ISBN:
9781459742925
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (202 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
390
Keywords:
Manners and customs
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Social historian Joanna Rickert-Hall dives into the history lived out in the margins of mainstream stories: the ex-slaves, the cholera victims, the grave digging doctor, the séance-loving politician, the rumrunner, and the sorcery-practising healer. This is Waterloo You Never Knew, revealed.
Abstract:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PART ONE - Life on the Margins: Cultivating Community -- 1 - WATERLOO COUNTY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- 2 - TRANSIENT ENTERTAINMENTS: A MENAGERIE (AND CHOLERA) COME TO TOWN -- 3 - THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MAKES A STOP IN WATERLOO COUNTY -- PART TWO - Containment -- 4 - MISFITS, MISCHIEF, AND MISFORTUNE: FITTING IN OR FALLING OUT -- 5 - THE BERLIN GAOL: INMATES AND MURDER MOST DEADLY -- 6 - THE WATERLOO COUNTY HOUSE OF INDUSTRY AND REFUGE: CASE STUDIES IN CONTRAST -- 7 - CONTAINMENT FOR CHILDREN: THE ORPHANAGES -- PART THREE - Dodgy Dealings and Risky Business -- 8 - BOOTLEGGERS, JOSEPH SEAGRAM, AND AL CAPONE -- 9 - BODYSNATCHING FOR PROFIT -- PART FOUR - In the Devil's Snare: Beyond the Veil -- 10 - WITCHCRAFT, HEALING … AND MENNONITES? -- 11 - CRYSTAL BALLS, SPIRIT GUIDES, AND PSYCHIC HEALERS: THE PRIME MINISTER, THE ARTIST, AND THE NURSE-TURNED-PSYCHIC -- PART 5 - History as Storytelling -- 12 - THE LEGEND OF OROMOCTO SPRING -- EPILOGUE -- TIMELINE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- IMAGE CREDITS -- INDEX -- Book Credits.
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