Join us on Tuesday, May 7, from 4:00-6:00pm at the Old Sydney Society for the launch of Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century.
Edited by CBU’s Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon and Dr. Andy Parnaby, Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century explores the emergence, dominance and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the “long twentieth century.” At the tail end of the industrial moment in North American history, the story of Cape Breton Island presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences.