Fall/Winter 2006 - University of Toronto Press Publishing

H I S T O R Y
Household Counts
Canadian Households and Families in 1901
Edited by Eric W. Sager and Peter Baskerville
The Canadian census taken in 1901 has surprising
things to say about the family as a social grouping
and cultural construct at the turn of the twentieth
century. Although the nuclear-family household
was the most frequent type of household, family
was not a singular form or structure at all; rather, it
was a fluid micro-social community through which
people lived and moved. There was no one “traditional”
family, but rather many types of families
and households, each with its own history.
In Household Counts, editors Eric W. Sager
and Peter Baskerville bring together an impressive
array of scholars including Bettina Bradbury,
Teter Gossage, and Ken Sylvester, to explore the
demographic context of families in Canada using
the 1901 census. Split into five sections, the collection
covers such topics as family demography,
urban families, the young and old, family and social
history, and smaller groups as well. The remarkable
plasticity of family and household that Household
Counts reveals is of critical importance to our
understanding of nation-building in Canada. This
collection not only makes an important contribution
to family history, but also to the widening
intellectual exploration of historical censuses.
Eric W. Sager is a professor in the Department of
History at the University of Victoria.
Peter Baskerville is a professor in the Department of
History at the University of Victoria.
The English Factory in
Siam 1612–1685
Anthony Farrington and Dhiravat na Pombejra
THE BRITISH LIBRARY
Seventeenth-century Siam was a remarkably open
society, where at the great port city of Ayutthaya
the English found themselves interacting and competing
not only with their hosts, but also with
Persians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesians,
Portuguese, French and Dutch. The English Factory
in Siam 1612–1685 contains more than 700 documents
from the archives of the English East India
Company, making it an important new source for
the history of Southeast Asia.
The surviving documents range from business
correspondence, commodity accounts and ships’
journals to more intimate letters home, bitter
denunciations of rivals, and vicious pamphleteering.
The cast of characters includes Siamese kings
and high officials, East India Company servants,
renegade Englishmen, and the amazing Constantine
Phaulkon, a former Company employee of Greek
origin who became a Siamese minister, invited a
French army into Siam, and was executed in a palace
coup in 1688. This two-volume text is sure to
become an invaluable reference tool for historical
research.
Anthony Farrington was formerly head of the India
Office Records at the British Library.
Dhiravat na Pombejra of Chulalongkom University,
Bangkok, is a specialist in the history of Thailand’s
foreign relations.
Approx. 272 pp / 6 x 9 / November 2006
Cloth ISBN 0-8020-3860-3 / 978-0-8020-3860-9
£42.00 $65.00 E
Paper ISBN 0-8020-3802-6 / 978-0-8020-3802-9
£22.50 $35.00 C
1900 pp / 2 volumes / 6 x 9 / October 2006
Cloth ISBN 0-7123-4928-6 / 978-0-7123-4928-4
$400.00 E
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