Kategoria BISAC: History >> Canada - General

This volume examines the long-term consequences of the Holocaust on survivors and their children some four decades after the war. This book represents the culmination of nine years of collaborative effort, consisting primarily of findings drawn from two sample surveys of Jewish residents in Montreal. This volume covers new research topics that have been neglected in the survivor literature, including personality, familial interactions, vocational achievements, sociopolitical attitudes. an excellent source of material from a sociopolitical and psychological perspective. The assessment of...

Aronsen draws on recently declassified documents in Ottawa and Washington to provide a reassessment of Canada's special relationship with the U.S. Toward this end, detailed new information is provided about Canada's contribution to the creation of the postwar economic order from the Bretton Woods Agreement to GATT. Canada's cooperation was rewarded by special economic concessions including the extension of the Hyde Park agreement in 1945, the inclusion of the off-shore purchases clause to the Marshall Plan, and Article II of the NATO Treaty. After the outbreak of the Korean War, Canada's...

This book offers a many-faceted examination of the cultures of the Tlingit, the Haida, the Tsimshian, the Bella Coola, the Kwakiutl, the Nootka, and the Salish--Indian peoples of the coast running from the Canadian border area of Juan de Fuca Strait to Yakutat Bay in southeastern Alaska.

Professor McFeat has brought together key writings by seventeen authorities including Franz Boas, Helen Codere, Viola E. Garfield, and Wayne Suttles. General readers as well as scholars have an opportunity to examine a wide range of literature and thereby to increase their understanding of one of the...

David Thompson (1770-1857) is considered by many to have been the most important surveyor of North America. His achievements -- mapping the Saskatchewan River, the great bend of the Missouri River, the Great Lakes and the headwaters of the Mississippi as well as the Columbia watershed -- are the stuff of legend. Late in life Thompson wrote a retrospective memoir of his explorations, but the best way to understand his years in the fur trade is by reading his journals.

In her new Preface to the Bicentennial Edition of Columbia Journals, Barbara Belyea considers the fur-trade...

"The Frid FrameworkTM for Enterprise Knowledge Management" is a book written for the business manager. Bridging the language barrier between business and academia the Frid FrameworkTM makes Knowledge Management clear and understandable for those that want to turn the concept of Knowledge Management into definitive and quantifiable action.

Author Dr. Randy Frid has embodied 20 years of personal research, lessons learned and best practices into the framework, having implemented global KM frameworks and strategies for organizations like:

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"Canada: A Celebration from A to Z" is an important survey of the people, events, and history of a country that holds peace and tolerance in the highest regard.

Author Ray Solitaire, a respected chronicler of the country's much-lauded embrace of social, economic, racial, and sexual justice since the 1960s, takes an in-depth look at the many unique aspects of Canadian life in order to expose the country's exciting and true narrative to a wider audience. Liberally spiced with groundbreaking analyses and commentary, "Canada: A Celebration"will trigger comment among Canadians across the...

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In unprecedented detail, Leslie Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure. Her archival work is impressive: of the more than 30,000 emigrants who embarked for Quebec and the Maritimes during the French Regime, nearly 16,000 are chronicled here.

In considering the pattern of...