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In their own write
Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves negotiated the New Poor Law and its measures, and how their interactions with the state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. Based on first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters...
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Callings and consequences
This book explores efforts in early modern Catholicism to encourage young men and women to discern the "state of life" to which they were called, whether clerical, religious, or lay. Lane analyzes the origins, growth, and influence of a culture of vocation that became central to the Catholic Refo...
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Irish nationalism in canada
According to conventional historical wisdom, Irish nationalism in Canada was a marginal phenomenon - overshadowed by the more powerful movement in the United States and eclipsed in Canada by the Orange Order.The nine contributors in this book argue otherwise - and in doing so make a major and ori...
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Countercurrents
Countercurrents rewrites the history of post-war feminism in Montreal by incorporating parallel social movements, such as Red Power, Black Power, and Quebec liberation, into the larger narrative of the women’s movement. Case studies compare and reflect on the histories and political work of vario...
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Fearful asymmetry
The history of research into the function of the brain and language in nineteenth-century France.
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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.
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Transatlantic methodists
How Methodism in nineteenth-century central Canada became British.
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The possession of barbe hallay
When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec in 1660, people grew worried about the arrival of evil forces. Barbe Hallay, a teenaged servant, started to act as if possessed, and a miller accused of using dark arts to torment her was executed. Mairi Cowan explores this case of demonic infest...
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The writings of david thompson, volume 1
A vivid account of life in the fur trade and a cornerstone of Canadian literature.
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The empire within
A compelling study of the global dimensions and local particularities of political activism in Sixties Montreal.
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Writing the lives of the english poor, 1750s-1830s
Focusing on the words and experiences of the poor themselves, this book rewrites our understanding of English social policy for the period from the 1750s to 1830s.
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Mediating spaces
In Mediating Spaces James Robertson offers an intellectual history of the diverse supranational politics of Yugoslav socialism, beginning with its birth in the 1870s and concluding with its violent collapse in the 1990s.
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Labeling people
Nineteenth-century French scholars, during a turbulent era of revolution and industrialization, ranked intelligence and character according to facial profile, skin colour, and head shape. They believed that such indicators could determine whether individuals were educable and peoples perfectible....
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The racial mosaic
The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how cultural pluralism in Canada was founded upon, and easily coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism. Looking at how Canadians interpreted diversity before multiculturalism became official policy, it compels readers to consider how racism has structured Cana...
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U-boats against canada
The U-boats constituted a serious threat to North American security and a major challenge to coastal and convoy defence. Hadley reveals the military and political impact on Canada of in-shore submarine warfare and vibrantly documents the successful German strategy of deploying daring long-range s...
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White siberia
In the first full-length account of the Siberian theatre during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, N.G.O. Pereira documents the nature, causes, and consequences of the failure of the anti-Bolshevik White movement. The term "White," used in a broad political sense to contrast with the "Red" Bol...
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Who killed the queen?
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital of Montreal, an exemplary Canadian community hospital that had been the site of many national and international medical firsts, was suddenly closed in the mid-1990s. It was not alone.Using the dramatic and entertaining 100-year history of the Queen Elizabeth as a bas...
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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.
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Standing up to big nickel
In 1958, 14,000 miners and smeltermen in Sudbury, Ontario, downed their tools and struck against the International Nickel Company, a corporate titan of the mining industry. Standing Up to Big Nickel is the first comprehensive portrait of a pivotal strike by the International Union of Mine, Mill, ...
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Dawn of the neuron
How Darwin's theory of evolution drove generations of zoologists to search for the first evolved nervous systems in simple organisms.
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Canadian health care and the state
Canada's state-funded health care system is in trouble, and fundamental questions are being raised about the connection between medicine and the public sector. This collection of historical essays explores diverse aspects of medical care and ideology in their relation to the Canadian state and to...
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Transatlantic subjects
A reinterpretation of the place of colonial Canada within a reconstructed British Empire that focuses on culture and social relations.
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Tsardom of sufficiency, empire of norms
An examination of how land became a measured entitlement in Russia.
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The sir mortimer b. davis jewish general hospital
A compelling look at the remarkable progress of Montreal's Jewish General Hospital, from a community hospital to a first-class medical and research centre.
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Deep waters
Deep Waters is an intimate account of the principal events and personalities involved in the successful development of the Canadian nuclear power system (CANDU), an achievement that is arguably one of Canada's greatest scientific and technical successes of the twentieth century. Kim Krenz tells t...
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The russian military intervention in syria
The Russian Military Intervention in Syria examines Russia’s foreign policy and attempts to protect its interests in the Middle East and former Soviet territory. Providing historical context and revealing the causes of Russia’s use of military power, this book is an authoritative overview of Russ...
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The making of cossack ukraine
The Making of Cossack Ukraine traces the evolution of Ukrainian political thought and culture from the sixteenth century to 1714. The book shows how interplay between various political cultures contributed to the development of territorial, religious, ethnic and national visions that reflected ea...
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A new lease on life
A New Lease on Life is a study of two sets of individuals - landlords and tenants - whose aspirations, opportunities, and destinies spanned the Atlantic. In this richly detailed history of migration and adaptation in the nineteenth century, Catharine Wi
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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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The making of the nations and cultures of the new world
Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand emerged as nations. Through conquest and violent appropriation, European immigrants settled these lands and developed a sense of belonging, powerfully expressed in identity, memory, and the belief in utopias. ...
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Social classes and social credit in alberta
The Social Credit party in Alberta has traditionally been presented as "petty bourgeois" in its ideology and appeals, reflecting what was believed to be the dominant class in the province at the time. Edward Bell challenges these widely held interpretations of the ideology, popular class basis, a...
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North american gaels
A groundbreaking exploration of the literature and folklore of North America's Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking diaspora since the eighteenth century. North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.
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Publishing place
Examining the periodical as a distinct genre of print cultural expression, Publishing Place rethinks the relationship between periodical form, editorial practice, and place on Canada’s east coast during the early twentieth century.
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Land of the midnight sun, third edition
While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such as Herschel Island whaling, pre-1900 fur trading, the post-World War II res...
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The gilded youth of thermidor
The Gilded Youth of Thermidor is a historical account of the Thermidorian Reaction following the fall of Robespierre in July of 1794. François Gendron has made an exhaustive examination of the 36,000 files of the Revolutionary police to reconstruct events on the streets as they parallelled those ...
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A land of dreams
A comparative history of Irish community and identity in St John’s, Halifax, and Portland.
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Strategy and command
Histories of the First World War are often written from a British perspective, ignoring the coalition element of the conflict and the French point of view. In Strategy and Command, Roy Prete offers a major new interpretation supported by in-depth research in French archival sources.
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Ringing in the common love of good
Founded in 1914, the United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) became a significant force in the province, winning the most seats in the 1919 provincial election and forming a governing coalition with the Independent Labour Party. The UFO and its companion organizations, the United Farmers Cooperative Comp...
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Strangers among us
David Woodman re-evaluates the importance of Inuit oral traditions in his search to reconstruct the events surrounding Sir John Franklin's tragic 1845 expedition. He shows that often-misunderstood tales of white men travelling through Inuit lands may in fact refer to survivors of the Franklin exp...
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The disturbed state of the russian realm
This translation of the memoirs of a German mercenary who lived in Russia throughout the first decade of the seventeenth century makes available a unique eyewitness account of the Time of Troubles (1598-1613).
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Ordinary saints
An engaging study of rural women and lived religion that explores the ties between gender, labour, and Christian belief.
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Mad flight?
How migrants from Quebec ended up stranded on São Paulo’s coffee plantations in the 1890s.
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Arctic justice
Although there was no Canadian law enforcement in the Eastern High Arctic when a crazed white fur trader was killed by an Inuk, authorities put Nuqallaq and two other Baffin Island Inuit on trial. The Canadian government saw Robert Janes's death as murder; the Inuit saw it as removing a threat fr...
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The fenian problem
Irish revolutionary nationalism, initially dedicated to insurgency, quickly descended into less conventional violence. How successive British governments responded to this challenge and the extent of their respect for essential freedoms are the subject of The Fenian Problem.Dramatic and tragic re...
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Disciples of antigonish
By charting nearly a century of growth, struggle, and organizing, Disciples of Antigonish chronicles how a small Nova Scotian diocese came to exert tremendous influence over the development of Canadian Catholicism, and create one of the most important Catholic social movements in North America.
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The captive court
In The Captive Court, Ian Bushnell explores the judicial function of the Supreme Court of Canada from its establishment in the 1870s to the present day. He traces the evolution of the Court as a creative force in Canadian law and reveals its gradual recognition of the need to move from a literal,...
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Encounters
A detailed history that challenges conventional understandings of southeastern Labrador.
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Croatia
When in the fourth century the Roman empire split into the Western and Eastern empires, the boundary between the two stretched from the Montenegrin coast up the river Drina to the confluence of the Sava and the Danube and then further north. This boundary has remained virtually unchanged for 1,50...
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Something of a peasant paradise?
A study of Acadian and French rural societies that challenges conventional interpretations of identity and agency in the Atlantic world.
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The lord's dominion
The Lord's Dominion describes the development of mainstream Canadian Methodism, from its earliest days to its incorporation into the United Church of Canada in 1925. Neil Semple looks at the ways in which the church evolved to take its part in the crusade
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Beneath flanders fields
The story of Britain and Germany's cat-and-mouse mine warfare - one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented, and mystifying conflicts of the Great War.
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From outpost to outport
In 1766 Gaspé became an outpost of the Jersey metropole; in 1886 the Channel island of Jersey abandoned the region, reducing Gaspé, on Quebec's Atlantic coast, to Canadian outport status. From Outpost to Outport provides a structural and theoretical examination of the economic relationship betwee...
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Search out the land
To date, Jews and Jewish contributions to the early development of Canada and the British colonies have been marginalized in Canadian history. In Search Out the Land Sheldon Godfrey and Judith Godfrey begin to redress this situation by illustrating and an
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Canadian expeditionary force, 1914-1919
An authoritative and extensively illustrated account of how the Canadian Army experienced the Great War.
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Cigarette nation
Highlighting the prolific marketing and advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Cigarette Nation explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette use from the 1930s to the 1950s and recounts the views and actions of tobacco executives, government officials, and Canad...
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Beardmore
How the sensational discovery of a Viking grave in northern Ontario became a major museum controversy when it was exposed as a hoax.
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The four quarters of the night
Tara Singh Bains is one of those rare people who sees the hand of God in every facet of his life. A man of strong convictions, he has consistently refused to compromise his beliefs. The Four Quarters of the Night is as much the story of his faith as of hi
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The constitutions that shaped us
The Constitutions that Shaped Us re-examines from a comparative and critical standpoint the events, key players, and texts which, taken together, help to interpret all Canadian constitutions prior to Confederation. The key constitutional documents that are studied in this book are the Royal Procl...
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The saddest country
The Saddest Country is the personal account of a diplomat's three-year obsession with Colombia. It takes the reader on a geographical tour of the country, placing in stark contrast the immense diversity and beauty of Colombia and the bloody civil war and the violence of the drug trade that mar it...
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Canada’s residential schools: the métis 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...
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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...
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Making ontario
The colony that became Ontario arose almost spontaneously out of the confusion and uncertainty following the American Revolution, as a quickly chosen refuge for some 10,000 Loyalists who had to leave their former homes. After the War of 1812 settlers began to spread throughout the inter-lake peni...
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Habitants and merchants in seventeenth-century montreal
Louise Dechêne uses the island of Montreal in the seventeenth century as a case study for an analysis of the establishment of colonial society, placing her findings in a broad historiographical context that also takes account of developments in Europe and
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Cowboys, gentlemen, and cattle thieves
Prostitution, gunfights, barroom brawls, and cattle rustling - prevailing images from the American old West - have typically been absent from histories of a gentler Canadian frontier. In Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves Warren Elofson argues that the Canadian frontier was less restrained, l...
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The living past of montreal, third edition
The Living Past of Montreal is a history of the city and its community, brought to life by fifty-seven specially commissioned charcoal and ink drawings of Old Montreal by R.D. Wilson. Beginning with the establishment of the first permanent settlement in 1642, Eric McLean describes the changing ra...
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A vacation for victory
A Vacation for Victory revives the fascinating history of the Women’s Land Army in Canada, drawing on archival letters, newspapers, interviews, and creative nonfiction to portray the working lives of women on the farm front.
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Dominion lands policy
First published in 1938, this work is important for an understanding of the settlement of the three prairie provinces and of the implementation of the National Policy initiated by Sir John A. Macdonald.
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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...
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Religion, family, and community in victorian canada
While we know a great deal about the role religion played in institutions in Victorian Canada, its place in home and family life has remained relatively unexplored. Drawing on a treasure trove of family papers and material culture, Marguerite Van Die depicts religion as "lived experience" in a po...
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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...
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L’heure des pétitions est passée
À Montréal, les manifestations des sans-travail prennent premièrement racine avant de s’étendre à d’autres villes québécoises pendant la Grande Dépression. L’heure des pétitions est passée explore l’action collective et l’économie morale des sans-travail pour comprendre leur rôle dans l’histoire ...
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Louis xv's navy, 1748-1762
Louis XV's Navy presents a sharply detailed picture of an institution caught between its Colbertian legacy and contemporary challenges arising from overseas development and imperial rivalry. James Pritchard analyses the changes that occurred in naval organization and administration in the years b...
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Spirited commitment
An institutional history of one of Canada's premier philanthropic organizations.
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The social history of ideas in quebec, 1760-1896
The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.
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The miramichi fire
How one of Canada's greatest natural disasters has been remembered and forgotten.
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Transnationalism
Original essays that argue the significance of the shared North American history of Canada and the United States rather than Canadian-American relations.
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Power and pleasure
One of the great political figures of his day, Louis Barthou was also labelled a thief, an accomplice to murder, and a sexual pervert. He was France's foreign minister when, in 1934, he suffered a fatal bullet wound during the assassination of Yugoslavia's King Alexander. Barthou had spent forty-...
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John stuart mill, socialist
Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself "under the general designation of Socialist." Taking this self-description seriously, John Stuart Mill, Socialist reinter...
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Canada's national defence: volume 2
Volumes in the Canada's National Defence series present an annotated collection of government statements on defence policy and internal studies and reports prepared by senior military officers, defence officials, and consultants to governments and ministers from about 1945 to 1997. They trace the...
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The serbian project and its adversaries
An examination of the military dimensions of Serbian aggression in the former Yugoslavia.
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A short history of modern ireland
The French Revolution unleashed new forces, particularly nationalism, on western civilization; nowhere was their impact felt more strongly than in Ireland. From 1798 on there were constant demands for changes in relations between Ireland and Britain, ranging from calls for limited autonomy within...
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Far eastern tour
The Canadian army brass and defence planners insisted on viewing the Korean conflict - the "forgotten war" - through the familiar lens of their World War II experiences. As a result Canadian soldiers in Korea suffered needless casualties and endured conditions that bordered on criminal neglect.Us...
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Grounded in eire
Off-course after a failed mission over Frankfurt in 1941, Bobby Keefer, a former McGill football star, and his best friend Jack Calder found themselves forced to bail out of their twin-engine Wellington over Southern Ireland. Much to their surprise, rather than being returned to their squadron in...
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Newfoundland in the north atlantic world, 1929-1949
The entry of Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation has been the subject of many books. But, until now, the history of the British-appointed commission which governed Newfoundland from 1934 to 1949 has not been given much attention. Peter Neary surveys the history of the commission and weighs t...
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Hegel
Over the last decade there has been renewed interest in Hegel's thought and its importance for contemporary philosophy. Hegel: New Directions presents an assessment of current thinking on this seminal philosopher. Leading scholars discuss the current re-evaluation of Hegel's thought in terms of t...
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The cultural work of photography in canada
How have photographs contributed to visualizing the "imagined community" of Canada? In what ways does the dissemination of photographs in the media and through exhibitions shape our understanding of the past? How have photographs been used to reanimate the past through memory work?
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God and government
A compelling account of the political thought of the man who started the Reformation.
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Some family
"Donald Akenson writes authoritatively and with verve about this controversial mixture of religion, politics, and culture … this is a good book that rewards repeated readings." Books in Canada
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Fontanka 16
Fontanka 16 takes a fresh look at the feared Russian tsarist secret police, the Okhranka, during the period of the imperial regime leading up to the Revolution of 1917. It is a fascinating account of the development of a secret police organization that was deeply rooted in tsarist Russia but prov...
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Finding molly johnson
In Finding Molly Johnson, Mark McGowan traces what happened to the many orphaned children who fled Ireland's Great Famine and made the long voyage to Canada. Most were not considered members of their placement families, but rather sources of cheap labour. The book revisits an important chapter of...
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The clean body
Recounting the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America and the making of the modern clean body.
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The career of toleration
John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration is one of the canonical English-language texts in the history of the idea of toleration. Its publication in 1689 sparked a heated debate with Anglican cleric Jonas Proast, and in recent years the Locke-Proast cont
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The story of labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador are like two uneasy stepsisters, each with its own distinct identity, trying to share a common house. Using original research, including personal interviews, and drawing on his forty-year association with Labrador, Bill Rompkey explores this relationship in the context o...
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Towards a godless dominion
A century ago Canada was considered to be a Christian nation and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some vigorously resisted the dominance of Christianity. Towards a Godless Dominion explores both anti-religious activism and the organized opposition religious...
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From spinster to career woman
Challenging preconceived notions about femininity, respectability, paid employment, and middle-class ladies in Victorian England.
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