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Art of Sharing
The Richer versus the Poorer Provinces since Confederation
Av Mary Janigan
Häftad, 2020
514 kr
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In 1957 after a century of scathing debates and threats of provincial separation Ottawa finally tackled the dangerous fiscal inequalities among its richer and poorer provinces. Equalization grants allowed the poorer provinces to provide relatively equal services for relatively equal levels of …
Recognition and Revelation
Short Nonfiction Writings
Av Margaret Laurence, Nora Foster Stovel
Häftad, 2020
574 kr
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Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. She was also an accomplished essayist, yet today her nonfiction writing is largely unavailable and therefore little known. In Recognition and Revelation Nora Foster …
Anxious Days and Tearful Nights
Canadian War Wives During the Great War
Av Martha Hanna
Häftad, 2020
470 kr
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What was it like to be a soldier's wife in Canada during the First World War? More than 80,000 Canadian women were married to men who left home to fight in the war, and its effects on their lives were transformative and often traumatic. Yet the everyday struggles of Canadian war wives, lived far …
Take a Number
How Citizens' Encounters with Government Shape Political Engagement
Häftad, 2020
485 kr
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Inspired by American studies of the impact of government programs on clients' political activity, Take a Number breaks new ground by investigating the lessons that people draw from their experiences with government bureaucracies, reaching very different conclusions about the effects of program …
Mrs Dalgairns's Kitchen
Rediscovering "The Practice of Cookery"
Inbunden, 2021
560 kr
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When The Practice of Cookery first appeared in Edinburgh and London editions in 1829, reviewers hailed it as one of the best cookbooks available. The book was unique not only in being wholly original, but also for its broad culinary influences, incorporating recipes from British North America, the …
Hall-Dennis and the Road to Utopia
Education and Modernity in Ontario
Av Josh Cole
Häftad, 2021
457 kr
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The quarter century that followed the end of the Second World War was marked by intense social and economic transformation: the changing face of postwar capitalism, a revolution in communications technology, the rise of youth culture, and the pronounced ascent of individual freedom all contributed …
Blacks in Canada
A History
Häftad, 2021
515 kr
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Blacks in Canada journeys from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. Heralded in the Literary Review of Canada as one of the one hundred most important Canadian books, this enduring work by Yale University's Robin W. Winks offers a …
Canada to Ireland
Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism, 1788–1900
Inbunden, 2021
1821 kr
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Irish writers played a key role in transatlantic cultural conversations – among Canada, Britain, France, America, and Indigenous nations – that shaped Canadian nationalism. Nationalism in Ireland was likewise influenced by the literary works of Irish …
Canada to Ireland
Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism, 1788–1900
Häftad, 2021
510 kr
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Irish writers played a key role in transatlantic cultural conversations – among Canada, Britain, France, America, and Indigenous nations – that shaped Canadian nationalism. Nationalism in Ireland was likewise influenced by the literary works of Irish …
University Women
A History of Women and Higher Education in Canada
Inbunden, 2021
1631 kr
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Bessie Scott, nearing the end of her first year at university in the spring of 1890, recorded in her diary: "Wore my gown for first time! It didn't seem at all strange to do so." Often deemed a cumbersome tradition by men, the cap and gown were dearly prized by women as an outward sign of their …
University Women
A History of Women and Higher Education in Canada
Häftad, 2021
457 kr
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Bessie Scott, nearing the end of her first year at university in the spring of 1890, recorded in her diary: “Wore my gown for first time! It didn’t seem at all strange to do so.” Often deemed a cumbersome tradition by men, the cap and gown were dearly prized by women as an outward sign of their …
Harriet’s Legacies
Race, Historical Memory, and Futures in Canada
Av Ronald Cummings, Natalee Caple
Inbunden, 2022
413 kr
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Historic freedom fighter and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman risked her life to ferry enslaved people from America to freedom in Canada. Her legacy instigates and orients this exploration of the history of Black lives and the future of collective struggle in Canada.Harriet’s …
Regulatory Failure and Renewal
The Evolution of the Natural Monopoly Contract, Second Edition
Inbunden, 2022
1515 kr
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Regulatory Failure and Renewal develops a framework to understand the choice of regulatory instrument used in Canada for natural monopolies such as telephone companies, water utilities, streetcars, hydroelectricity, and railways from the 1880s to the 1930s.Using the transaction-cost literature …
Regulatory Failure and Renewal
The Evolution of the Natural Monopoly Contract, Second Edition
Häftad, 2022
399 kr
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Regulatory Failure and Renewal develops a framework to understand the choice of regulatory instrument used in Canada for natural monopolies such as telephone companies, water utilities, streetcars, hydroelectricity, and railways from the 1880s to the 1930s.Using the transaction-cost literature …
Eye of the Master
Figures of the Québécois Colonial Imaginary
Av Dalie Giroux
Inbunden, 2023
349 kr
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In the Québécois political vision of the twentieth century, sovereignty became synonymous with mastery. French Canadians sometimes claimed solidarity with racialized and Indigenous peoples, yet they saw their liberation as a matter of taking their rightful place in the seat of the oppressors. The …
Trade and Commerce
Canada’s Economic Constitution
Inbunden, 2023
523 kr
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In recent decades, the economic framework of Canada’s Constitution has been a subject largely neglected by judges, scholars, and commentators. Trade and Commerce fills this gap by bringing to light a lost understanding of how the Constitution structures economic relations.As Malcolm Lavoie reveals, …
Canadian Literary Fare
Av Nathalie Cooke, Shelley Boyd
Inbunden, 2023
1691 kr
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When writers place food in front of their characters – who after all do not need sustenance – they are asking readers to be alert to the meaning and implication of food choices. As readers begin to listen closely to these cues, they become attuned to increasingly layered stories about why it …
Canadian Literary Fare
Av Nathalie Cooke, Shelley Boyd
Häftad, 2023
477 kr
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When writers place food in front of their characters – who after all do not need sustenance – they are asking readers to be alert to the meaning and implication of food choices. As readers begin to listen closely to these cues, they become attuned to increasingly layered stories about why it …
Small Stories of War
Children, Youth, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond
Av Barbara Lorenzkowski, Kristine Alexander m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
457 kr
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Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration, displacement, and armed conflict. Small …
Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter
Inbunden, 2023
1681 kr
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Born in Winnipeg to Icelandic immigrants in 1890, Laura Goodman Salverson embarked on a life marked by contradiction and cultural exchange. Her 1939 memoir braids the strands of her parents’ intellectual life in Iceland with a hardscrabble existence on the Prairies at the turn of the century, all …
Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter
Häftad, 2023
471 kr
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Born in Winnipeg to Icelandic immigrants in 1890, Laura Goodman Salverson embarked on a life marked by contradiction and cultural exchange. Her 1939 memoir braids the strands of her parents’ intellectual life in Iceland with a hardscrabble existence on the Prairies at the turn of the century, all …
Statesman of the Piano
Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper
Av Sean Mills, Eric Fillion m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
457 kr
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Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894–1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, performing alongside Paul Robeson and recording extensively in and around Tin Pan Alley, before moving …
Great Right North
Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada
Av Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Samuel Tanner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1246 kr
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In February 2021 the Canadian government published a considerably expanded list of domestic terrorist entities. While some, such as Blood and Honour, were already known, others – such as Atomwaffen Division, the Base, the Proud Boys, and the Russian Imperial Movement – emerged from the shadows. …
Great Right North
Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada
Av Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Samuel Tanner m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
331 kr
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In February 2021 the Canadian government published a considerably expanded list of domestic terrorist entities. While some, such as Blood and Honour, were already known, others – such as Atomwaffen Division, the Base, the Proud Boys, and the Russian Imperial Movement – emerged from the shadows. …
Cold War Classrooms
Global Insecurity and Postwar Public Education in Ontario
Häftad, 2027
430 kr
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The early Cold War sparked intense debate in Canada over how to prepare children for a divided and dangerous world. The exposure of a Soviet spy ring in Ottawa in 1946 and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic’s atomic bomb test in 1949 made the twin threats of communism and nuclear war feel …
In Granite and Bronze
A Guide to Monuments in Canada's National Capital
Av Tonya K. Davidson, David Dean
Häftad, 2027
430 kr
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Monuments preserve history, but they also have fascinating histories of their own. Drawing on the knowledge and insights of more than one hundred contributors across diverse disciplines and perspectives, In Granite and Bronze is an engaging and comprehensive guide to the monuments and memorials of …
Robert Laird Borden
His Memoirs, Volume I
Av Robert Laird Borden, Heath Macquarrie
Häftad, 1969
519 kr
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The memoirs of Sir Robert Borden are honest, straightforward, and fair; qualities similar to those possessed by the unpretentious Nova Scotia lawyer who became leader of the Conservative Party and Canada's prime minister during World War One.
Dominion Lands Policy
Av Chester Martin, Lewis H. Thomas
Häftad, 1973
431 kr
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First published in 1938, this work is important for an understanding of the settlement of the three prairie provinces and of the implementation of the National Policy initiated by Sir John A. Macdonald.
Cuthbert Grant of Grantown
Häftad, 1963
504 kr
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This book examines the Métis settlement of Grantown, the controversial "massacre" of Seven Oaks, the Siouan wars and the Red River settlement's fight for survival.
Crisis of Quebec, 1914-1918
Häftad, 1974
519 kr
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The Crisis of Quebec was first published in 1937 and remains the most vivid and comprehensive study of the conscription crisis of 1917.
