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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
This volume, containing ten essays, is the first of two designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history and reflecting the current interests of those working in that area. Topics covered include historical aspects of company law, the law and the economy,...
Mussolini's Decennale
Aura and Mythmaking in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The year 1932, the tenth anniversary of Mussolini’s March on Rome, was fascism’s Decennale. Commemorating Italian fascism’s seizure of power, the Decennale was celebrated by the regime in a deliberate attempt to radicalize the original movement and develop it into an imperial and racist regime.
In...
The Thousandth Man
A Biography of James McGregor Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative Party fundraiser, bibliographer of Rudyard Kipling, and sometime university teacher of classics. A leader of the bar in the inter-war...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This third volume of Essays in the History of Canadian Law presents thoroughly researched, original essays in Nova Scotian legal history. An introduction by the editors is followed by ten essays grouped into four main areas of study. The first is the legal system as a whole: essays in this section...
Jewish People, Yiddish Nation
Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified...
Joe Salsberg
A Life of Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
This book follows the life and intellectual journey of Joseph Baruch Salsberg, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who became a major figure of the Ontario Left, a leading voice for human rights in the Ontario legislature, and an important journalist in the Jewish community. His life trajectory mirrored many...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2009
Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols...
by Michele George
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Replete now with its own scholarly traditions and controversies, Roman slavery as a field of study is no longer limited to the economic sphere, but is recognized as a fundamental social institution with multiple implications for Roman society and culture. The essays in this collection explore how...
Applied Anthropology in Canada
Understanding Aboriginal Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2008
Anthropologists are often reluctant to present their work relating to matters of a broad social context to the wider public even though many have much to say about a range of contemporary issues. In this second edition of a classic work in the field, Edward J. Hedican takes stock of Anthroplogy's...
The Power of Place, the Problem of Time
Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
The Indigenous communities of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia (a group commonly called the Stó:lõ), have historical memories and senses of identity deriving from events, cultural practices, and kinship bonds that had been continuously adapting long before a non-Native visited the area directly....
by Neil S Forkey
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and...
by John Borrows
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Indigenous traditions can be uplifting, positive, and liberating forces when they are connected to living systems of thought and practice. Problems arise when they are treated as timeless models of unchanging truth that require unwavering deference and unquestioning obedience. Freedom and Indigenous...
Inheriting a Canoe Paddle
The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddle looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification’s unintended consequences for First Nations. Written with...
The Lubicon Lake Nation
Indigenous Knowledge and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2008
Many argue that the Lubicon, a small Cree nation in northern Alberta, have been denied their unalienable right to self-determination by the Canadian government. In a country such as Canada, some see the plight of the Lubicon people as an enduring reminder that certain democratic principles and basic...