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Ward draws upon a rich record of events and opinion in the provincial press, manuscript collections, and successive federal enquiries and royal commissions on Asian immigration. He locates the origins of west coast racism in the frustrated vision of a white British Columbia and an unshakeable belief in the unassimilability of the Asian immigrant. Canadian attitudes were dominated by a series of interlocking, hostile stereotypes derived from western perceptions of Asia and modified by the encounter between whites and Asians on the north Pacific coast. Public pressure on local, provincial, and federal governments led to discriminatory policies in the field of immigration and employment, and culminated in the forced relocation of west coast Japanese residents during World War II.
Chinese --- Japanese --- East Indians --- Public opinion --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Public opinion. --- British Columbia --- Colombie-Britannique --- British Columbia (Colony) --- Colony of British Columbia --- United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia --- Brits-Kolombië --- Britaniya Kolumbiyası --- Брытанская Калумбія --- Brytanskai︠a︡ Kalumbii︠a︡ --- Britanska Kolumbija --- Британска Колумбия --- Britanska Kolumbii︠a︡ --- Colúmbia Britànica --- Britská Kolumbie --- Britisk Columbia --- Britisch-Kolumbien --- Briti Columbia --- Βρετανικη Κολομβια --- Vretanikē Kolomvia --- Province of British Columbia --- B.C. (British Columbia) --- BC --- C.-B. (Province) --- Vancouver Island (Colony) --- Race relations.
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Courtship, love, and marriage are seen today as very private affairs, and historians have generally concluded that after the late eighteenth century young people began to enjoy great autonomy in courtship and decisions about marriage. Peter Ward disagrees with this conclusion and argues that freedom in nineteenth-century English Canada was constrained by an intricate social, institutional, and familial framework which greatly influenced the behaviour of young couples both before and after marriage.
Courtship --- Marriage customs and rites --- Anthropology --- Manners & Customs --- Social Sciences --- Bridal customs --- Betrothal --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Weddings --- Courting --- Wooing --- Love --- Love-letters --- Marriage --- History --- Canada --- 19th century --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs.
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"How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene revolution. In the age of Louis XIV bathing was rare and hygiene was mainly a matter of wearing clean underclothes. By the late twentieth century frequent - often daily - bathing had become the norm and wearing freshly laundered clothing the general practice. Cleanliness, once simply a requirement for good health, became an essential element of beauty. Beneath this transformation lay a sea change in understandings, motives, ideologies, technologies, and practices, all of which shaped popular habits over time. Peter Ward explains that what began as an urban bourgeois phenomenon in the later eighteenth century became a universal condition by the end of the twentieth, touching young and old, rich and poor, city dwellers and country residents alike. Based on a wealth of sources in English, French, German, and Italian, The Clean Body surveys the great hygienic transformation that took place across Europe and North America over the course of four centuries."--
Hygiene --- Laundry --- Bathing customs --- Baths --- Bathing beaches --- Clothing and dress --- Washing (Laundry) --- Cleaning --- Body care --- Cleanliness --- Human body --- Personal body care --- Personal cleanliness --- Personal hygiene --- Medicine, Preventive --- Health --- Sanitation --- History --- history --- Care and hygiene --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Europe --- North America --- Hygiene. --- History. --- history. --- Western countries. --- Westliche Welt --- Westliche Staaten --- Westen --- Der Westen --- Kapitalistische Staaten --- Industriestaaten --- Westmächte --- Nichtwestliche Welt --- Occident --- Western countries --- Western nations --- Western world --- Developed countries
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