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by E.J. Pratt Library
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This edition of E.J. Pratt’s letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. Because of Pratt’s role in the making of Canadian culture between and after the World Wars, his correspondence highlights key moments in our cultural history and provides a view of the enterprise from its very...
by Barbara Alfano
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works –...
Indians in the Fur Trade
Their Roles as Trappers, Hunters, and Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
First published in 1974, this best-selling book was lauded by Choice as 'an important, ground-breaking study of the Assiniboine and western Cree Indians who inhabited southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan' and 'essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Canadian west before 1870.'
Indians...
Donald Creighton
A Life in History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902–1979) was English Canada’s first great historian. The author of eleven books, including The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence and a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald,...
John Rae Political Economist: An Account of His Life and A Compilation of His Main Writings
Volume II: Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy (reprinted)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
Volume I contains a biographical study of John Rae, a brilliant economist and scholar who lived in Canada for a period in the early part of the nineteenth century, an analysis of Rae's contributions to economics, and a collection of his articles and essays on a variety of topics. These miscellaneous...
John Rae Political Economist: An Account of His Life and A Compilation of His Main Writings
Volume I: Life and Miscellaneous Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
Volume I contains a biographical study of John Rae, a brilliant economist and scholar who lived in Canada for a period in the early part of the nineteenth century, an analysis of Rae's contributions to economics, and a collection of his articles and essays on a variety of topics. These miscellaneous...
Enlightening Encounters
Photography in Italian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Enlightening Encounters traces the impact of photography on Italian literature from the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present day. Investigating the ways in which Italian literature has responded to photographic practice and aesthetics, the contributors use a wide range of theoretical perspectives...
Federico Fellini
Painting in Film, Painting on Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Federico Fellini professed a desire to create “an entire film made of immobile pictures.” In this study, Hava Aldouby uses this quotation as a launching point to analyze Fellini’s films as sequences of “pictures” that draw extensively on art history, and particularly painting, as a reservoir...
Fairy-Tale Science
Monstrous Generation in the Takes of Straparola and Basile
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as 'fairy tales,' these stories had many guises and...
Her Worship
Hazel McCallion and the Development of Mississauga
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
Mississauga is Canada's sixth largest city and its largest suburban municipality. Toronto's upstart western neighbour, with its multicultural population of more than 700,000, is a place not only of endless subdivisions and monotonous industrial parks, wide thoroughfares, and even wider expressways,...
Smart Globalization
The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and the return to more interventionist industrial policies. Both sides claim to have the facts on their...
The Measure of Democracy
Polling, Market Research, and Public Life, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1999
Politicians, government officials, and public relations officers lean heavily on polling when fashioning public policy. Proponents say this is for the best, arguing that surveys bring the views of citizens closer to civic officials. Critics decry polling's promotion of sycophantic politicians who...
Inside the Law
Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
Law firms are important economic institutions in this country: they collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in fees, they order the affairs of businesses and of many government agencies, and their members include some of the most influential Canadians. Some firms have a history stretching...
The Empire of the St. Lawrence
A Study in Commerce and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
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...