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Mock Modernism
An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910-1935
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
How was the modernist movement understood by the general public when it was first emerging? This question can be addressed by looking at how modernist literature and art were interpreted by journalists in daily newspapers, mainstream magazines like Punch and Vanity Fair, and literary magazines. In...
by Carolyn Springer
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained...
Reconsidering C.B. MacPherson
From Possessive Individualism to Democratic Theory and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
C.B. Macpherson occupies an ambiguous place in contemporary political thought. Though his work is well known, it remains on the margins of current democratic theory. That marginalization, Phillip Hansen argues, comes from our failure to appreciate the underlying philosophical dimension of Macpherson’s...
Burlesque West
Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2009
After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West,the first critical history of this notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from...
Canuck Rock
A History of Canadian Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2009
The Guess Who. Gordon Lightfoot. Joni Mitchell. Neil Young. Stompin' Tom Connors. Robert Charlebois. Anne Murray. Crowbar. Chilliwack. Carole Pope. Loverboy. Bryan Adams. The Barenaked Ladies. The Tragically Hip. Céline Dion. Arcade Fire. K-oS. Feist. These musicians are national heroes to generations...
Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s
At the Heart of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a lively, personal, and accessible history of the most influential filmmakers and movements of both Anglo-Canadian...
by John Preston Buschlen, Douglas Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Of this novel of Canadian business life and village and city social conditions in the early twentieth century, the author explains that his object is 'to enlighten the public concerning life behind the wicket and thus pave the way for the legitimate organization of bankclerks into a fraternal association, for their financial and social (including moral) betterment.'
Politics of Public Money
Spenders, Guardians, Priority Setters, and Financial Watchdogs inside the Canadian Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2007
Public money is one of the primary currencies of influence for politicians and public servants. It affects the standards by which they undertake the nation's business and it impacts on the standard of living of the nation's citizens. The Politics of Public Money examines the extent to which the Canadian...
by David A. Good
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Public money is one of the primary currencies of influence for politicians and public servants. It affects the standards by which they undertake the nation’s business and impacts the standard of living of the nation’s citizens. David A. Good’s The Politics of Public Money examines the extent...
The Promised Land
History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the...
Craft Capitalism
Craftsworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
Many studies have concluded that the effects of early industrialization on traditional craftsworkers were largely negative. Robert B. Kristofferson demonstrates, however, that in at least one area this was not the case. Craft Capitalism focuses on Hamilton, Ontario, and demonstrates how the preservation...
Beyond the Nation?
Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries — from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of migration...
Coast to Coast
Hockey in Canada to the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2009
As an institution that helps bind Canadians to an imagined community, hockey has long been associated with an essential Canadian identity. However, this reductionism ignores the ways Canadians consume hockey differently based on their socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, and location. Moreover,...
Canada's Entrepreneurs
From The Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature, but few of us know much about the people behind them - the individuals who have energized this country's economic life for over four centuries, and whose...