traditional culture before it disappeared. Between them they created the field of Newfoundland studies. In Observing the Outports, Jeff A. Webb illustrates how interdisciplinary collaborations among scholars of lexicography, ... Read more
The years after Newfoundland's confederation with Canada were ones of rapid social and economic change, as provincial resettlement and industrialization initiatives attempted to transform the lives of rural Newfoundlanders. At Memorial University in St. John's, a new generation of faculty saw the province's transformation as a critical moment. Some hoped to solve the challenges of modernization through their rural research. Others hoped to document the island's traditional culture before it disappeared. Between them they created the field of Newfoundland studies. In Observing the Outports, Jeff A. Webb illustrates how interdisciplinary collaborations among scholars of lexicography, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
648g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442628946
SKU
V9781442628946
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About J. Webb
Jeff A. Webb is an associate professor in the Department of History at Memorial University.
Reviews for Observing the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980
`Observing the Outports is one of the most fascinating regional histories I have read in a long time... The book will be read by anyone interested in the study of regional culture and those interested in how interdisciplinarity can be developed within insular confines of the academy.'
Richard MacKinnon
Canadian Historical Review vol 98:02:2017
Richard MacKinnon
Canadian Historical Review vol 98:02:2017