Canada 150 Collection – serie
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26 produkter
Atlantic Region to Confederation
A History
E-bok, 1994
588 kr
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Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is …
Atlantic Region to Confederation
A History
E-bok, 1994
672 kr
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Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is …
Gutenberg Galaxy
E-bok, 2011
554 kr
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The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before. Readers will be amazed by McLuhan’s prescience, unmatched by anyone since, …
Black Loyalists
The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870
E-bok, 1999
559 kr
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There is a Canadian myth about the Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution for Canada. The myth says they were white, upper-class citizens devoted to British ideals, transplanting the best of colonial American society to British North America. In reality, more than 10 per …
West Beyond the West
A History of British Columbia
Av Jean Barman
E-bok, 2007
604 kr
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British Columbia is regularly described in superlatives both positive and negative - most spectacular scenery, strangest politics, greatest environmental sensitivity, richest Aboriginal cultures, most aggressive resource exploitation, closest ties to Asia. Jean Barman's The West beyond the West …
West Beyond the West
A History of British Columbia
Av Jean Barman
E-bok, 2007
604 kr
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British Columbia is regularly described in superlatives both positive and negative - most spectacular scenery, strangest politics, greatest environmental sensitivity, richest Aboriginal cultures, most aggressive resource exploitation, closest ties to Asia. Jean Barman's The West beyond the West …
Canada's Founding Debates
Av Janet Ajzenstat, Paul Romney m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
500 kr
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Canada's Founding Debates is about Confederation—about the process that brought together six out of the seven territories of British North America in the years 1864-73 to form a country called Canada. It presents excerpts from the debates on Confederation in all of the colonial parliaments from …
Toronto, No Mean City
Häftad, 2017
456 kr
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Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City …
Just Words
Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs
Av Joel Bakan
Häftad, 2017
289 kr
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The Canadian Charter of Rights is composed of words that describe the foundations of a just society: equality, freedom, and democracy. These words of justice have inspired struggles for civil rights, self-determination, trade unionism, the right to vote, and social welfare. Why is it, then, that …
Atlantic Region to Confederation
A History
Häftad, 2017
500 kr
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Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is …
Newfoundland and Labrador
A History
Av Sean Cadigan
Häftad, 2017
427 kr
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Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of Newfoundland and Labrador joining Canada, Sean T. Cadigan has written the book that will surely become the definitive history of one of North America's most distinct and beautiful regions. The site of the first European settlement by Vikings …
Odysseys Home
Mapping African-Canadian Literature
Häftad, 2017
558 kr
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Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of …
Bad Attitude(s) on Trial
Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
Av Shannon Bell, Brenda Cossman m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
335 kr
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Bad Attitude(s) on Trial is a critical analysis of pornography in the context of contemporary Canada. The notion that pornography both reflects sexual domination and 'victimizes' women has recently found expression in law in the landmark Canadian Supreme Court decision of R. v. Butler (1992). Many …
Nation of Immigrants
Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s
Av Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
471 kr
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This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field. The …
Toronto, No Mean City
Av Eric Arthur
E-bok, 2017
571 kr
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Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto''s past. Toronto, No Mean City …
Atlantic Region to Confederation
A History
E-bok, 2017
641 kr
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Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is …
Canada's Navy
The First Century, Second Edition
Av Marc Milner
E-bok, 2017
621 kr
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From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada''s navy - now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary - has been an expression of …
Black Loyalists
The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870
E-bok, 2017
521 kr
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There is a Canadian myth about the Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution for Canada. The myth says they were white, upper-class citizens devoted to British ideals, transplanting the best of colonial American society to British North America. In reality, more than 10 per …
Struggle for Canadian Sport
Av Bruce Kidd
Häftad, 2017
398 kr
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Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars. The middle-class amateur men's organizations which dominated Canadian sports since the mid-nineteenth century steadily lost ground, swamped by the rise of consumer culture and badly battered and split by the …
In Times Like These
Häftad, 2017
326 kr
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Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extension of traditional views of female moral superiority and maternal responsibility.
Prophet in Politics
A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth
Häftad, 2017
411 kr
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In this elegant and rigorously researched work, Kenneth McNaught details the life, work, and principles of J.S Woodsworth and shows the powerful moral and political force that the pacifist, Methodist thinker exerted on Canadian politics.Woodsworth first went to the House of Commons in 1922, and …
Canada's Navy
The First Century, Second Edition
Av Marc Milner
Häftad, 2017
471 kr
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From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy - now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary - has been an expression of …
Northern Voices
Inuit Writings in English
Av Penny Petrone, Penny Petrone
Häftad, 2017
449 kr
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Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral tradition in their ancient languages and a more recent tradition of written English. Penny Petrone traces the two paths that link the cultural past of arctic peoples with its expression in the present day. The book's first section includes traditional …
Persons Case
The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood
Av Robert Sharpe, Patricia I. McMahon
Häftad, 2017
328 kr
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On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's …
Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective
Häftad, 2017
355 kr
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The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective is the first scholarly study of the Senate in over a quarter century and the first analysis of the upper house as one chamber of a bicameral legislature. David E. Smith's aim in this work is to demonstrate the interrelationship of the two chambers and …
Black Loyalists
The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870
Häftad, 2017
456 kr
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There is a Canadian myth about the Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution for Canada. The myth says they were white, upper-class citizens devoted to British ideals, transplanting the best of colonial American society to British North America. In reality, more than 10 per …
