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JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION SPRING 2002
A C A D I E N S I S
REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE PRINTEMPS 2002
Editor/Directeur
RUSTY BITTERMANN
Secretary/Secrétaire
BECKEY DANIEL
Assistant Editor
LORRAINE COOPS
French Language Editor
JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER
Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction
T.W. ACHESON
ELIZABETH McGAHAN
SHEILA ANDREW
LIANNE McTAVISH
PATRICIA BELIER
GREG MARQUIS
D.G. BELL
MARC MILNER
MARION BEYEA
WILLIAM PARENTEAU
GAIL CAMPBELL
STEPHEN PATTERSON
JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER
SCOTT SEE
GREGG FINLEY
WILLIAM SPRAY
E.R. FORBES
ERIC L. SWANICK
DAVID FRANK
D.G. THOMPSON
BURTON GLENDENNING
PETER TONER
PETER C. KENT
D.M. YOUNG
MARGARET McCALLUM
Editorial Advisory Board/Comité consultatif
P.A. BUCKNER
COLIN D. HOWELL
J. MURRAY BECK
GEORGE MacBEATH
FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER
COLIN B. MacKAY
SEAN CADIGAN
IAN McKAY
J.M.S. CARELESS
R.A. MacLEAN
THOMAS J. CONDON
D.A. MUISE
MARGARET CONRAD
ROSEMARY OMMER
JEAN DAIGLE
JOHN G. REID
GWENDOLYN DAVIES
ERIC SAGER
JUDITH FINGARD
G.F.G. STANLEY
NAOMI GRIFFITHS
PETER B. WAITE
JAMES HILLER
GRAEME WYNN
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ACADIENSIS
VOL. XXXI, NO. 2 SPRING/PRINTEMPS 2002
KAREN BALCOM
Scandal and Social Policy: The Ideal Maternity Home and the Evolution of Social Policy in Nova Scotia, 1940-51 3
WILLEEN KEOUGH
The Riddle of Peggy Mountain: Regulation of Irish Women’s Sexuality on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 38
JIM PHILLIPS and ALLYSON N. MAY Female Criminality in 18th-Century Halifax 71
ROY BOURGEOIS
De croque-mort à entrepreneur de pompes funèbres : La Maritime Funeral Directors’ Association et la montée du professionnalisme au début du 20e siècle
97
MARILYN GERRIETS Agricultural Resources, Agricultural Production and Settlement at Confederation 129
FORUM
KRIS INWOOD and JIM IRWIN Land, Income and Regional Inequality: New Estimates of Provincial Income and Growth in Canada, 1871-1891
157
REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES
LUCA CODIGNOLA
North American Discovery and Exploration Historiography, 1993-2001: From Old-Fashioned Anniversaries to the Tall Order of Global History? ............ 185
PETER KENT
The Unrealized Potential of Canada’s Universities ............................................... 207
ALAN MacEACHERN Voices Crying in the Wilderness: Recent Works in Canadian Environmental History ............................................... 215
BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region ..................... 227