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A history of antisemitism in canada
State-of-the-art account of the phenomenon builds on the foundation of numerous previous studies on antisemitism, and on antisemitism in Canada in particular. Attempts to understand the many ways in which antisemitism has impacted Canada as a whole, and examines most especially its influence on t...
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An unrecognized contribution
Women in nineteenth-century Toronto owned factories and stores, were involved in professions and vocations, and were not housebound uneducated women as historians generally suggest. Elizabeth Gillan Muir shows how wide-ranging women’s activities were — from owning taverns, schools, and market gar...
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Atlantic canada's irish immigrants
Challenging the commonplace view that the Irish immigration saga was primarily driven by dire events in Ireland, Lucille Campey’s groundbreaking work redraws the picture of early Irish settlement in Atlantic Canada. Extensively documented, and drawing on all known passenger lists of the period, t...
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Busted
Long-listed for the George Ryga Award.Canada’s drug laws are constantly changing. But what does Canada’s history of drug prohibition say about its future?Busted is an illustrated history of Canadian drug prohibition and resistance to that prohibition. Reproducing over 170 archival and contemporar...
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Canada and the blackface atlantic
This book traces the rise of Canadian blackface, including the country’s first stages. It outlines the minstrels troupes, jubilee choirs and concert singers who performed to audiences on the same stages, and ultimately argues that the theatre helped to create racial and gender stereotypes while a...
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Canada in the world
An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation, this book charts a unique path by locating Canada’s colonial foundations at the heart of the analysis. Canada in the World begins by arguing that the colonial relations with Indigenous people...
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Canada, a working history
A history of work in Canada in its different forms over time and how it was shaped by an important range of influences.
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Cantwells’ way
In Cantwells’ Way, James E. Candow examines the relationship between people, place and technology at the Cape Spear Lightstation in Newfoundland and Labrador. Modern lighthouses and fog alarms were products of the new understandings of light and sound that emerged from the Scientific Revolution, ...
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Cold war, 50th anniversary edition
“A thorough, evocative, exciting account of what happened that September … MacSkimming’s control of the story and his feel for character … give it a new electricity.”—The Globe and MailRelive the excitement of the greatest hockey series ever played, now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.When t...
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Neoliberalism and national culture
Despite many claims to the contrary, Québec and Canada demonstrate the continued importance of state institutional authority, even under Neoliberalism
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Noble illusions
One hundred years ago saw the declaration of a war that would forever change our understanding of war. With a staggering loss of life, World War One was, by all accounts, a brutal and devastating tragedy. And yet, on the eve of the hundredth anniversary, countries around the world are preparing t...
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Ontario and quebec’s irish pioneers
Taking on the myth that Irish settlers in Canada were a wave of famine victims, Lucille Campey reveals the pioneering achievements of the Irish who began populating — and thriving in — Ontario and Quebec a century before the famine of 1840. The second volume of the Irish in Canada series brings a...
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Ron thom, architect
A definitive biography of an iconic Canadian architect—and a social portrait of the midcentury design world he lived in. Ron Thom came of age in the mid-20th century, just as the modern movement and an impending building boom were about to reshape the country. Talented in music and art as well as...
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Rough road to the north
The exploration of the Canadian and Alaskan frontier still calls to the wonder of our souls. Poet and novelist, Jim Christy explores the history of the building of the great Alcan highway through his personal experiences and the stories of residents and pioneers who came before him.
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Runaway wives and rogue feminists
In the supposedly enlightened ’60s and ’70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn’t talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened Can...
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The long sixties
Inspiring stories from seven Canadians who have spent sixty plus years fighting for social justice and transformative change.
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Viola desmond’s canada
Winner of the 2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction!The Miramichi Reader’s best non-fiction book of 2016In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government reco...
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Where paralytics walk and the blind see
An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always b...
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