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On the Edge of Empire
Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2001
"On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history. Utilising feminist and post-colonial...
by Robert McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Between 1912 and 1925, Ireland convulsed with political and revolutionary upheaval in pursuit of self-government. Canadians of Irish descent, both Catholic and Protestant, diligently followed these conflicts, and many became actively involved in the dramatic events overseas.
Irish Canadian...
Creative Canada
A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Creative and Performing Artists (Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to find. This series has been created to provide...
Warming Up to the Cold War
Canada and the United States' Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
When U.S. President Harry Truman asked his allies for military support in the Korean War, Canada's government, led by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, was reluctant. St-Laurent's government was forced to change its position however, when the Canadian populace, conditioned to significant degrees by...
Performing Autobiography
Contemporary Canadian Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In Performing Autobiography, Jenn Stephenson presents an innovative new approach to autobiography studies that links the growing field of research to drama. Stephenson’s analysis engages with performance histories to demonstrate the extent to which the dramatic form, which recasts autobiography...
Sisters or Strangers?
Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the...
Middleton & Rowley
Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Can the inadvertent clashes between collaborators produce more powerful effects than their concordances? For Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, the playwriting team best known for their tragedy The Changeling, disagreements and friction proved quite beneficial for their work.
This first full-length...
Canada's Rural Majority
Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada’s rural population grew throughout the century after 1871 – even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed in their lives from rural populations elsewhere....
A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada
The Journals, Letters and Art of Anne Langton
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2008
Anne Langton (1804-1893) arrived in Upper Canada in 1837 to join her brother John on his settler farm near Fenelon Falls, Ontario. An accomplished miniaturist, landscape artist, and writer, Langton documented ten years of family and community hardship and growth in her journals, letters, and art,...
A Happy Holiday
English Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
One of the most revealing things about national character is the way that citizens react to and report on their travels abroad. Oftentimes a tourist's experience with a foreign place says as much about their country of origin as it does about their destination. A Happy Holiday examines the travels...
Passing Judgment
The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The royal judge was an archetypal character in French tragedy during the 17th century. This figure impersonated the king by asserting his judicial authority and bringing order to an otherwise chaotic world.
In Passing Judgment, Hélène Bilis examines how an overlooked character-type—the...
The Lazier Murder
Prince Edward County, 1884
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them — Joseph Thomset and David Lowder — were sentenced to death by a jury...
Adapting in the Dust
Lessons Learned from Canada's War in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Canada’s six-year military mission in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province was one of the most intense and challenging moments in Canadian foreign affairs since the Korean War. A complex war fought in an inhospitable environment, the Afghanistan mission tested the mettle not just of Canada’s soldiers...
Canada Since 1945
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
From the preface:
"A visitor seeing Canada for the first time since 1939 might well conclude that Canada, even more than nations devastated by war, has become another country. On the surface so much remains the same: the Liberals prevail in Ottawa; the provinces quarrel with Ottawa and...