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Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay
ISBN: 9780773522855 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay presents the scientific achievements of the Hudson Bay Company's early employees, drawing largely on materials in the HBC Winnipeg archives. C. Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, and Mary Houston make amends for two centuries of neglect of these collector-observers, showing that fur traders in isolated trading posts on Hudson Bay were involved in some of the earliest stirrings of science on the continent andd that the fur traders and Native people worked together in a remarkable symbiosis, beneficial to both parties. the HBC trading posts over two centuries...
Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay presents the scientific achievements of the Hudson Bay Company's early employees, drawing largely on mate...
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430,52 zł |
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Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945: Volume 36
ISBN: 9780773523081 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative interpretation of government policy toward Ukrainian Canadians. Drawing extensively on Canadian, British, American, and Soviet archival material, he highlights the connection between the government's foreign and domestic concerns and the implications of each for Canadian nation building. Meticulously researched and richly detailed, Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945 offers a clear but critical statement about Canada's uneven approach to...
Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative inter...
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165,98 zł |
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Irish Migrants in the Canadas: A New Approach, Second Edition: Volume 101
ISBN: 9780773523210 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Including a new preface by the author, this work probes beyond the aggregate statistics of most studies of the migration process. Bruce Elliott traces the genealogies, movements, landholding strategies, and economic lives of 775 families of Irish immigrants who came to Canada between 1815 and 1855 from County Tipperary, Ireland. He follows his subjects not only from Ireland to Canada but in their subsequent movements within North America. His work should be of interest for discussions of 19th-century society in Ireland, Canada and the United States.
Including a new preface by the author, this work probes beyond the aggregate statistics of most studies of the migration process. Bruce Elliott traces...
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176,36 zł |
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Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada during the Great War: Volume 41
ISBN: 9780773523500 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience. Period photographs and first person accounts augment the text, helping to communicate not only the layered and textured character of the experience but the human drama of the story as well. A comprehensive roster identifying those interned in the frontier camps of the Rocky Mountains is also included.
Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and ...
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300,85 zł |
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Nationalism from the Margins : Italians in Alberta and British Columbia
ISBN: 9780773523708 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a fresh approach to the study of immigration adaptation and collective and individual identity formation. In analysing a century of Italian migration to Alberta and British Columbia, this work documents a multicultural experience and vision of Canada that long preceded the official policy of 1971.
Presents a fresh approach to the study of immigration adaptation and collective and individual identity formation. In analysing a century of Italian m...
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155,56 zł |
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From Bourassa to Bourassa: Wilderness to Restoration, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780773523920 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Bourassa, a pariah after losing power to the separatist Parti Quebecois in the 1976 election, emerged a decade later from political exile to lead his party back to power. As he said: "I succeeded my successor." Claude Ryan, formerly the respected publisher of Le Devoir, had led the Quebec Liberal Party and the federalist coalition to a decisive victory in the 1980 referendum on Quebec sovereignty, but the uneasy alliance of Ryan and Pierre Trudeau did not survive the prime minister's unilateral patriation of the Canadian constitution. This contributed to Ryan's defeat in the 1981...
Robert Bourassa, a pariah after losing power to the separatist Parti Quebecois in the 1976 election, emerged a decade later from political exile to le...
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165,98 zł |
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Colonization and Community : The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class
ISBN: 9780773524033 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast proletariat. By connecting the story of Vancouver Island to the larger story of Victorian industrialization, he delineates what was distinctive and...
In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond...
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155,56 zł |
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Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers: The Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic: Volume 32
ISBN: 9780773524057 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. David Damas demonstrates that eventually, concerns over health, housing, and education and welfare brought about policy changes that inevitably led to centralization.
The view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. David D...
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186,73 zł |
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The Dream of Nation: Second Edition: Volume 198
ISBN: 9780773524101 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essential reading for an understanding of contemporary Quebec, The Dream of Nation traces the changing nature of various "dreams of nation," from the imperial dream of New France to the separatist dream of the 1980 referendum. Susan Mann demonstrates that these dreams, fashioned by elites in response to the recurring question of how to be French in North America, proposed an ever-elusive unanimity. She discusses how social, economic, and political pressures, as well as changing populations, invariably thwarted one dream and provided the makings of another. A work of pioneering scholarship and...
Essential reading for an understanding of contemporary Quebec, The Dream of Nation traces the changing nature of various "dreams of nation," from the ...
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145,18 zł |
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The Myth of the Sacred : The Charter, the Courts, and the Politics of the Constitution in Canada
ISBN: 9780773524354 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seeks to challenge the 'myth of the sacred' - the idea that certain aspects of the constitutional process - judicial political behaviour, interest group politics, and centralization of power - are untouchable politically.
Seeks to challenge the 'myth of the sacred' - the idea that certain aspects of the constitutional process - judicial political behaviour, interest gro...
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145,18 zł |
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The Founding Moment
ISBN: 9780773524477 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. He explores the motives, goals, and social and religious ideas that were behind the creation of this important institution of higher education, explaining the reasons Trinity was founded, the role it played in Canadian society, and the way its founding doctrines were transformed into a functioning college. He also challenges the social and educational views of the founders, giving voice to those who did not share the founders' vision and criticized the course the college was determined to pursue. These dissenting voices help us understand the problems the new college faced and the steps a new...
He explores the motives, goals, and social and religious ideas that were behind the creation of this important institution of higher education, explai...
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342,34 zł |
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Respectable Burial: Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery
ISBN: 9780773525290 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a social history of death, burial and a cherished public space in Montreal from the early 19th century to the present day. Brian Young shows how the history of the Mount Royal Cemetery, founded in 1852, mirrors the evolving social makeup, changing mores, and tragic events of what was long Canada's largest city. We meet not only prominent members of the elite but ordinary Montrealers, natives, the poor and suicides. Young shows how epidemics, train-wrecks, and the deaths of soldiers or firemen challenged conventional notions of the family and reveals that the cemetery introduced new...
This is a social history of death, burial and a cherished public space in Montreal from the early 19th century to the present day. Brian Young shows h...
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280,10 zł |
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Toward the Charter : Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960
ISBN: 9780773525368 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the origins of the revolution in Canadian human rights, from its beginnings in the Great Depression to the developments of the 1960s. This book provides an account of the efforts to resist the abuse of civil liberties at the hands of the federal government and provincial legislatures and the campaign for a national bill of rights.
Explores the origins of the revolution in Canadian human rights, from its beginnings in the Great Depression to the developments of the 1960s. This bo...
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155,56 zł |
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The Canadian Federalist Experiment: From Defiant Monarchy to Reluctant Republic
ISBN: 9780773525375 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of how a group of men The Fathers of Confederation forged a new nation Canada from the splintered remains of a failed British North American empire has oft been told, says Vaughan (political science, U. of Guelph), but his telling is one of moral as well as political defiance. It was the 19th century, yet the Father insisted on retaining
The story of how a group of men The Fathers of Confederation forged a new nation Canada from the splintered remains of a failed British North American...
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155,56 zł |
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The Story of Labrador
ISBN: 9780773525740 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world's richest nickel mine at Voisey's Bay is just the latest important natural resource discovery in Labrador's history. Nine thousand years ago, in the same Voisey's Bay, the aboriginal peoples found and traded an equally choice stone, Ramah chert. The Story of Labrador is the story of the Innu caribou hunters, of the Inuit people of the seal, of French fishermen and Basque whalers, of traders, of absentee governors, of settlers, and of the fight for life in a harshly beautiful land. It is the story of the coming of the industrial machine and the great air base at Goose Bay. It is the...
The world's richest nickel mine at Voisey's Bay is just the latest important natural resource discovery in Labrador's history. Nine thousand years ago...
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363,09 zł |
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Une mort très digne: L'histoire du Cimetière Mont-Royal
ISBN: 9780773525993 / Francuski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A beautifully illustrated history of culture, religion, and public space."
A beautifully illustrated history of culture, religion, and public space."
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300,85 zł |
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A Great Duty: Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967: Volume 199
ISBN: 9780773526006 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In A Great Duty L.B. Kuffert shows that the history of Canadian culture from the war to Canada's centenary is much richer and more complex than has previously been recognized. He looks at the responses of cultural critics to such topics as war, reconstruction, science, conformity, personality, and commemoration, catching outspoken observers in the act of synthesizing new interpretations of the contemporary world and protesting the dominance of mass-produced entertainment. championed self-improvement, self-awareness, and lively engagement with one's surroundings, struggling to find a balance...
In A Great Duty L.B. Kuffert shows that the history of Canadian culture from the war to Canada's centenary is much richer and more complex than has pr...
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534,26 zł |
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A Great Duty : Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1968
ISBN: 9780773526013 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In A Great Duty L.B. Kuffert shows that the history of Canadian culture from the war to Canada's centenary is much richer and more complex than has previously been recognized. He looks at the responses of cultural critics to such topics as war, reconstruction, science, conformity, personality, and commemoration, catching outspoken observers in the act of synthesizing new interpretations of the contemporary world and protesting the dominance of mass-produced entertainment. championed self-improvement, self-awareness, and lively engagement with one's surroundings, struggling to find a balance...
In A Great Duty L.B. Kuffert shows that the history of Canadian culture from the war to Canada's centenary is much richer and more complex than has pr...
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155,56 zł |
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Cultures of Citizenship in Post-war Canada, 1940 - 1955
ISBN: 9780773526082 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultures of Citizenship in Post-war Canada, 1940-1955 argues that we need a new view of this period, one that recognizes its considerable cultural and ideological diversity. The authors explore the quest for cultural reconstruction; the emergence of new definitions of elitism, mass culture, and the relationship between the state and the individual; the changing imperatives underlying organized labour's response to the demands of economic reconstruction; federal-provincial tensions over the shape of welfare policy; the recasting of youth identities by adult authorities and among middle-class...
Cultures of Citizenship in Post-war Canada, 1940-1955 argues that we need a new view of this period, one that recognizes its considerable cultural and...
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534,26 zł |
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Visions of Canada: The Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lectures, 1958 - 1992
ISBN: 9780773526389 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Plaunt lectures began in 1958 as a memorial to Alan B. Plaunt, one of the pioneers of Canadian broadcasting. Perhaps more than anyone else, Alan Plaunt saw the CBC as an important source of information and entertainment, serving Canadians in the cause of unity and understanding. The Plaunt lectures present an unusual retrospective of persistent themes in public discourse in Canada: although the last lecture took place in 1992, the subjects treated in the series remain very much in the forefront of the intellectual and public life of this country. Lecturers represented a wide spectrum of...
The Plaunt lectures began in 1958 as a memorial to Alan B. Plaunt, one of the pioneers of Canadian broadcasting. Perhaps more than anyone else, Alan P...
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534,26 zł |
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