Bøger af Doug Owram

War, depression, secularization, urbanization, and the rise of industry - between 1900 and 1945 Canada struggled with all these developments and from them was born the modern welfare state. Doug Owram looks at that debate and those who engaged in the wisdom of planning and reform, and on practical schemes for their realization.

Doug Owram analyses the various phases of this development, examining in particular the writings - historical, scientific, journalistic, and promotional - that illuminate one of the most significant movements in the history of nineteenth-century Canada.

From Davy Crockett hats and Barbie dolls to the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution, the concerns of the baby-boomers became predominant themes for all of society. The first Canadian history of a legendary generation.

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