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by Charles Fay
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Here is a description of a lively and unusual tour of industrial Britain in the period which reached its public climax in the Great Exhibition of 1851. Professor Fay sets his tour in the heart of the "stream of industrial invention" in the fields of metals, machinery, transportation, and...
Making Yugoslavs
Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
When Yugoslavia was created in 1918, the new state was a patchwork of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and other ethnic groups. It still was in January 1929, when King Aleksandar suspended the Yugoslav constitution and began an ambitious program to impose a new Yugoslav national identity on his subjects....
Beyond Expectation
Lesbian/Bi/Queer Women and Assisted Conception
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
An in-depth study of lesbian, bi, and queer women's experiences of thinking about and trying to become a parent, Beyond Expectation draws on eighty-two narrative interviews conducted during the late 1990s in British Columbia. Jacquelyne Luce chronicles these women's experiences, which took place from...
The Vertical Mosaic
An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, 50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965. A national best seller that sold more than 100,000 copies, the book was the first major study of Canada’s class structure and one of the foundational...
The Shape of the City
Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, planners have tried to meet these issues. John Sewell traces changes in urban planning, from the pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a...
Working Families
Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2007
Working Families takes the reader onto the streets of Montreal and into the homes of its working-class families during the years that it became a major, industrial city. Between the 1860s and 1890s the expansion of wage labour changed the bases of family survival. It offered new possibilities and...
Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965
A Social History of Religion in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Religious institutions, values, and identities are fundamental to understanding the lived experiences of Canadians in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. Christian Churches and Their Peoples, an inter-denominational study, considers how Christian churches influenced the social and cultural...
Within and Without the Nation
Canadian History as Transnational History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In some ways, Canadian history has always been international, comparative, and wide-ranging. However, in recent years the importance of the ties between Canadian and transnational history have become increasingly clear. Within and Without the Nation brings scholars from a range of disciplines together...
Roots of Entanglement
Essays in the History of Native-Newcomer Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Roots of Entanglement offers an historical exploration of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and European newcomers in the territory that would become Canada. Various engagements between Indigenous peoples and the state are emphasized and questions are raised about the ways in which the...
by Donald A. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
The study of history in Canada has a history of its own, and its development as an academic discipline is a multifaceted one. The Professionalization of History in English Canada charts the transition of the study of history from a leisurely pastime to that of a full-blown academic career for university-trained...
Nuclear Portraits
Communities, the Environment, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In the twenty-first century, nuclear energy has become a hotly contested issue. In the face of climate change, and the search for alternative forms of energy, nuclear power continues to affect the lives of communities around the world.
In Nuclear Portraits, scholars from Europe, North America,...
Making National News
A History of Canadian Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
For almost a century, Canadian newspapers, radio and television stations, and now internet news sites have depended on the Canadian Press news agency for most of their Canadian (and, through its international alliances) foreign news. This book provides the first-ever scholarly history of CP, as well...
Old Man Ontario
Leslie M. Frost
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
For most of the twentieth century, Progressive Conservatives have governed Ontario. One of the great consolidators of the Ontario Tory dynasty was Leslie Frost, premier from 1949 to 1961. This biography explores the life and career of one of the province's most successful politicians.
Frost...
Dominion of Capital
The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In the critical decades following the First World War, the Canadian political landscape was shifting in ways that significantly recast the relationship between big business and government. As public pressures changed the priorities of Canada’s political parties, many of Canada’s most powerful...