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Beyond the Welfare State
Postwar Social Settlement and Public Pension Policy in Canada and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Neoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia?
In...
The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement
The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
When journalists, academics, and politicians describe the North American anti-abortion movement, they often describe a campaign that is male-dominated, aggressive, and even violent in its tactics, religious in motivation, anti-women in tone, and fetal-centric in arguments and rhetoric. Are they correct?
In...
Bad Attitude(s) on Trial
Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Bad Attitude(s) on Trial is a critical analysis of pornography in the context of contemporary Canada. The notion that pornography both reflects sexual domination and 'victimizes' women has recently found expression in law in the landmark Canadian Supreme Court decision of R. v. Butler (1992). Many...
Liberalism and Hegemony
Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
In 2000, Ian McKay, a highly respected historian at Queen's University, published an article in the Canadian Historical Review entitled "The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History." Written to address a crisis in Canadian history, this detailed, programmatic,...
Surviving Trench Warfare
Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The horrors of the First World War were the product of a new and unprecedented type of industrial warfare. To survive and win demanded not just new technology but the techniques to use it effectively. In Surviving Trench Warfare, Bill Rawling takes a close look at how technology and tactics came together...
Canada and the Age of Conflict
Volume 1: 1867-1921
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Few historians are as qualified as C.P. Stacey to address the questions underlying Canada and the Age of Conflict. This volume begins his authoritative and magisterial general history of Canada's relations with the outside world.
The basic theme of the work is that foreign policy, like charity,...
The Sash Canada Wore
A Historical Geography of the Orange Order in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Here is the story of the rise, spread, and fall of the Orange Order in Canada. Beginning in 1800, the Order grew steadily in many parts of the country during the nineteenth century, reaching its peak in the early part of the twentieth century. Since then, with the changes in Canadian society, the...
Debating Dissent
Canada and the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade’s political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes associated with the 1960s by examining what...
The Fate of Labour Socialism
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Dream of a Working-Class Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Almost a century before the New Democratic Party rode the first “orange wave,” their predecessors imagined a movement that could rally Canadians against economic insecurity, win access to necessary services such as health care, and confront the threat of war. The party they built during the...
The Right Relationship
Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties
Language: English
Release Date: March 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...
by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Large-scale development is once again putting Toronto's waterfront at the leading edge of change. As in other cities around the world, policymakers, planners, and developers are envisioning the waterfront as a space of promise and a prime location for massive investments. Currently, the waterfront...
The Force of Culture
Vincent Massey and Canadian Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
A misunderstood and sometimes maligned figure, Vincent Massey was one of Canada's most influential cultural policy-makers and art patrons. Best known as Canada's first native-born Governor General, he chaired the landmark Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
The Iroquois Book of Rites, the most noteworthy of Hale's studies of the Iroquois, was translated and edited by him from two Indian manuscripts found at Grand River, with the help of informants and interpreters. The various parts of the Book of Rites throw valuable light on the political and social...
Is God a Racist?
The Right Wing in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
‘God is a racist’—so goes a statement published in the literature of the Western Guard, a white-supremacist, anti-semitic group in Toronto. It is one of a number of racist organizations that have sprung up in Canada since the Second World War. Stanley Barrett points out in this disquieting study...