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Jobs and Justice
Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers—with the complicity of state officials—discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs. Jobs and Justice argues that,...
Wrestling with Democracy
Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries...
Finding the Right Words
Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Isidore of Seville (circa 570-636) was the author of the Etymologiae,. the most celebrated and widely circulated encyclopaedia of the western Middle Ages. In addition, Isidore's Synonyma were very successful and became one of the classics of medieval spirituality. Indeed, it was the Synonyma that...
The Jesuits II
Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Recent years have seen scholars in a wide range of disciplines re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a group of scholars convened a major international conference to discuss the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1773 (the year of its suppression by papal edict). This meeting...
By Great Waters
A Newfoundland and Labrador Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
p>This anthology offers readers a selection of Newfoundland writing which will illuminate the unfolding of the province’s history and culture and at the same time command respect as literature. It is comprised of 65 selections from literary and historical sources, which range in time from an...
Samson’s Cords
Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson’s Cords argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had no choice but to respond.
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by Jean-Charles Falardeau
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
This thought-provoking volume, which represents a re-shaping of the Plaunt Lectures delivered at Carleton University, 1960, offers impressions of the art of living in Canada by one who has been deeply concerned with the relationships between our two cultures. The purpose of the author is to stimulate...
The Mystical Science of the Soul
Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism. Building on recent research...
(Re)Visualizing National History
Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2008
Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which states (especially imperialist states) use museums to showcase looted artefacts, to document their geographic expansion, to present themselves as the guardians...
by Leon Harold Craig
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise, Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have since credited him with a mechanistic outlook towards human nature that established the basis of modern Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. In The Platonian...
The Politics of Eloquence
David Hume's Polite Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
History has shown us that the power of political speech can be put to both positive and manipulative ends - while rhetoric is a powerful tool for those who seek to persuade others to adopt their views, it can also be employed to foment factionalism and undermine the very basis of a democratic society....
Cinderella Army
The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2006
In his controversial and award-winning 2003 book Fields of Fire, Terry Copp offered a stunning reversal of accepted military history, challenging the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure. Cinderella Army continues the story of the operations carried...
by Daniel Goldstick
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Dan Goldstick's Reason, Truth, and Reality addresses two questions: what sort of world do we inhabit? and what moral obligations do we have? To answer the questions Goldstick mounts a bold contemporary defense of pre-Kantian rationalism. Basing consideration upon a characterization of reason in its...
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
"On the night of August 22, 1935, as Canadians listened to their radios, they heard, with amazement and incredulity, that the first Social Credit government in the world had been elected that day in the province of Alberta. . . . Before the tabulation of votes was completed, telephone calls from...