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by Sarah Carter
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 1999
The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what...
The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928
The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged with trapping muskrats out of season. At appeal in July 1928, Sylliboy and five other men recalled conversations with parents, grandparents, and community members to explain how they understood a treaty their...
Spirits of the Rockies
Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The Banff–Bow Valley in western Alberta is the heart of spiritual and economic life for the Nakoda peoples. While they were displaced from the region by the reserve system and the creation of Canada’s first national park, in the twentieth century the Nakoda reasserted their presence in the valley...
Moving Beyond Borders
A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era nurses who were born in Canada or who immigrated from the Caribbean either through Britain or directly to Canada. Karen Flynn examines the shaping...
by Allan Greer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
This book surveys the social history of New France. For more than a century, until the British conquest of 1759-60, France held sway over a major portion of the North American continent. In this vast territory several unique colonial societies emerged, societies which in many respects mirrored ancien...
Our Man in Moscow
A Diplomat's Reflections on the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
"The world is large; Russia is great; death is inevitable."
Almost forty years ago Robert A.D. Ford came across this sentence in a Russian school primer. It stays with him today as an example of the Russian psyche, a psyche that Ford is better equipped to explain than most. He is...
Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians
History, Politics, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Ukrainian immigrants to Canada have often been portrayed in history as sturdy pioneer farmers cultivating the virgin land of the Canadian west. The essays in this collection challenge this stereotype by examining the varied experiences of Ukrainian-Canadians in their day-to-day roles as writers, intellectuals,...
Halfway up Parnassus
A Personal Account of the University of Toronto, 1932-1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government,...
by Paolo Mantegazza, Nicoletta Pireddu
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2008
Physician, anthropologist, travel writer, novelist, politician, Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) was probably the most eclectic figure in late-nineteenth century Italian culture. A prolific writer, Mantegazza can be seen as a forerunner of what has come to be known as cultural studies on account of his...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Tune in to HGTV, visit your local bookstore's magazine section, or flip to the 'Homes' section of your weekend newspaper, and it becomes clear: domestic spaces play an immense role in our cultural consciousness. The Domestic Space Reader addresses our collective fascination with houses and homes by...
Italian Neorealist Cinema
An Aesthetic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these films as assemblies of sounds and images rather...
Inspiring Fellini
Literary Collaborations Behind the Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Federico Fellini is considered one of the greatest cinematic geniuses of our time, but his films were not produced in isolation. Instead, they are the results of collaborations with some of the greatest scriptwriters of twentieth-century Italy. Inspiring Fellini re-examines the filmmaker’s oeuvre,...
Modernism in Kyiv
Jubilant Experimentation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010
The study of modernism has been largely focused on Western cultural centres such as Paris, Vienna, London, and New York. Extravagantly illustrated with over 300 photos and reproductions, Modernism in Kyiv demonstrates that the Ukrainian capital was a major centre of performing and visual arts as well...
by Martyn Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant ways. Book production and consumption increased dramatically, and practices such as letter- and diary-writing were widespread. This study...