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In the Power of the Government
The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894-1932
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
For forty years, historians have argued that early twentieth-century provincial governments in Canada were easily manipulated by the industrialists who developed Canada’s natural resources, such as pulpwood, water power, and minerals. With In the Power of the Government, Mark Kuhlberg uses the case...
Femocratic Administration
Gender, Governance, and Democracy in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Femocratic Administration examines the gendered nature of public administration through a study of the Ontario Women’s Directorate (OWD) between 1985 and 2000. Analysing the OWD from the perspective of feminist political economy, this book combines a detailed case study with a theoretical framework...
Town and Country Planning in England and Wales
(Third Edition, Revised)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
The British Town and Country Planning machine is the most sophisticated in the world, yet its inadequacies are only too apparent to those who are familiar with its evolution and operation. During the last decade it has been in a constant state of change in an attempt to come to terms with the needs...
Playing for Change
The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
For more than forty years, scholars of the history and sociology of sport and recreation have studied how, no matter the time or place, sport is always more than just a game. In Playing for Change, leading scholars in the field of sports studies consider that legacy and forge ahead into the discipline’s...
by Hok-Lin Leung
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Land Use Planning Made Plain is a practical guide for planners, administrators, politicians, developers, property owners, and the general public on how to make and implement land use decisions. It seeks to develop a set of coherent planning principles by drawing out useful and generally applicable...
Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists
The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This newly created economy...
Inventing Atlantic Canada
Regionalism and the Maritime Reaction to Newfoundland's Entry into Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
When Newfoundland entered the Canadian Confederation in 1949, it was hoped it would promote greater unity between the Maritime provinces, as Term 29 of the Newfoundland Act explicitly linked the region's economic and political fortunes. On the surface, the union seemed like an unprecedented opportunity...
A Nation in Conflict
Canada and the Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The First and Second World Wars were two of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. In Canada, they claimed 110,000 lives and altered both the country’s domestic life and its international position. A Nation in Conflict is a concise, comparative overview of the Canadian national experience...
Across the Aisle
Opposition in Canadian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
How do parties with official opposition status influence Canadian politics? Across the Aisle is an innovative examination of the theory and practice of opposition in Canada, both in Parliament and in provincial legislatures. Extending from the pre-Confederation era to the present day, it focuses on...
Canadian State Trials, Volume IV
Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The fourth volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats and the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the Great Depression. War prompted the development of new government powers and raised questions about citizenship...
Power, Politics, and Principles
Mackenzie King and Labour, 1935-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long-term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and secondary sources, Hollander gets to the root of...
Mike
The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume Three: 1957-1968
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. This third and final volume of his memoirs follows him from his years of triumph as a Canadian diplomat to his retirement from politics...
Along a River
The First French-Canadian Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides,...
Canada and the Age of Conflict
Volume 2: 1921-1948, The Mackenzie King Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
Few historians are as qualified as C.P. Stacey to address the questions underlying Canada and the Age of Conflict. This volume completes 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,...