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From talking chiefs to a native corporate elite

From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite traces the development of class relations and collective identity among Canadian Inuit over several centuries of contact with Western capitalism. Marybelle Mitchell provides a complete history of Inuit-white relations, starting with the first contac...

Zambian crisis behaviour

Rhodesia's racially inspired rebellion and subsequent unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in November 1965 had profound implications for neighbouring Zambia's national security and economic survival. Focusing on landlocked Zambia's response to the economic and military threat pose...

Women, work, and the french state

In France, during the 1880s and 1890s, the protection of women and girls in the workplace was advocated by sociologists, social economists, union leaders, enlightened industrialists, and politicians of virtually every ideological hue. In response, laws were enacted restricting not only the number...

The rousing of the scottish working class

Canada's greatest wartime muddle

In this exhaustively researched and carefully documented account, Michael Stevenson argues that National Selective Service (NSS) - the agency responsible for controlling the nation's military and civilian mobilization apparatus - failed in its attempts to regulate Canadian society. He challenges ...

The chignecto covenanters

Tracing the Chignecto movement from its roots in Irish Reformed Presbyterianism to its assimilation into the Presbyterian Church of Canada in 1905, Eldon Hay chronicles the history of a unique religious community in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Frontenac, the courtier governor

An evangelical mind

Through an in-depth study of the thought and intellectual formation of Nathanael Burwash (1839-1918), a little-known but highly influential Canadian educator and Methodist theologian, Marguerite Van Die presents a picture of one of the most unsettling per

Canada's balance of international indebtedness, 1900-1913

This volume is a pioneering study of a free school in an eastern Canadian city. The author describes the attempts of a small group of people to set up a school, bound in some ways to the conventional system, yet reaching beyond it with different ideals. One great value of the study is its careful...

The politics of codification

In this study of a pivotal event in the evolution of Quebec's legal culture, Brian Young shows that codification of the Civil law was an intensely political act as well as a legal phenomenon.

Changing women, changing history, second edition

Changing Women, Changing History is a bibliographic guide to the scholarship, both English and French, on Canadian's women's history. Organized under broad subject headings, and accompanied by author and subject indices it is accessible and comprehensive.

Methodists and women's education in ontario, 1836-1925

Situating the evolution of Methodist education for women in Ontario within the larger social and cultural context, Methodists and Women's Education in Ontario describes the often unintended and unforeseen forces unleashed by women's education and the ambi

Renegade in power

St petersburg

With scarcely a ripple

Much of the development of regions and communities on both sides of the United States-Canada border resulted from migration. With Scarcely a Ripple, the first study to link persistence, immigration, internal migration, and return migration, looks beyond

White men came to the st. lawrence

Critical years in immigration

With the new introduction, Freda Hawkins brings Critical Years in Immigration up to date by discussing the directions taken by the Canadian and Australian governments since 1984. She also clarifies the implications of the recently announced Canadian immi

Minerva's message

During the French Revolution the French National Institute, including the Class of Moral and Political Sciences (CMPS), was established to replace the abolished Ancien Régime academies. In Minerva's Message Martin Staum explores how what began as the institutionalization of Enlightenment social s...

The making of an explorer

The Making of an Explorer reveals how George Hubert Wilkins' experiences with the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 helped a little-known Australian photographer develop into the world-famous polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. Making extensive use of Wilkins' Arctic diary and other sources, b...

Oil in the people's republic of china

Recollections of the on to ottawa trek

The author experienced the Depression with the deprivations of unemployment and life in the work camps. He helped organize the B.C. Relief Camp strike, and later participated in the On to Ottawa Trek, which ended in a confrontation with the federal police in Regina.

Power at cost

Almost from the moment of its creation in 1906, Ontario Hydro has been criticized for pursuing its own interests at the expense of the public it was established to serve. In Power at Cost, Keith Fleming demonstrates that while Hydro exercised tremendous influence over its political masters in the...

Maritime capital

In Maritime Capital, the long-awaited final volume of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, Eric Sager and Gerald Panting argue that the decline of the shipping industry was not, as has commonly been assumed, the inevitable result of the conversion from wood and sail to iron and steam.

Keeping heads above water

Costa Rica has a long-established humanitarian tradition as a country of asylum for refugees fleeing repressive regimes in other South American countries. Salvadorean refugees began arriving in Costa Rica in 1980, and many of them received assistance directed at making them self-sufficient. In Ke...

Voices in exhile

The reciprocity treaty of 1854

Johan schrøder's travels in canada, 1863

Johan Schroder's Travels in Canada, 1863 is the narrative of two months of travel during the summer of 1863 that took Johan Schro/der, a Norwegian gentleman and farmer, through Upper and Lower Canada. Schroder's travels, undertaken with a view to publishi

The frog lake "massacre"

The true spirit and original intent of treaty 7

There are several historical accounts of the Treaty 7 agreement between the government and prairie First Nations but none from the perspective of the aboriginal people involved. In spite of their perceived silence, however, the elders of each nation involved have maintained an oral history of eve...

The tremblay report

The Report of the Tremblay Commission was an in-depth examination of the philosophical and moral basis of French-Canadian society. As such, it is essential to any deep understanding of French Canada.

Family life and sociability in upper and lower canada, 1780-1870

Drawing on diaries and letters exchanged between family members Françoise Noël considers the nature of family, the couple during courtship and after marriage, parents and children in childhood and after the children leave home, and the social life of the family in terms of both leisure time and e...

The gate of heaven

The Gate of Heaven is the story of the evolution of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, from the beginnings of Jewish settlement in Canada to present-day activities. Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat shows how the achievement of political rights for Jews in Canada galvanized immigration, leading the English/Germa...

The imperial challenge

Philip Lawson examines the profound effect that the conquest of Quebec had on British politics and imperial thought in the years leading to the signing of the Quebec Act in 1774. He reinterprets the standard accounts of the conquest of Quebec in 1760, challenging prevailing ideas about political ...

Eighteenth century newfoundland

A gentleman in the outports

Political unrest in upper canada, 1815-1836

First published in 1927, this account of the political struggles of Upper Canada prior to the Rebellion of 1837 remains a classic piece of Canadian historical scholarship.

Order and place in a colonial city

Throughout the post-slavery Caribbean, former slaves and masters fought to determine the shape of the new free societies. Urban areas - with their growing populations and vibrant Afro-creole culture - were often the sites of these struggles. In Order and Place in a Colonial City Juanita De Barros...

Seafaring labour

Sager argues that sailors were not misfits or outcasts but were divorced from society only by virtue of their occupation. The wooden ships were small communities at sea, fragments of normal society where workers lived, struggled, and often died. With the coming of the age of steam, the sailor bec...

Historical essays on british columbia

The distinctive character of B.C., which is found not only in its spectacular environment, but also in its community, its politics and its past, is admirably captured in this collection of 16 essays.

For friends at home

Visible histories

While there has been growing interest in assimilating women's experience into the social record of human history, relatively few studies have examined the environments women have built and changed in creating history. Through an examination of the process of environmental change as an important p...

A short history of quebec, third edition

This fully revised edition of A Short History of Quebec includes expanded coverage of Quebec's political history, consideration of recent historiographical interpretations, updated tables and bibliography, a chronology, and new illustrations.

Northern lights against pops

Representatives of 111 nations gathered in Stockholm in May 2001 to sign a legally binding convention to eliminate or reduce emissions of pesticides, insecticides, and other industrial combustion by-products. Long-range transport by air and water carries many of these pollutants to the circumpola...

Precarious employment

Understanding "precarious employment" and its links to labour market institutions, industrial and occupational contexts, gender, 'race,' and (dis)ability.

Man's impact on western canadian landscape

Phillipe de rigaud de vaudreil

French canadian society, vol.i

Canadian indians and the law

A border within

A Border Within addresses the question of English Canadian identity by exploring whether a plurality of discourses can lead to other than a fragmented society. Ian Angus examines the relationship between globalizing social movements and the particularities of identity politics by extending the th...

To preserve & defend

A collection of essays on Kingston during the nineteenth century, following the end of the War of 1812.

Canada among nations, 2004

Much of the recent public debate about Canada's foreign policy has focused on issues of resources and management of Canada-U.S. relations. Groups such as Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and the Public Policy Forum have issued reports calling for an increase in defence spending, a c...

Recent social trends in russia 1960-1995

Recent Social Trends in Russia is a collection of statistical and sociological data on trends in Russian society that have never before been assembled in a comprehensive and systematic manner.

A voyage to newfoundland

Newfoundland, a former British colony, has historically been seen through English imperial eyes. In his entertaining travelogue, French geologist, cartographer, and oceanographer Julien Thoulet portrays the Newfoundland of 1886 from a French Enlightenment and Romantic perspective in which scienti...

A world mission

Between the two world wars, leaders of the mainline Protestant denominations in Canada -- Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, United, and Baptist -- were engaged in a sustained effort to formulate and apply a form of Christian internationalism that would b

Voltaire and sensibility

Perspectives on landscape and settlement in nineteenth-century ontario

Native liberty, crown sovereignty

It is generally assumed in Canada that native liberty and crown sovereignty are antagonistic and mutually exclusive forces. In this penetrating study, Bruce Clark shows that they are in fact complementary. The British government exercised its sovereignty in the eighteenth century in order to prot...

Britain, france, and the financing of the first world war

Fighting the First World War consumed lives, material, and money. Millions died; more suffered. By the war's end, the political map of Europe had been redrawn as empires disappeared and new states arose. In Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War Martin Horn traces the financial...

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C'était du spectacle!

Le quartier chaud de Montréal a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, mais sa culture de cabaret n'a jamais été examinée dans la perspective des artistes transsexuelles et travesties qui l'ont rendu si populaire. Par le biais des récits provenant des danseuses elles-mêmes, Viviane Namaste peint un portra...

Unravelling the franklin mystery

David Woodman's reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin expedition boldly challenges standard interpretations and promises to replace them. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster,

Innovation, science, environment 07/08, 2007-2008

The impact of climate change is becoming increasingly obvious around the world but different levels of the Canadian government are failing to respond cohesively. For example, the Harper government immediately cut several liberal-era environmental research programs and admitted that Canada has bee...

British regulars in montreal

600 years of reform

In the first study of Episcopal reforming activity in France during the period 1190-1789, Michael Hayden and Malcolm Greenshields uncover a wealth of new information on the origins of the Catholic Reformation. 600 Years of Reform argues that the origins of the reform do not date back to the sixte...

A history of canadian external relations, volume 2

The north atlantic treaty organization, 1948-1957

During NATO's formative years, its leadership tried to develop an economic, social, and political role for the organization in an effort to transform it into a community of nations. Using material from Canadian, American, French, and British archives, John Milloy analyses these unsuccessful attem...

A history of canadian external relations, volume 1

First man west

Openings

British Columbia's Sumas Lake was drained in the 1920s to create farmlands in the Fraser Valley. This event is the subject of Laura Cameron's Openings, a multifaceted exploration of the complex relationship between place and history. On one level it is a history of a lake and its "reclamation" as...

Hijacking history

How Bush's war commandeered history and exploited the anxieties of post-industrial America.

The lonely cold war of pope pius xii

The first detailed study of the international role of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church in the shaping of post-1945 Europe and the origins of the Cold War.

Mcmaster meighan history

Insight into the growth of one of Canada's oldest and most respected law firms. It traces the firm from its humble origins as a practice run single-handedly by its founder, William Badgley, to its present status as a corporate law firm with headquarters i

The bank of upper canada

The Bank of Upper Canada played a major role in government financial affairs. Its relations with other banks and its British financial agents reveal the interconnectedness of the 19th century financial world. This book takes a look at a financial institution during the profound transition from a ...

Pathophysiology of peptic ulcer

Demon rum or easy money

Lord durham's mission to canada

The cream of the crop

The Cream of the Crop is the first comprehensive account of the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) selection and training procedures and its policies governing aviators who were considered unsuited for operational duties, especially those judged to have a "lack of moral fibre" (LMF). Allan English...

The canadian oral history reader

An indispensable collection of state-of-the-art work in oral history by Canadian scholars.

Assassination, politics, and miracles

On 13 February 1820 the Duke of Berry, the only Bourbon prince capable of siring an heir, was assassinated. Seven months later the Duchess of Berry gave birth to a boy, the Duke of Bordeaux, and the Bourbon lineage was saved. The boy was immediately nicknamed "the miracle child." The Duke's assas...

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The russian view of honolulu, 1809-1826

Fascinating eye-witness accounts of Honolulu in the early 19th century are collected in this book.

Questions of miracle

This collection of essays explores new avenues in the ongoing debate on miracles and sheds light on various theological and philosophical issues. Presented as a dialogue between Robert Larmer and other leading philosophers in the field, all sides of the issues are provocatively explored.

In the aftermath of catastrophe

In In the Aftermath of Catastrophe Jacob Neusner continues his project of making clear the importance of the first six centuries of the Common Era in the history of Judaism. It is during this period, which began with the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 70 and concluded with forma...

Canada’s residential schools: the history, part 2, 1939 to 2000

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...

Beware the british serpent

During World War II, the United States was the target of what Gore Vidal has called "the largest, most intricate and finally most successful conspiracy directed at it in the twentieth century" - Great Britain's "vast conspiracy to manoeuvre an essentially isolationist country into the war." In Be...

Church and state in canada, 1627-1867

Strategic cousins

Australia and Canada may have different security strategies, reflecting contrasting domestic circumstances, but John Blaxland shows that common interests have led their forces to work together for over a century. Strategic Cousins examines the role of the professional armed forces of these geogra...

Canada’s residential schools: the history, part 1, origins to 1939

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...

Republicanism and responsible government

An exploration of the radical ideas and violent struggles that shaped colonial Australia and Canada.

The idea of loyalty in upper canada, 1784-1850

Loyalty evolved as the central political idea in Upper Canada during the first half of the nineteenth century. It formed the basis of political legitimacy and acceptance into provincial society. David Mills examines the evolution and development of the concept of loyalty, placing special emphasis...

Adolescent health

Why youth health policy lacks coherence.

Historical essays on the atlantic provinces

The general

A retrospective that offers an inside look at two centuries of an important North American hospital.

Canada’s residential schools: the inuit and northern experience

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...

A history of the austrian migration to canada

Canadians of Austrian origin have helped define the Canadian cultural mosaic of the 20th century, making important contributions to their adopted home in virtually every field - from cultural and intellectual to scientific and commercial. Yet they seldom appear as a definable group in the Canadia...

The social origins of violence in uganda, 1964-1985

In The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda A.B.K. Kasozi examines the origins of the appallingly high levels of violence in Uganda since independence. This is the first scholarly compilation and comparison of patterns and forms of violence under successive Ugandan regimes, and the first to offer...

Places of last resort

Tens of thousands of Canadian settlers faced the challenge of starting a farm in the near North in the 1910s, twenties, and thirties. In Places of Last Resort David Wood documents this last significant expansion of farm settlement in Canada and the often painful process of discovering that there ...