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Edible Histories, Cultural Politics
Towards a Canadian Food History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Just as the Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. This new book explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food practices in the context of community, region,...
Confessional Cinema
Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain’s Development Years, 1960–1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Pérez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion...
by David E. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The Canadian system of federalism divides the power to govern between the central federal parliament and the provincial and territorial legislative assemblies. In what can be seen as a double federation, power is also divided culturally, between English and French Canada. The divisions of power and...
Ipperwash
The Tragic Failure of Canada's Aboriginal Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
On September 6, 1995, Dudley George was shot by Ontario Provincial Police officer Kenneth Deane. He died shortly after midnight the next day. George had been participating in a protest over land claims in Ipperwash Provincial Park, which had been expropriated from the native Ojibwe after the Second...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
In November 2008, as the economic decline was being fully realized, Canada's newly elected minority government, led by Conservative Stephen Harper, presented a highly divisive fiscal update in advance of a proposed budget. Unable to support the motion, the Liberal and New Democratic Parties, with...
An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada?
Challenges and Choices for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2008
Forty years ago, as the United States became increasingly involved in Vietnam, questions were raised in Canada about the relationship between its foreign policy agenda and that of its southern neighbour. Now, with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is time to raise the same questions: does...
by Dimitry Anastakis, Penny Bryden
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2009
Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the history of Canada's legal, political, and social evolution. Covering themes that include the Supreme Court of Canada, changing policies towards human rights, First...
The Politics of the Charter
The Illusive Promise of Constitutional Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2010
Andrew Petter is a leading constitutional scholar who served from 1991 to 2001 as a British Columbia MLA and cabinet minister, including Attorney General. In The Politics of the Charter, Petter assembles a set of his original essays written over three decades to provide a coherent critique of the...
An Honourable Calling
Political Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
As Premier of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982, Allan Blakeney played a pivotal role in the shaping of modern Canada. In this engaging and candid political memoir, Blakeney reflects on his four decades of public service, offering first-hand insights on the introduction of government-sponsored medicare,...
A Special Hell
Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of “mentally defective” children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer,...
Revolution and Survival
The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia 1917-18
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
This is a highly readable and absorbing account of Bolshevik foreign policy during Lenin's first year in power. In tracing the development of that policy, the book considers both the impact it had on a world torn by war and the effect it had on the Bolsheviks themselves, now no longer engaged in clandestine...
Revolutionary Vanguard
The Early Years of the Communist Youth International 1914-1924
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
The monolithic nature of the communist movement during the Stalinist period overlay pluralist tendencies. These were suppressed in the 1920s, though they were to re-emerge after Stalin's death.
The history of the Communist Youth International is revealed in this volume as an important example...
The Soviet Theory of Development
India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Until now the innumerable and widely distributed Soviet writings on the third world haven been scrutinized for the clues they contain on the Kremlin's aid, trade, and foreign policies, on Soviet strategies for local communist parties, and even on shifts in the Sino-Soviet Relationship. But they have...
The Age of Light, Soap, and Water
Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
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The turn of the last century saw a great wave of moral fervour among Protestant social reformers in English Canada. Their targets for moral reform were various: sex hygiene, immigration policy, slum clearance, prostitution, and “white slavery.”
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