{"product_id":"made-modern-9780774837248","title":"Made Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. \u003cem\u003eMade Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History\u003c\/em\u003e draws together leading scholars from a wide range of fields to enrich our understanding of history inside and outside Canada's borders. The book's chapters examine how science and technology have allowed Canadians to imagine and reinvent themselves as modern. Focusing on topics including exploration, scientific rationality, the occult, medical instruments, patents, communication, and infrastructure, the contributors situate Canadian scientific and technological developments within larger national and transnational contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first major collection of its kind in thirty years, \u003cem\u003eMade Modern\u003c\/em\u003e explores the place of science and technology in shaping Canadians' experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are excellent case studies of historical realities that may in some sense be very Canadian, insofar as they touched upon sensitive geopolitical and power relations… They enrich our knowledge about the social function of field science, expertise, science-policy relations, and about Canadian history in ways that would have made Jarrell proud.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sverker Sörlin, professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm * Scientia Canadensis - Roundtable Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe coherence of such awide-ranging collection is achieved because ‘modernity’ within Canada – as expressed alongside the formation and definition of the idea of ‘Canadian,’ the legacies of imperialism within rational, Liberal, individualist Western nationhood, and of imperial\/territorial conflict – remains central throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Karen Sayer, Professor and Director of History, Leeds University * NiCHE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe editors of this splendid collection argue, in a sly nod to Bruno Latour, that ‘We’ve always been modern,’ or at least liked to describe ourselves as such… Bocking’s dense and accomplished piece on \"landscapes of science\" is alone worth the price of admission.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Elsbeth Heaman, associate professor, McGill University * Scientia Canadensis - Roundtable Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Science, Technology, and the Modern in Canada \/ \u003cem\u003eEdward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Bodies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Civilizing the Natives: Richard King and His Ethnographic Writings on Indigenous Northerners \/ \u003cem\u003eEfram Sera-Shriar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Scientist Tourist Sportsman Spy: Boundary-Work and the Putnam Eastern Arctic Expeditions \/ \u003cem\u003eTina Adcock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Nature’s Tonic: Electric Medicine in Urban Canada, 1880–1920 \/ \u003cem\u003eDorotea Gucciardo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Cosmic Moderns: Re-Enchanting the Body in Canada’s Atomic Age, 1931–51 \/ \u003cem\u003eBeth A. Robertson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Technologies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Second Industrial Revolution in Canadian History \/ \u003cem\u003eJames Hull\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Mysteries of the New Phone Explained: Introducing Dial Telephones and Automatic Service to Bell Canada Subscribers in the 1920s \/ \u003cem\u003eJan Hadlaw\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Small Science: Trained Acquaintance and the One-Man Research Team \/ \u003cem\u003eDavid Theodore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Paris–Montreal–Babylon: The Modernist Genealogies of Gerald Bull \/ \u003cem\u003eEdward Jones-Imhotep\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Percy Schmeiser, Roundup Ready® Canola, and Canadian Agricultural Modernity \/ \u003cem\u003eEda Kranakis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Environments\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Landscapes of Science in Canada: Modernity and Disruption \/ \u003cem\u003eStephen Bocking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 “For Canada and for Science”: Transnational Modernity and the Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1918 \/ \u003cem\u003eAndrew Stuhl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 North Stars and Sun Destinations: Time, Space, and Nation at Trans Canada Air Lines\/Air Canada, 1947–70 \/ \u003cem\u003eBlair Stein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 Negotiating High Modernism: The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project \/ \u003cem\u003eDaniel Macfarlane\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Canadian Modernity as an Icon of the Anthropocene \/ \u003cem\u003eDolly Jørgensen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404938420567,"sku":"9780774837248","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/made-modern-9780774837248","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}