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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionNone Is Too ManyCanada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948Paperback
Irving Abella9781487516529
$43.95HISTORY
May 24, 2017
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust Category) Winner of the Canadian Historical Association John A. Macdonald Prize Featured in The Literary Review of Canada 100: Canada’s Most Important Books[This] is a story best summed up in the words of an anonymous senior Canadian official who, in the midst of a rambling, off-the-record discussion with journalists in 1945, was asked how many Jews would be allowed into Canada after the war … ‘None,’ he said, ‘is too many.’From the PrefaceOne of the most significant studies of Canadian his... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionCanada's Founding DebatesPaperback
Janet Ajzenstat9781487516536
$54.00HISTORY
May 25, 2017
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 Newfoundland to British Columbia and in the constituent assembly of the Red River Colony. The voices of the powerful and those of lesser note mingle in impassioned debate on the pros and cons of creating or joining the new country, and in defining its na... + Read More
The year 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of Confederation and the 1867 Constitution Act. Anniversaries like these are often seized upon as opportunities for retrospection. This volume, by contrast, takes a distinctively forward-looking approach. Featuring essays from both emerging and established scholars, The Canadian Constitution in Transition reflects on the ideas that will shape the development of Canadian constitutional law in the decades to come. Moving beyond the frameworks that previous generations used to organize constitutional thin... + Read More
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Series: Autonomous StateThe Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free TradePaperback
Dimitry Anastakis9781442612976
$54.00BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Feb 19, 2013
Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country’s most important economic sector, in the post-war period. In this engrossing book, Dimitry Anastakis chronicles the industry’s evolution from the 1973 OPEC embargo to the 1989 Canada–US Free Trade Agreement and looks at its effects on public policy, diplomacy, business enterprise, workers, consumers, and firms.Using an immense array of archival sources, and interviews with some of the key actors in the events, Anastakis examines a fascinating arr... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionToronto, No Mean CityPaperback
Eric Arthur9781487516543
$48.95HISTORY
May 25, 2017
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 sounded a clarion call in his crusade. First published in 1964, it sparked the preservation movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became its bible. This reprint of the third edition, prepared by Stephen Otto, updates Arthur's classic to include information... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionThe West Beyond the WestA History of British Columbia3rd editionPaperback
Jean Barman9781487516567
$56.00HISTORY
May 25, 2017
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 presents the history of the province in all its diversity and apparent contradictions. This critically acclaimed work is the premiere book on British Columbian history, with a narrative beginning at the point of contact between Native peoples and Europea... + Read More
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Series: UTP InsightsThe Lamb and the TigerFrom Peacekeepers to Peacewarriors in CanadaPaperback
Stanley Barrett9781487522636
$32.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 29, 2018
Canada’s transition from a peacekeeping power to military muscle.This book focuses on the broad implications of the transformation of Canada from a peacekeeping to a war-making nation during the Conservative Party’s recent decade in power. Funds were poured into the Canadian Forces, and a newly militarized nation found itself entrenched in conflicts around the globe. For decades, Canada had played a leading role in UN peacekeeping, and when the Cold War ended, the prospect of international harmony was infectious. Yet in short order hostilities ... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Atlantic Canada HistoryThe Centennial CureCommemoration, Identity, and Cultural Capital in Nova Scotia during Canada's 1967 Centennial CelebrationsPaperback
Meaghan Beaton9781487521523
$38.95HISTORY
Mar 31, 2017
In The Centennial Cure, the second volume in the Studies in Atlantic Canada History series, Meaghan Elizabeth Beaton critically examines the intersection of state policy, cultural development, and commemoration in Nova Scotia during Canada’s centennial celebrations. Beaton’s engaging and insightful analysis of four case studies– the establishment of the Cape Breton Miners’ Museum, the construction of Halifax’s Centennial Swimming Pool, the Community Improvement Program, and the 1967 Nova Scotia Highland Games and Folk Festival–reveals the pro... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Gender and HistoryPurchasing PowerWomen and the Rise of Canadian Consumer CulturePaperback
Donica Belisle9781442629110
$34.95HISTORY
Mar 12, 2020
Exploring the roots of Canadian consumer culture between the 1890s and the Second World War, Purchasing Power uncovers the meanings that Canadians have attached to consumer goods. Offering a new perspective on the temperance, conservation, home economics, feminist, and co-operative movements of this period, this book brings women’s consumer interests to the fore. Due to their exclusion from formal politics and most paid employment, many Canadian women leveraged their consumer roles into personal and social opportunities. In the consumer sphere,... + Read More
A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada. Norton saw more action during the conflict than almost anyone else, being present at the fall of Detroit; the capture of Fort Niagara; the battles of Queenston Heights, Fort George, Stoney Creek, Chippawa, and Lundy’s Lane; the blockades of Fort George and Fort Erie; and a large number of skirmishes and front-line patrols. His memoir describes ... + Read More
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Series: VIVA MACAIDS, Fashion, and the Philanthropic Practices of MAC CosmeticsPaperback
Andrea Benoit9781487520281
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 17, 2019
This is the first cultural history of the originally Canadian company M·A·C Cosmetics, charting the evolution of their unusual corporate philanthropy around HIV/AIDS awareness.This is the first cultural history of the originally Canadian company M·A·C Cosmetics, charting the evolution of M·A·C’s unusual corporate philanthropy around HIV/AIDS awareness. The book situates M·A·C’s remarkable corporate philanthropy within three cultural and social phenomena of the 1980s and 1990s: the revitalization of the Toronto fashion industry, the evolution of... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Gender and HistoryThe Viking ImmigrantsIcelandic North AmericansPaperback
L.K. Bertram9781442613669
$41.95HISTORY
Mar 13, 2020
A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic Nor... + Read More
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Series: Celebrating CanadaCommemorations, Anniversaries, and National SymbolsPaperback
Raymond B. Blake9781442627147
$49.95HISTORY
Feb 15, 2018
Popular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues the scholarly debate about commemoration and national identity. Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday bring together emerging and established scholars to consider key moments in Canadian history when major anniversaries of Canada’s political, social... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionThe Discovery of InsulinPaperback
Michael Bliss9781487516574
$33.95MEDICAL
May 24, 2017
The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin was a wonder-drug with ability to bring patients back from the very brink of death, and it was no surprise that in 1923 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to its discoverers, the Canadian research team of Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod. In this engaging and award-winning account, historian Michael Bliss recounts the fascinating story behind the discovery of insulin – a story as much ... + Read More
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Series: The Right RelationshipReimagining the Implementation of Historical TreatiesPaperback
John Borrows9781442630215
$51.00POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 17, 2017
The relationship between Canada’s Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government is one that has increasingly come to the fore. Numerous tragic incidents and a legacy of historical negligence combined with more vehement calls for action is forcing a reconsideration of the relationship between the federal government and Indigenous nations. In The Right Relationship, John Borrows and Michael Coyle bring together a group of renowned scholars, both indigenous and non-indigenous, to cast light on the magnitude of the challenges Canadians face in see... + Read More
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Series: Northern StarJ.S. PlaskettHardcover
R. Peter Broughton9781442630178
$106.00HISTORY
Jan 24, 2018
John Stanley Plaskett was Canada’s pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the twentieth century. His legacy lives on in the observatory he founded in Victoria, British Columbia, and the reputation he built for Canada as a nation making vital contributions to basic science. Plaskett’s pioneering work with the most massive stars and his definitive determination of the rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy earned him international recognition of the highest order. Northern Star explores Plaskett’s unorthodox and fascinating life from his rural roo... + Read More
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Series: The Sisters of Our Lady of the MissionsFrom Ultramontane Origins to a New CosmologyHardcover
Rosa Bruno-Jofre9781487505646
$87.00HISTORY
Dec 13, 2019
This book traces the journey taken by the Canadian Province of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions / Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions (RNDM), from its establishment in Manitoba in 1898 to 2008, when the congregation as a whole redefined its mission and vision. Using archival research conducted in Canada, England, and Italy and incorporating oral interviews with RNDM sisters, this book explores the historical work of the sisters in schools and the part they played in the developing educational state. The congregation’s activities in sc... + Read More
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 required, to convey the state of our knowledge in the 1990s. Many of the themes important to today's historians, notably those relating to social class, gender, and ethnicity, have been fully developed only since 1970. Important advances have been mad... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionNewfoundland and LabradorA HistoryPaperback
Sean Cadigan9781487516604
$45.95HISTORY
May 24, 2017
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 one thousand years ago, a former colony of England, and known at various times as Terra Nova and Newfoundland until its official name change to Newfoundland and Labrador in 2001, this easternmost point of the continent has had a fascinating history in p... + Read More
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Series: Munk Series on Global AffairsQuebec in a Global LightReaching for the Common GroundPaperback
Robert Calderisi9781487523459
$26.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jul 15, 2019
To the outside world, Quebec is Canada’s most distinctive province. To many Canadians, it has sometimes seemed the most troublesome. But, over the last quarter century, quietly but steadily, it has wrestled successfully with two of the West’s most daunting challenges: protecting national values in the face of mass immigration and striking a proper balance between economic efficiency and a sound social safety net. Quebec has also taken a lead in fighting climate change. Yet, many people – including many Quebeckers – are unaware of this progress ... + Read More
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Series: "I wish to keep a record"Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their WorldPaperback
Gail Campbell9781487520182
$50.00HISTORY
Mar 24, 2017
Nineteenth-century New Brunswick society was dominated by white, Protestant, Anglophone men. Yet, during this time of state formation in Canada, women increasingly helped to define and shape a provincial outlook. I wish to keep a record is the first book to focus exclusively on the life-course experiences of nineteenth-century New Brunswick women. Gail G. Campbell offers an interpretive scholarly analysis of 28 women’s diaries while enticing readers to listen to the voices of the diarists. Their diaries show women constructing themselves as ind... + Read More
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Series: Not Good Enough for CanadaCanadian Public Discourse around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases and/or Disabilities, 1902-2002Paperback
Valentina Capurri9781487523237
$45.95HISTORY
Nov 29, 2019
Valentina Capurri addresses a topic that has been so far largely ignored, and poses new questions on how immigration and disability in Canada have been constructed.Not Good Enough for Canada investigates the development of Canadian immigration policy with respect to persons with a disease or disability throughout the twentieth century. With an emphasis on social history, this book examines the way the state operates through legislation to achieve its goals of self-preservation even when such legislation contradicts state commitments to equality... + Read More
Lori Chamber's fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921. This volume explores a wide range of themes and issues in the history of adoption including: the reasons for the creation of statutory adoption, the increasing voice of unmarried fathers in newborn adoption, the reasons for movement away from secrecy in adoption, the evolution of step-parent adoption, the adoption of Indigenous children, and the growth of international adoption. Unlike other works on adoption, this ... + Read More
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Series: Merry HellThe Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919Paperback
Brian Tennyson9781487523138
$31.95HISTORY
Apr 12, 2018
Merry Hell is the only complete history of the 25th Canadian infantry battalion, which was recruited in the autumn and winter of 1914–15 and served overseas from spring 1915 until spring 1919. Author Robert N Clements, who served in the battalion throughout that period and rose from private to captain, wrote the story many years after the war, based on his personal memories and experiences. As such, his story reflects two unique perspectives on Canadian military history – the remarkably fresh recollections and anecdotes of a veteran, and the ou... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Atlantic Canada HistoryAt the Ocean's EdgeA History of Nova Scotia to ConfederationPaperback
Margaret Conrad9781487523954
$45.95HISTORY
Jun 16, 2020
At the Ocean’s Edge offers a vibrant account of Nova Scotia’s colonial history, situating it in an early and dramatic chapter in the expansion of Europe. Between 1450 and 1850, various processes – sometimes violent, often judicial, rarely conclusive – transferred power first from Indigenous societies to the French and British empires, and then to European settlers and their descendants who claimed the land as their own. This book not only brings Nova Scotia’s struggles into sharp focus but also unpacks the intellectual and social values that to... + Read More
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Series: The Regenerators, 2nd EditionSocial Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada2nd editionPaperback
Ramsay Cook9781442629196
$42.95HISTORY
May 11, 2016
A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. With their religious beliefs challenged by the new biological sciences and historical criticism of the Bible, they turned from personal salvation to the dire social problems of the industrial age. The Regenerators explores the nature of social criticism in this era and its complex ties to the religious thinking of the day, showing how the path blazed by nineteenth-century religious liberals led not to the Kingdom of God on earth, but, ironically, to the secul... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionThe Voyages of Jacques CartierPaperback
Ramsay Cook9781487516628
$34.95HISTORY
May 24, 2017
Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534, 1535, and 1541constitute the first record of European impressions of the St Lawrence region of northeastern North American and its peoples. The Voyages are rich in details about almost every aspect of the region's environment and the people who inhabited it.As Ramsay Cook points out in his introduction, Cartier was more than an explorer; he was also Canada's first ethnographer. His accounts provide a wealth of information about the native people of the region and their relations with each other. Indirectly, he... + Read More
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This newly created economy was visibly part of the Atlantic capitalist system yet different in several major ways.In Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists, Béatrice Craig examines and describes this economy from its origins in the native fur trade, the growth of exporta... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionThe Empire of the St. LawrenceA Study in Commerce and PoliticsPaperback
Donald Creighton9781487516642
$48.95HISTORY
May 31, 2017
Originally published in 1937 as "The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760-1850" and re-issued in its present form in 1956, Donald Creighton's study of the St. Lawrence became an essential text in Canadian history courses. This, his first book, helped establish Creighton as the foremost English Canadian historian of his generation. In it, he examines the trading system that developed along the St. Lawrence River and he argues that the exploitation of key staple products by colonial merchants along the St. Lawrence River system was key to ... + Read More
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Series: John A. MacDonaldThe Young Politician, The Old ChieftainPaperback
Donald Creighton9781487522872
$70.00HISTORY
Apr 12, 2018
First published in 1952 and 1955, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain remains a classic in Canadian arts and letters. Described as the greatest biography ever written in Canada, it earned Donald Creighton two Governor General's Awards. In 2013, the Toronto Review of Books recommended it to anyone who wished to become a better Canadian. In this book, Creighton examines the public and private lives of Canada’s first prime minister, his victories and defeats as well as his joys and pains. A gifted writer, Creighton takes th... + Read More
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Series: Women's Writing in EnglishWomen's Writing in CanadaPaperback
Patricia Demers9780802095015
$42.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Aug 07, 2019
Spanning the period from the Massey Commission to the present and reflecting on the media of print, film, and song, this study attends to the burgeoning energy of women writers across genres. It explores how their work interprets our national story. The questioning, disruptive feminist practice of their fiction, filmmaking, poetry, song-writing, drama, and non-fiction reveals the tensions of colonial society at the same time as it transforms cultural life in Canada. Women’s Writing in Canada resurrects foremothers who were active before and aft... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Book and Print CultureCulinary LandmarksA Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825-1949Hardcover
Elizabeth Driver9780802047908
$260.00COOKING
Apr 05, 2008
Culinary Landmarks is a definitive history and bibliography of Canadian cookbooks from the beginning, when La cuisinière bourgeoise was published in Quebec City in 1825, to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of more than ten years Elizabeth Driver researched every cookbook published within the borders of present-day Canada, whether a locally authored text or a Canadian edition of a foreign work. Every type of recipe collection is included, from trade publishers' bestsellers and advertising cookbooks, to home economics textbooks and fund... + Read More
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Series: Canoe and CanvasLife at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 1880−1910Hardcover
Jessica Dunkin9781487504762
$74.00HISTORY
Sep 10, 2019
Unpacking the various forms of privilege that governed the American Canoe Association.Closely examining the annual American Canoe Association meetings between 1880 and 1910, Canoe and Canvas offers a detailed account of the organization. By recounting the activities of this two week-long meeting, from the choice of location to the dismantling of the tents, we can discover much about the culture of leisure and sport unique to late Victorian society. Concerned with how gender, class, and race shaped the social, cultural, and physical landscapes o... + Read More
Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Conceptualizing obesity as a biological condition, these experts insist that it needs to be “prevented” and “managed.” Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical perspective of our supposed epidemic. Examining obesity in its cultural and historical context, the book’s contributors ask how we measure health and wellness, where our attitudes to obesity develop from, and what the consequences are of naming and targeting ... + Read More
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Series: Being FatWomen, Weight, and Feminist Activism in CanadaPaperback
Jenny Ellison9781487523473
$34.95HISTORY
Mar 26, 2020
Inspired by second wave feminism, fat activism challenged stigmas and stereotypes about fat women.It is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has existed in Canada since the early 1970s. This book focuses on the earliest strands of the Canadian movement, which emerged around 1977 and ended around 1997 with the emergence of defiant performance artists Pretty, Porky, and Pissed Off. This twenty-year window loosely correlates with the rise of "second-wave" feminist organizing and thinking in the country.... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Gender and HistorySisters or Strangers?Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition2nd editionPaperback
Marlene Epp9781442629134
$61.00SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 05, 2016
Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the creation of white settler societies, letters and oral histories, domestic labour, the body, political activism, food studies, gender and ethnic identity, and trauma, violence, and memory.The second edition of this influential essay collection expand... + Read More
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Series: This Pilgrim NationThe Making of the Portuguese Diaspora in Postwar North AmericaPaperback
Gilberto Fernandes9781442630666
$45.95HISTORY
Jan 17, 2020
This book tells the transnational history of Portuguese communities in Canada and the United States against the backdrop of the Cold War, the American Civil Rights movement, the Portuguese Colonial War, and Canadian multiculturalism. It considers the ethnic, racial, class, gender, linguistic, regional, and generational permutations of "Portuguese" diaspora from both a transnational and comparative perspective. Besides showing that diasporas and nations can be co-dependent, This Pilgrim Nation counters the common notion that hybrid diasporic ide... + Read More
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Series: Productivity and ProsperityA Historical Sociology of Productivist ThoughtPaperback
Karen R. Foster9781487520571
$43.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 20, 2016
Despite Canada’s economic success over the past thirty years, the country’s ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other industrialized nations. Economic experts and pundits repeatedly call for means of improving productivity, arguing that it is the lynchpin to prosperity. However, there is growing evidence to the contrary. In Productivity and Prosperity, Karen Foster zeroes in on the paradox of productivity: that it is the key to economic prosperity and yet its connection to well-being and median incomes has all but ... + Read More
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Series: Searching for W.P.M. KennedyThe Biography of an EnigmaPaperback
Martin L. Friedland9781487525255
$55.00HISTORY
Apr 06, 2020
Born in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the twentieth century. Despite his trailblazing career and intriguing personal life, Kennedy’s story is largely a mystery. Weaving together a number of key events, Martin L. Friedland’s lively biography discusses Kennedy’s contributions as a legal and interdisciplinary scholar, his work at the University of Toronto where he founded the Faculty of Law, as well as his personal life, detailing stories about ... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionThe Canadian PrairiesA HistoryPaperback
Gerald Friesen9781487516659
$54.00HISTORY
May 24, 2017
Native leaders, immigrant farm families, Alberta oil barons, and political reformers all have prominent roles in this live and comprehensive history of the prairie west. Drawing upon recent research- hundreds of books, articles, and government reports- in native, labour, and urban history, as well as his own work in social and intellectual movements, Gerald Friesen has created a new, authoritative interpretation of the prairie experience.
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Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal HistoryA History of Law in Canada, Volume OneBeginnings to 1866Paperback
Philip Girard9781487547462
$68.00LAW
May 17, 2019
A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada – the Indigenous,... + Read More
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Series: Political Development: Comparative PerspectivesLost on DivisionParty Unity in the Canadian ParliamentPaperback
Jean-François Godbout9781487524753
$45.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 09, 2020
Compared to other countries, Canada’s Parliament shows a high level of party unity when it comes to legislative voting. This was not always the case, however. One hundred years ago, this sort of party discipline was not as evident, leading scholars to wonder what explains the growing influence of political parties in the Canadian Parliament. In Lost on Division, Jean-François Godbout analyses more than two million individual votes recorded in the House of Commons and the Senate since Confederation, demonstrating that the increase in partisanshi... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionCanada's ArmyWaging War and Keeping the Peace2nd editionPaperback
J.L. Granatstein9781487516666
$56.00HISTORY
Jun 01, 2017
The first edition of Canada's Army quickly became the definitive history of the Canadian army. The intervening years, though, have seen major changes to how Canadians think about their military, especially in the context of the Afghan War and increased federal funding for the Canadian Forces. In the second edition of Canada's Army, J.L. Granatstein—one of the country's leading historians—updated his work with fresh material on the evolving role of the military in Canadian society, along with updated sources and illustrations. The 2011 edition h... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionThe People of New FrancePaperback
Allan Greer9781487516673
$25.95HISTORY
May 24, 2017
This book surveys the social history of New France. For more than a century, until the British conquest of 1759-60, France held sway over a major portion of the North American continent. In this vast territory several unique colonial societies emerged, societies which in many respects mirrored ancien regime France, but which also incorporated a major Aboriginal component.Whereas earlier works in this field presented pre-conquest Canada as completely white and Catholic, The People of New France looks closely at other members of society as well... + Read More
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Series: Words Have a PastThe English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding SchoolsPaperback
Jane Griffith9781487521554
$30.95HISTORY
Apr 08, 2019
Jane Griffith establishes printing at Indian boarding schools as a trade that was unlike other industries because of its focus on literacy and dissemination.For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled narratives there also existed sites of resistance. This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century ... + Read More
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Series: Celebrating CanadaHolidays, National Days, and the Crafting of IdentitiesPaperback
Mathew Hayday9781442627130
$49.95HISTORY
Dec 09, 2016
Holidays are a key to helping us understand the transformation of national, regional, community and ethnic identities. In Celebrating Canada, Matthew Hayday and Raymond Blake situate Canada in an international context as they examine the history and evolution of our national and provincial holidays and annual celebrations. The contributors to this volume examine such holidays as Dominion Day, Victoria Day, Quebec’s Fête Nationale and Canadian Thanksgiving, among many others. They also examine how Canadians celebrate the national days of other c... + Read More
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Series: After the FamineThe Irish Family Farm in Eastern Ontario, 1851-1881Paperback
Edward J. Hedican9781487523848
$45.95HISTORY
Mar 26, 2020
The Irish Famine saw hapless Irish citizens starve to death and die of disease, while the population of a neighbouring country, England, lived in relative bounty and apparent disinterest. After the Famine investigates the subsequent emigration of many surviving Irish to Eastern Ontario and tells the story of how, despite hardships, the Irish in Canada managed to survive and prosper after fleeing tragedy. The author explains how the Irish adapted to their new land, and how we might account for their triumph as farmers under somewhat less than fa... + Read More
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Series: Working LivesEssays in Canadian Working-Class HistoryPaperback
Craig Heron9781487522513
$59.00HISTORY
Oct 09, 2018
Craig Heron is one of Canada’s leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron’s new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues, including politics, culture, gender, wage-earning, and union organization. A timely contribution to the evolving field of labour studies in Canada, this cohesive collection of essays analyzes the daily experiences of people working across Canada over more than two hundred years. Honest in its depictions of the historical complexities of dai... + Read More
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Series: One Job TownWork, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern OntarioPaperback
Steven High9781442610231
$49.95HISTORY
May 03, 2018
There’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, located on Canada’s resource periphery. Much like hundreds of other towns and cities across North America and Europe, Sturgeon Falls has lost their primary source of industry, resulting in the displacement of workers and their families. One Job Town takes us into the making of a culture of industrialism and the significance o... + Read More
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Series: IPAC Series in Public Management and GovernanceCanada's Department of External Affairs, Volume 3Innovation and Adaptation, 1968-1984Hardcover
John Hilliker9781487502249
$89.00POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 24, 2017
Volume three of the official history of Canada’s Department of External Affairs offers readers an unparalleled look at the evolving structures underpinning Canadian foreign policy from 1968 to 1984. Using untapped archival sources and extensive interviews with top-level officials and ministers, the volume presents a frank “insider’s view” of work in the Department, its key personalities, and its role in making Canada’s foreign policy. In doing so, the volume presents novel perspectives on Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the country’s response... + Read More
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Series: O.D. SkeltonA Portrait of Canadian AmbitionPaperback
Norman Hillmer9781487521226
$51.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 20, 2016
When O.D. Skelton became Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s foreign policy advisor in 1923, he was already a celebrated critic of the status quo in international and domestic affairs, a loyal Liberal Party man, and a fervent nationalist who believed Canada needed to steer a path independent of Britain. Two years later, he became the permanent head of Canada’s Department of External Affairs. Between then and his tragic death in 1941, Skelton created Canada’s professional diplomatic service, staffing it with sharp young men such as Lester B. Pearson... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Gender and HistoryPerogies and PoliticsCanada's Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991Hardcover
Rhonda L. Hinther9781487500498
$76.00HISTORY
Feb 08, 2018
In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it. For twentieth-century leftist Ukrainians, culture and politics were inextricably linked. The interaction of Ukrainian socio-cultural identity with Marxist-Leninism resulted in one of the most dynamic national working-class movements Canada has ever known. The Ukrainian left’s success lay in its ability to meet the needs of and speak in meaningful, respectf... + Read More
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Series: Power, Politics, and PrinciplesMackenzie King and Labour, 1935-1948Paperback
Taylor Hollander9781487521936
$54.00HISTORY
May 11, 2018
Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long-term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and secondary sources, Hollander gets to the root of the policy-making process, revealing how the making of P.C. 1003 in 1944, a wartime order that forced employers to the collective bargaining table, involved real people with conflicting personalities and competing agendas. Each chapter of Power, Poli... + Read More
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Series: A Century of Maritime ScienceThe St. Andrews Biological StationHardcover
Jennifer M. Hubbard9781442648586
$96.00HISTORY
Apr 20, 2016
Located on the Bay of Fundy, the St. Andrews Biological Station is Canada’s oldest permanent marine research institution. A Century of Maritime Science reviews the fisheries, environmental, oceanographic, and aquaculture research conducted over the last hundred years at St. Andrews from the perspective of the participating scientists. Introductory essays by two leading historians of science situate the work at St. Andrews within their historical context.With topics including the contributions of women to the early study of marine biology in Can... + Read More
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Series: A Weary RoadShell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918Hardcover
Mark Osborne Humphries9781442644717
$54.00HISTORY
Oct 12, 2018
More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the frontline trenches in the Canadian and British forces. How did soldiers relate to suffering comrades? Did large numbers of shell shock cases affect the outcome of important battles? Was frontline psychiatric treatment as effective as many experts claimed after the war? Were Canadians treated any differe... + Read More
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Series: A Weary RoadShell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918Paperback
Mark Osborne Humphries9781487525187
$37.95HISTORY
Sep 06, 2019
More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the frontline trenches in the Canadian and British forces. How did soldiers relate to suffering comrades? Did large numbers of shell shock cases affect the outcome of important battles? Was frontline psychiatric treatment as effective as many experts claimed after the war? Were Canadians treated any differe... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionA Nation of ImmigrantsWomen, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960sPaperback
Franca Iacovetta9781487516680
$51.00HISTORY
May 24, 2017
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 readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as migration strategies and Canadian experiences, their work and family worlds, and their political, cultural, and community lives. They explore the public di... + Read More
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Series: Shoestring SoldiersThe 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915Paperback
Andrew Iarocci9781487523121
$47.95HISTORY
May 04, 2018
The Great War was a pivotal experience for twentieth-century Canada. Shoestring Soldiers is the first scholarly study since 1938 to focus exclusively on Canada's initial overseas experience from late 1914 to the end of 1915.In this exciting new work, Andrew Iarocci challenges the dominant view that the 1st Canadian Division was poorly prepared for war in 1914, and less than effective during battles in 1915. He examines the first generations of men to serve overseas with the division: their training, leadership, morale, and combat operations fro... + Read More
Harold A. Innis helped to found the field of Canadian economic history. He is best known for the "staples thesis" which dominated the discourse of Canadian economic history for decades. This volume collects Innis’ published and unpublished essays on economic history, from 1929 to 1952, thereby charting the development of the arguments and ideas found in his books The Fur Trade in Canada and The Cod Fisheries. These essays capture Innis’ ever evolving views on the practices and uses of economic history as well as Canadian economic history. The n... + Read More
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Series: The Canada 150 CollectionThe Fur Trade in CanadaAn Introduction to Canadian Economic HistoryPaperback
Harold Innis9781487522308
$41.95HISTORY
May 24, 2017
At the time of its publication in 1930, The Fur Trade in Canada challenged and inspired scholars, historians, and economists. Now, almost seventy years later, Harold Innis's fundamental reinterpretation of Canadian history continues to exert a magnetic influence.Innis has long been regarded as one of Canada's foremost historians, and in The Fur Trade in Canada he presents several histories in one: social history through the clash between colonial and aboriginal cultures; economic history in the development of the West as a result of Eastern col... + Read More
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Series: Munk Series on Global Affairs Quebec in a Global Light Reaching for the Common Ground Paperback 9781487523459 $26.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jul 15, 2019