Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century

Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century
Author: Lachlan MacKinnon
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2024-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1771994053

The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the “long twentieth century” offers a particularly captivating window on the lasting and varied effects of deindustrialization. Now, at the tail end of the industrial moment in North American history, the story of Cape Breton Island presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Covering the period between 1860 and the early 2000s, this volume looks at trade unionism, state and cultural responses to deindustrialization, including the more recent pivot towards the tourist industry, and the lived experiences of Indigenous and Black people. Rather than focusing on the separate or distinct nature of Cape Breton, contributors place the island within broad transnational networks such as the financial world of the Anglo-Atlantic, the Celtic music revival, the Black diaspora, Canadian development programs, and more. In capturing the vital elements of a region on the rural resource frontier that was battered by deindustrialization, the histories included here show how the interplay of the state, cultures, and transnational connections shaped how people navigated these heavy pressures, both individually and collectively.

Cape Breton at 200

Cape Breton at 200
Author: Kenneth Joseph Donovan
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1985
Genre: Cape Breton Island (N.S.)
ISBN: 9780920336328

Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century

Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century
Author: Lachlan Mackinnon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781771994040

A reflection on industrialization and deindustrialization through the history of Cape Breton Island. The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the "long twentieth century" offers a particularly captivating window on the lasting and varied effects of deindustrialization. Now, at the tail end of the industrial moment in North American history, the story of Cape Breton Island presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Covering the period between 1860 and the early 2000s, this volume looks at trade unionism; state and cultural responses to deindustrialization, including the more recent pivot towards the tourist industry; and the lived experiences of Indigenous and Black people. Rather than focusing on the separate or distinct nature of Cape Breton, contributors place the island within broad transnational networks such as the financial world of the Anglo-Atlantic, the Celtic music revival, the Black diaspora, Canadian development programs, and more. In capturing the vital elements of a region on the rural resource frontier that was battered by deindustrialization, the histories included here show how the interplay of the state, cultures, and transnational connections shaped how people navigated these heavy pressures, both individually and collectively.

The Last of the Celts

The Last of the Celts
Author: Marcus Tanner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300115352

Award-winning author Tanner has journeyed throughout the Celtic world--from the wilds of Northwest Scotland to the Isle of Man, and from Boston to Cape Breton--seeking the Celtic past and what remains of authentic culture.

Guardian of the Gulf

Guardian of the Gulf
Author: Brian Douglas Tennyson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802085450

A vivid and long overdue account of one of the great untold Canadian military stories: Sydney's importance as a major convoy port, a base in the hunt for German submarines, and an industrial centre producing critically important coal and steel.