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Borderline Canadianness
Border Crossings and Everyday Nationalism in Niagara
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Canada and the United States share the world’s longest international border. For those living in the immediate vicinity of the Canadian side of the border, the events of 9/11 were a turning point in their relationship with their communities, their American neighbours and government officials.
Borderline...
by H. F. Angus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1953
This book brings together and interprets the information relating to Canada's contacts with Asiatic countries since the beginning of the Second World War. Lucidly written and freshly presented, it will be of great interest to everyone concerned with international affairs.
As Canada's policies...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Mr. Guillet is a familiar figure in the field of Canadian local and social history: his work has been acclaimed for its thorough and accurate research, its skilful use of source material, its wealth of authenticated anecdote, and its attention to detail. Written in an attractive and comfortable style,...
Reaction and Reform
The Politics of the Conservative Party under R.B. Bennett, 1927-1938
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
When R.B. Bennett assumed the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada in 1926, he inherited a party out of step with a modernizing Canada. Three years later, in the early days of the Depression, he led the Tories to power with a mandate to bring back prosperity. Larry A. Glassford explores...
American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle
Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form – the little magazine – and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century. Though the little magazine has long been regarded as...
Homelands and Empires
Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690–1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The period from 1690 to 1763 was a time of intense territorial competition during which Indigenous peoples remained a dominant force. British Nova Scotia and French Acadia were imaginary places that administrators hoped to graft over the ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq, Wulstukwiuk, Passamaquoddy,...
Essays in Political Economy
In Honour of E.J. Urwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
This volume of essays in Political Science is a tribute to the character and work of Professor Edward Johns Urwick who in June, 1937, retired under the age limit from the chair of Political Economy in the University of Toronto. It is the first volume of a series in Political Economy to be published...
The Capacity To Judge
Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship between knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Literature and historical writing among the Czechs, as among many other nations lacking a political state, played a vital role in promoting national consciousness. This volume, written to honour the seventieth birthday of the eminent Czech historian Otakar Odložík, contains essays by outstanding...
by Florence Hester Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
After Florence Hester Edgar passed away in 1944, there was found among her effects a quantity of compositions in prose and verse almost ready for publication. From this literary bequest has been selected the poetry that follows. Some poems were published in the daily press of Ottawa, and others in...
The Empire of Mind
Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Where many critics see the Internet as an instrument of corporate hegemony, Michael Strangelove sees something else: an alternative space inhabited by communities dedicated to anarchic freedom, culture jamming, alternative journalism, and resistance to authoritarian forms of consumer capitalism and...
The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus
An introduction with Erasmus' Preface and Ancillary Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Erasmus produced his five editions of the New Testament in Greek and Latin and his Paraphrases on the Gospels and Epistles almost contemporaneously with the tumultuous events that accompanied the beginnings of the Reformation in Europe. At the same time, his scholarship was a signal illustration of...
by A.B. McKillop
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
The leaps of knowledge in nineteenth-century science shook the foundations of religious and humanistic values throughout much of the world. The Darwinian Revolution and similar developments presented enormous philosophical challenges to Canadian scientists, philosophers, and men of letters. Their...
by J.M. Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Starting from Newman`s concept of the university as a place of liberal education, Professor Cameron examines how today`s university functions, what its aims should be and what its strengths and deficiencies are, and presents some proposals for reform. He argues that liberal education, in which knowledge...