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by Dimitry Anastakis, Penny Bryden
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2009
Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the history of Canada's legal, political, and social evolution. Covering themes that include the Supreme Court of Canada, changing policies towards human rights, First...
The Politics of the Charter
The Illusive Promise of Constitutional Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2010
Andrew Petter is a leading constitutional scholar who served from 1991 to 2001 as a British Columbia MLA and cabinet minister, including Attorney General. In The Politics of the Charter, Petter assembles a set of his original essays written over three decades to provide a coherent critique of the...
An Honourable Calling
Political Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
As Premier of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982, Allan Blakeney played a pivotal role in the shaping of modern Canada. In this engaging and candid political memoir, Blakeney reflects on his four decades of public service, offering first-hand insights on the introduction of government-sponsored medicare,...
A Special Hell
Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of “mentally defective” children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer,...
Revolution and Survival
The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia 1917-18
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
This is a highly readable and absorbing account of Bolshevik foreign policy during Lenin's first year in power. In tracing the development of that policy, the book considers both the impact it had on a world torn by war and the effect it had on the Bolsheviks themselves, now no longer engaged in clandestine...
Revolutionary Vanguard
The Early Years of the Communist Youth International 1914-1924
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
The monolithic nature of the communist movement during the Stalinist period overlay pluralist tendencies. These were suppressed in the 1920s, though they were to re-emerge after Stalin's death.
The history of the Communist Youth International is revealed in this volume as an important example...
The Soviet Theory of Development
India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Until now the innumerable and widely distributed Soviet writings on the third world haven been scrutinized for the clues they contain on the Kremlin's aid, trade, and foreign policies, on Soviet strategies for local communist parties, and even on shifts in the Sino-Soviet Relationship. But they have...
The Age of Light, Soap, and Water
Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
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The turn of the last century saw a great wave of moral fervour among Protestant social reformers in English Canada. Their targets for moral reform were various: sex hygiene, immigration policy, slum clearance, prostitution, and “white slavery.”
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by James Farney
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
The strength of the Tea Party and Religious Right in the United States, alongside the Harper Conservatives’ stance on same-sex marriage and religious freedom in Canada, has many asking whether social conservatism has come to define the right wing of North American politics.
In this timely...
Dreams and Due Diligence
Till & McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, the discoverers of insulin. Together, Till and McCulloch instructed, influenced, and inspired successive...
Our Own Master Race
Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many...
Health Care in Canada
A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.
Many...
The Myth of the Born Criminal
Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
By some estimates, there are as many as twelve million psychopaths in the United States alone. Cold-blooded, remorseless, and strangely charismatic, they commit at least half of all serious and violent crimes. Supposedly, most serial killers are psychopaths, as, surprisngly, are large numbers of corporate...
Who is an Indian?
Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts over who gets to live where and for how long, and clashing principles of governance and law. For centuries,...