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Dimensions of Development
History, Community, and Change in Allpachico, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Dimensions of Development traces the 'development' of Allpachico, a village in the Peruvian central highlands. Susan Vincent examines four aid projects in the area, each following distinct international trends, that took place between 1984 and 2008 within the context of wider state and global political...
by Grace Skogstad
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics offers a variety of perspectives on the development of policy paradigms — the ideas that structure thinking about what can and should be done in a policy domain. In this collection, international experts examine how both transnational actors...
by Alain G. Gagnon, Raffaele Iacovino
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2006
Canadians often imagine their country as a multicultural democracy, while a few go further to claim that the country's diversity can be characterized as multinational in its social and institutional make-up. In Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebec, Alain-G. Gagnon and Raffaele Iacovino reveal how this...
The Politics of Federalism
Ontario's Relations with the Federal Government. 1867-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
The British North America Act of 1867 fashioned a Canadian federation which was intended to be a highly centralized union led by a powerful national government. Soon after Confederation, however, the government of Ontario took the lead in demanding a greater share of the power for the provinces, and...
Children's Rights
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Participation and Protection
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into international law in 1989. Since its adoption, it has been ratified by nearly all member nations. An outline of the basic rights of all persons under the age of 18, the Convention has various implications and its importance...
Old English Metre
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the interaction...
Immigration Dialectic
Imagining Community, Economy, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Immigration is an integral part of national identity in settler societies such as Canada. But in countries where identity is defined more in ethnic terms, such as Germany, the presence of immigrants has only recently begun to be acknowledged. Taking these two countries as case studies, Immigration...
North America in Question
Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States,...
Journalism in Crisis
Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Journalism in Crisis addresses the concerns of scholars, activists, and journalists committed to Canadian journalism as a democratic institution and as a set of democratic practices. The authors look within Canada and abroad for solutions for balancing the Canadian media ecology.
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Timothy Warren Anglin, 1822-96
Irish Catholic Canadian
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
Born in Ireland in 1822, Timothy Warren emigrated to New Brunswick in 1849 and quickly became involved in the life and politics of the city of Saint John and the colony. As founder and editor of the newspaper the Freeman, he came lay spokesman for the large, mainly lower-class Irish Catholic population...
Flaming Souls
Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Social Change in Barbados
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
While there has been increased attention to issues of sexuality in the Caribbean over the past decade, there continue to be very few in-depth ethnographic studies of sexual minorities in this region. A timely addition to the literature, Flaming Souls explores public discourses focusing on homosexuality...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Cultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized. Indigenous communities in particular are responding to these opportunities in innovative ways that set them...
Toronto Sprawls
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2007
With a landmass of approximately 7000 square kilometres and a population of roughly five million, the Greater Toronto Area is Canada's largest metropolitan centre. How did a small nineteenth-century colonial capital become this sprawling urban giant, and how did government policies shape the contours...
Shape of the Suburbs
Understanding Toronto's Sprawl
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2009
It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between...