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  • Roots and Values in Canadian Lives

    Serier serie Heritage
    This thought-provoking volume, which represents a re-shaping of the Plaunt Lectures delivered at Carleton University, 1960, offers impressions of the art of living in Canada by one who has been deeply concerned with the relationships between our two cultures. The purpose of the author is to stimulate reflection on the genesis and the contemporary status of Canada as a bi-cultural nation. His own ... Læs mere

    115,11 kr.

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  • The Long Exile

    A true story of deception and survival amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic

    A chilling true story of deception and survival set amidst the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic.In 1922 the Irish-American explorer Robert Flaherty made a film called ‘Nanook of the North’ which captured the world's imagination. Soon afterwards, he quit the Arctic for good, leaving behind his bastard son, Joseph, to grow up Eskimo.Thirty years later a young, inexperienced policeman, Ross ... Læs mere

    101,82 kr.

  • Aboriginal Ontario

    Historical Perspectives on the First Nations

    Redigeret af Edward S. Rogers, Donald B. Smith ...
    Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume reviews the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern Ontario. The first section describes the climate and landforms of ... Læs mere

    80,10 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Trudeaumania

    The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

    af Robert Wright ...
    Finalist for the J.W. Dafoe Book PrizeA Hill-Times Best Book of the YearNearly twenty years after his death and more than thirty since his retirement from active politics, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is at long last receding from the lived memory of Canadians. But despite the distance of time, he still holds court in the minds of many, and today his son Justin now lives at 24 Sussex Drive, his own man, ... Læs mere

    150,01 kr.

  • The Public intellectual in Canada

    This illuminating, entertaining, and timely volume examines the place and impact of public intellectuals in our rapidly changing and diverse society. Boasting an all-star cast of contributors – including some of Canada’s most prominent writers, journalists, and academics – it probes the role of public discourse and intellectual persuasion in shaping Canada’s past, present, and future.The Public ... Læs mere

    256,43 kr.

  • The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors

    Canada at 150

    Whether it’s the first-past-the-post electoral system or partisan government appointees to the Senate, Canadians want better representation and accountability from the federal government. Before reforms can be enacted, however, it is important to explore and clarify the relationships among Canada’s three parliamentary institutions: Crown, Senate, and Commons.In The Constitution in a Hall of ... Læs mere

    245,11 kr.

  • Making a Global City

    How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity

    af Robert Vipond ...
    Serier serie Munk Series on Global Affairs
    Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on.Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street ... Læs mere

    313,24 kr.

  • O.D. Skelton

    A Portrait of Canadian Ambition

    When O.D. Skelton became Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s foreign policy advisor in 1923, he was already a celebrated critic of the status quo in international and domestic affairs, a loyal Liberal Party man, and a fervent nationalist who believed Canada needed to steer a path independent of Britain. Two years later, he became the permanent head of Canada’s Department of External Affairs. Between ... Læs mere

    347,61 kr.

  • Canada and the Third World

    Overlapping Histories

    Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking ... Læs mere

    250,59 kr.

  • Canadian Issues

    Essays in Honour of Henry F. Angus

    Redigeret af Robert M. Clark ...
    Serier serie Heritage
    Topics of widespread concern to Canadians interested in the social sciences and to the general reading public are dealt with in this volume of essays by a group of Canada's leading scholars in political science and history. The book is presented in honour of Henry Forbes Angus, Head of the Department of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology at the University of British Columbia from 1930 to ... Læs mere

    381,74 kr.

  • The Government of Nova Scotia

    Serier serie Heritage
    Here is a well-documented study of the structure, historical development, and present condition of the government of Nova Scotia. It deals with one of the oldest constitutions in Canada, one which was not created by statute but by the prerogative of the Crown.Nova Scotia has two major claims to priority in the history of Canadian politics: she was the first province to be granted representative ... Læs mere

    361,24 kr.

  • Red, White, and Kind of Blue?

    The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture

    Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible. Yet in recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American direction. Through the prorogation crises of 2008 and 2009, its senate reform proposals, and the ... Læs mere

    313,24 kr.