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Material History Review
Revue d'histoire de la culture
matérielle
Editorial Board /
Comité de rédaction
Editor in Chief/ Chef de la
Gerald Pocius
rédaction
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
Managing Editor I Directeur
Geoffrey Rider
administratif
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY /
MUSÉE NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOCIE
Associate Editor and French-Language
Review
Editor I Rédacteur adjoint et responsable des
comptes rendus en français
Laurier Turgeon
ISSN 1183-1073
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et de la technologie.
UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL
English Language Review Editor I
Responsable des comptes rendus en anglais
Garth Wilson
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY /
MUSÉE NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE
Production
Exhibit Review Editor I Responsable
rendus
d'expositions
Chantai Fortier
Production Co-ordinator / Coordonnateur
production
John Barton
des
comptes
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY /
MUSÉE NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE
Advisory Board I Comité
de la
English Editor I Réviseure de langue
Lynn M. Wilson
anglaise
French Editor / Réviseure de langue
Gisèle Cyr
française
consultatif
Annmarie Adams
McGiLL UNIVERSITY / UNIVERSITÉ MCGILL
Christian Bromberger
LABORATOIRE D'ETHNOLOGIE MÉDITERRANÉENNE ET
COMPARATIVE
Web site: http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca
Site web : http://www.sciences-tech.smnst.ca
Adrienne Hood
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Robin Inglis
NORTH VANCOUVER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
Richard MacKinnon
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF CAPE BRETON
Sandra Morton-Weizman
GLENBOW MUSEUM
Sandra Niessen
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
AU cover illustrations are taken from text inside;
clockwise from centre, see pages 23, 74, 72, 7, 58
and 48.
Les illustrations
de la page couverture
sont
tirées du corps de l'ouvrage : dans le sens des
aiguilles d'une montre, à partir du centre, voir
pages 23, 74, 72, 7, 58 et 48.
Brian Osborne
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY
Susan Pearce
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
Sharon Reilly
MANITOBA MUSEUM OF MAN AND NATURE
John Styles
T h e Material
History Review
gratefully
acknowledges the support of the Dean of Arts
and the Department of Folklore, Memorial
University of Newfoundland.
VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
John Summers
MARINE MUSEUM OF UPPER CANADA
Lynne Teather
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Barrie Trinder
IRONBRIDGE INSTITUTE
Dell Upton
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
La Revue d'histoire de la culture
matérielle
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doyen des Arts ainsi que par le Département
de folklore de la M e m o r i a l U n i v e r s i t y of
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Table of Contents I Table des matières
Editorial / Editorial
Ideal Forms, Practical Responses / Formes idéales, solutions pratiques
1
Articles
Through Clouded Eyes: Gas Masks and the Canadian Corps in the
First World War
T I M COOK
4
The Making of Public History: A Comparative Study of Skansen
Open Air Museum, Sweden; Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia; and
the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, Nova Scotia.
TERRY MACLEAN
. . . 21
La question de l'interculturalité en archéologie : l'exemple d'une
région du Subarctique oriental
JEAN-FRANÇOIS MOREAU
33
Research Reports / Rapports de recherche
Making a House a Home: Company Housing in Cape Breton Island
RICHARD MACKINNON
... :
46
Newfoundland Outport Furniture: Identifying Irish Regional Links
WALTER PEDDLE
57
Exhibit Reviews / Comptes rendus d'expositions
Canadian Museum of Civilization, The Painted Furniture of French
Canada, 1700-1840
JANE L. COOK
62
Clothing in Two Acts
R H O N A RICHMAN KENNEALLY
68
Musée des Arts décoratifs de Montréal, Le plaisir de l'objet :
nouveau regard sur les arts décoratifs du XXe siècle
ELISABETH N A U D
74
Media Reviews / Comptes rendus de média
CBC and BBC, Dawn of the Eye
BRYAN DEWALT
77
Rick Prelinger, Our Secret Century: Archival Films from the Darker
Side of the American Dream
SUSAN JAMES
80
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Conference Review / Rapport de colloque
Interpreting Edison
LOUISE TROTTIER
86
Book Reviews / Comptes rendus de livres
Krzysztof Dydo, Masters of Polish Poster Art
A N N A ADAMEK
89
Annette Carruthers, éd., The Scottish Home
ANNMARIE A D A M S
93
Wendy M. Watson, Altered States: Conservation, Analysis and
Interpretation of Works of Art
M A R I O N H. BARCLAY
95
Richard Teleky, Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Ethnicity,
Identity and Culture
BOZENA BlLINSKA-KORNAS
97
Jonathan F. W. Vance, Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the
First World War
LAURA BRANDON
100
Alfred W Crosby, The Measure of Reality: Quantification
and Western Society, 1250-1600
RANDALL C. BROOKS
101
Barrie Trinder, The Industrial Archaeology of Shropshire
R. JOHN CORBY
103
Stephen Fenichell, Plastic: The Making of a Synthetic Century
JACQUES R. GIARD
104
Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Curiosities
ROBIN INGLIS
105
Ralph S. Hattox, Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social
Beverage in the Medieval Near East
EDWARD J. KEALL
107
Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts, A History of European Picture
Frames
BARBARA KLEMPAN
108
Katherine Jellison, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology,
1913-1963
F R A N Z KLINGENDER
109
Michael Ann Williams, Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of
the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina
RICHARD M A C K I N N O N
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Hugh Clout, After the Ruins: Restoring the Countryside of Northern
France After the Great War
BRIAN S. OSBORNE
113
Harriet Dover, Home Front Furniture: British Utility Design, 1941
to 1951
LYDIA SHARMAN
115
Arthur J. Ray, I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated
History of Canada's Native People
CORY SILVERSTEIN
Contributors / Collaborateurs
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