Civil War in Siberia by Jonathan D. Smele

Pour ce faire, de nombreux documents (livres, articles de périodiques et de journaux, actes de colloques, etc.) ont été analysés. La présente étude a pour but d'expliquer la nature et l'orientation du débat actuel sur la mise en histoire du passé du Canada. Ultimately, through the process of building, communities of religious women not only authorized their social importance but also negotiated the terms of their gender, religious, class, ethnic and sexual identities. reveals that a heterogeneous group of people who did not fit neatly into the expected triad of client, architect and builder, shaped the architecture of charity. The analysis of the building process from the first decision to erect an edifice to its final dedication. Shifts in style and form of buildings reflected changes in North American attitudes towards charity as well as changes within the religious community’s own administrative structures.

Building campaigns coincided with broader construction cycles and historical crises. With this extensive inventory and data collected from various archival sources and first-band documentation, we identify and interpolate trends to apprehend the ways the nuns' network was implemented and maintained. Because it allows us to track overall patterns, a large sample promises a better understanding of the conventual landscape than do isolated, building-specific case studies. Taken as a series of artifacts rather than as discrete objects, the 250 buildings that the Grey Nuns and the Sisters of Providence erected and administered across North America povide an index to larger social, cultural, economic, political, and religious change in a period of industrialization. Discovering how these institutional landscapes were organized and built not only provides insight into these ubiquitous buildings, but also the ways in which struggles over Church, State, individual and communal power were resolved in architectural terms.

These structures have remained unexamined within the history of architecture despite their prominence in the landscape and in society. Different types of buildings and site - convents, hospital, orphanages, creches, hospices, asylums, dispensaries, and schools - comprised this social and physical infrastructure during the period between the mid-nineteenth century religious revival and the eve of Vatican ll.

The convents and charitable institutional buildings that two French-Canadian Catholic communities of women, the Grey Nuns and the Sisters of Providence, established between 18 sustained a social service network that extended from their headquarters in Montreal across Canada and the United States.

Civil War in Siberia by Jonathan D. Smele