Chris Armstrong: 10 books
Anything From a Pin to an Elephant
Tales of Norfolk Retail
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The popularity of recent television drama series such as The Paradise and Mr Selfridge, and the splendid three-part documentary Shopgirls: the True Story of Life Behind the Counter, is evidence enough of the level of public interest in the history of the retail trade. Even today, Norfolk boasts a...
The Politics of Federalism
Ontario's Relations with the Federal Government. 1867-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
The British North America Act of 1867 fashioned a Canadian federation which was intended to be a highly centralized union led by a powerful national government. Soon after Confederation, however, the government of Ontario took the lead in demanding a greater share of the power for the provinces, and...
Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms
Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms describes the evolution of the securities market in Canada, from the onset of trading, through the boom of the 1920s and the depression of the 1930s, to the outbreak of the Second World War.
The book documents the problems of fraud, misrepresentation, and manipulation...
Moose Pastures and Mergers
The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Long before the spectacular collapse of Bre-X in 1997, the Canadian capital markets had their share of swindlers and crooks. In the boom times after Second World War, hard-sell speculative mining ventures, pushing what often amounted to a few acres of moose pasture, riddled over-the-counter markets...
Global Distributive Justice
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Global distributive justice is now part of mainstream political debate. It incorporates issues that are now a familiar feature of the political landscape, such as global poverty, trade justice, aid to the developing world and debt cancellation. This is the first textbook to focus exclusively on issues...
Justice and Natural Resources
An Egalitarian Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Struggles over precious resources such as oil, water, and land are increasingly evident in the contemporary world. States, indigenous groups, and corporations vie to control access to those resources, and the benefits they provide. These conflicts are rapidly spilling over into new arenas, such as...
Rethinking equality
The challenge of equal citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Do contemporary theories of equality provide an adequate response to the inequalities that afflict contemporary societies? And what is the connection between theories of equality...
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians
Finding Authentic Faith in a Forgotten Age with C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay in the church. They seem to assume that the church apostatized from true Christianity after it gained cultural influence in the time of Constantine,...
Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally
CARR Yearbook 2018/2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019
2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...
by Keith Blakemore-Noble, Chris Howard, Calvin Coyles
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
We all face new beginnings at many times in our lives. Be it a changing career, entering or leaving a relationship, emigrating to a new country, retiring, reevaluating life after a brush with death, or rebuilding life after losing everything. So often what some see as a wondrous opportunity can appear...