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A History of Canadian Legal Thought
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a collection of the principal essays of Professor Emeritus R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority on the history of Canadian legal thought.
Frank...
Counting and Measuring
An Approach to Number Education in the Infant School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
The teaching of numbers in the primary grades is seen in this book as the foundation of the beginnings of mathematical understanding. Mathematics is taken to be a language, and the aim of its teaching is to make the pupil, so to speak, bilingual, or so to increase his understanding that he is able...
The German Right, 1860-1920
Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Before the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, Germany was undergoing convulsive socioeconomic and political change. With unification as a nation state under Bismarck in 1871, Germany experienced the advent of mass politics, based on the principle of one man, one vote. The dynamic, diverse political culture...
Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place
German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
What makes a person call a particular place ‘home’? Does it follow simply from being born there? Is it the result of a language shared with neighbours or attachment to a familiar landscape? Perhaps it is a piece of music, or a painting, or even a travelogue that captures the essence of home. And...
Germany's Second Reich
Portraits and Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Despite recent studies of imperial Germany that emphasize the empire’s modern and reformist qualities, the question remains: to what extent could democracy have flourished in Germany’s stony soil? In Germany’s Second Reich, James Retallack continues his career-long inquiry into the era of Bismarck...
Herder's Political Thought
A Study on Language, Culture and Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Johann Gottfried Herder was a philosopher and important intellectual presence in eighteenth-century Germany. Herder's Political Thought examines the work of this significant figure in the context of both historical and contemporary developments in political philosophy.
Vicki A. Spencer reveals...
Kaleidoscopic Odessa
History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
The recent tumult of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and its aftermath has exposed some of the deep political, social, and cultural divisions that run through the former Soviet republic. Examining Odessa, the Black Sea port that was once the Russian Empire's southern window onto Europe, Kaleidoscopic...
First World Petro-Politics
The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism.
A wide-ranging and richly documented study of Alberta’s political ecology –...
Cities of Oil
Municipalities and Petroleum Manufacturing in Southern Ontario, 1860-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Cities of Oil is the first sustained historical account of the development of the early Canadian petroleum refining and manufacturing industry. In it, Timothy W. Cobban documents the industry’s development in southern Ontario, from its beginnings in the 1850s to its later expansion on the outskirts...
Tracing the Connected Narrative
Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818-1860
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2008
By the 1850s, journalists and readers alike perceived Britain's search for the Northwest Passage as an ongoing story in the literary sense. Because this 'story' appeared, like so many nineteenth-century novels, in a series of installments in periodicals and reviews, it gained an appeal similar to...
by Albert Breton, Anthony Scott
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
A study of "economic imperialism" based on a theoretical inquiry into the most important research frontier in the scholarly field: the analysis of constitutions. The book evaluates constitutional arrangements by the degree to which they economize on the scarcity of resources available in any society, demonstrating a preference for constitutions that make governments efficient.
by Trevor C.W. Farrow
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Privatization is occurring throughout the public justice system, including courts, tribunals, and state-sanctioned private dispute resolution regimes. Driven by a widespread ethos of efficiency-based civil justice reform, privatization claims to decrease costs, increase speed, and improve access to...
Angéline de Montbrun
A Psychological Romance of Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Laure Conan was the first woman novelist in French Canada and the first writer in all Canada to attempt a roman d'analyse. As she refused to have her true identity revealed, the author of the preface to her book, Abbé H.-R. Casgrain, made a point of confirming that it was indeed a woman hiding behind...
Without Our Past?
A Handbook for the Preservation of Canada's Architectural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
In their growing awareness of the need to keep alive Canada's heritage, individuals, community groups, and small historical societies have long felt the need for a basic guide to the preservation of buildings, particularly buildings which, though they may not warrant provincial or federal protection,...