Alfred Valdmanis And The Politics Of Survival

Author : Gerhard P. Bassler
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487596422

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Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival by Gerhard P. Bassler Pdf

Alfred Valdmanis is best known in Canada for his infamous role in Premier Joey Smallwood's scheme to industrialize Newfoundland. A Latvian immigrant, he was appointed Director General of Economic Development in 1950 with the understanding that through his connections to Europe he could entice German and Baltic industrialists to the isolated, rural island. His influence was brought to an abrupt end when, in 1954, he was charged with defrauding the government. The media, latching on to his murky past and his possible affiliation with war criminals, made him the scapegoat of Newfoundland's problems, painting him as part comedian, part sinister villain. This was not the first time his name was connected with controversial issues. Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring is more the stuff of fiction than history. Between 1938, at age 29, and his ironic downfall in the safe haven of Canada, he was a finance minister of pre-war Latvia, a government official during the Soviet invasion, a shrewd collaborator under the Nazi occupation, then, a friend to the Allies, a spokesman for Latvian POW and displaced persons, and an adviser to the government of Canada. In this first serious biography of Alfred Valdamis historian Gerhard Bassler casts the story of this political manipulator and chameleon in new terms: the often tragic consequences of the will to survive.

Author : Gerhard P. Bassler
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802044131

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Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival by Gerhard P. Bassler Pdf

Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring in Latvia, Germany, and Canada from 1938 to 1954 is more the stuff of fiction than history.

Author : Arthur Slade,Roderick Stewart,Margaret Macpherson,Marguerite Paulin,Ged Martin,Ray Argyle,Julie H. Ferguson,lian goodall
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459727977

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Canadian Political Bundle by Arthur Slade,Roderick Stewart,Margaret Macpherson,Marguerite Paulin,Ged Martin,Ray Argyle,Julie H. Ferguson,lian goodall Pdf

Presenting nine titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich political history through the fascinating lives of some of its most influential lives. Profiled are: prime ministers John Diefenbaker, John A. Macdonald, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Wilfrid Laurier; suffragette Nellie McClung; and provincial leaders Joey Smallwood, Maurice Duplessis, René Lévesque, and James Douglas. Includes James Douglas Joey Smallwood John A. Macdonald John Diefenbaker Maurice Duplessis Nellie McClung Réne Lévesque Wilfrid Laurier William Lyon Mackenzie King

Author : Miriam Wright
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442656222

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A Fishery for Modern Times by Miriam Wright Pdf

In the early 1990s, the northern cod populations off the coast of Newfoundland had become so depleted that the federal government placed a moratorium on commercial fishing. The impact was devastating, both for Newfoundland's economy and for local fishing communities. Today, although this natural resource – exploited commercially for over 500 years – appears to be returning in diminished numbers, many fisheries scientists and fishers question whether the cod will ever return to its former abundance. In A Fishery for Modern Times, Miriam Wright argues that the recent troubles in the fishery can be more fully understood by examining the rise of the industrial fishery in the mid-twentieth century. The introduction of new harvesting technologies and the emergence of 'quick freezing', in the late 1930s, eventually supplanted household production by Newfoundland's fishing families. While the new technologies increased the amount of fish caught in the northwest Atlantic, Wright argues that the state played a critical role in fostering and financing the industrial frozen fish sector. Many bureaucrats and politicians, including Newfoundland's premier, Joseph Smallwood, believed that making the Newfoundland fishery 'modern', with centralization, technology, and expertise, would transform rural society, solving deep-seated economic and social problems. A Fishery for Modern Times examines the ways in which the state, ideologies of development, and political, economic, and social factors, along with political actors and fishing company owners, contributed to the expansion of the industrial fishery from the 1930s through the 1960s. While the promised prosperity never fully materialized, the continuing reliance on approaches favouring high-tech, big capital solutions put increasing pressure on cod populations in the years that followed. As Wright concludes, 'We can no longer afford to view the fisheries resources as "property" of the state and industry, to do with it as they choose. That path had led only to devastation of the resource, economic instability, and great social upheaval.'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada Imprints
ISBN : 00688398

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Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jayne Persian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003828495

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Fascists in Exile by Jayne Persian Pdf

Fascists in Exile tells the extraordinary story of the war criminals, collaborators and fascist ultranationalists who were resettled in Australia by the International Refugee Organisation between 1947 and 1952. It explores the far-right backgrounds and continuing political activism of these displaced persons in Australia, adding to our knowledge of the development of Australian anti-communism in the 1950s. These individuals argued that they had been caught between National Socialism and Soviet communism. What might that have meant for their migration and resettlement trajectories? Beyond ‘Nazi-hunting,’ what can this tell us about the challenge they posed to international and national forms, both in Europe and in Australia? This book demonstrates that fascist ideation could not only survive the war’s end but that it continued to be transnational and transcultural. At the same time, anti-fascist protests and then the war crimes investigations of the late 1980s exposed problematic pasts, a legacy with which Australia is still reckoning. The text will appeal to those with an interest in the far right, Australian migration and refugee issues.

Author : Richards Plavnieks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319576725

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Nazi Collaborators on Trial during the Cold War by Richards Plavnieks Pdf

This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in the context of the Cold War. Decades of work by prosecutors have established the facts of Latvian collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust. No group made a deeper mark in the annals of atrocity than the men of the so-called 'Arajs Kommando' and their leader, Viktors Arājs, who killed tens of thousands of Jews on Latvian soil and participated in every aspect of the 'Holocaust by Bullets.' This study also has significance for coming to terms with Latvia’s encounter with Nazism – a process that was stunted and distorted by Latvia’s domination by the USSR until 1991. Examining the country’s most notorious killers, their fates on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and contemporary Latvians’ responses in different political contexts, this volume is a record of the earliest phases of this process, which must now continue and to which this book contributes.

Author : Rosemary Sadlier,Nathan Tidridge,Peggy Dymond Leavey,Ray Argyle,Ged Martin
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459724358

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Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 31–35 by Rosemary Sadlier,Nathan Tidridge,Peggy Dymond Leavey,Ray Argyle,Ged Martin Pdf

Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: legendary Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman; Laura Secord, heroine of the War of 1812; Newfoundland politician Joey Smallwood, the final Father of Confederation; Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, the primary founder of Canada; and onetime governor general Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, an important figure in Canada’s early development. Includes Harriet Tubman Laura Secord Joey Smallwood Prince Edward, Duke of Kent John A. Macdonald

Author : Judith Fitzgerald,Michelle Labrèche-Larouche,Kate Braid,T.F. Rigelhof,Raymond Plante,Arthur Slade,John Wilson,Kathryn Bridge,Roderick Stewart,Sharon Stewart,Margaret Macpherson,lian goodall,Marguerite Paulin,Francine Legaré,Gary Evans,Deborah Cowley,Tom Shardlow,Heather Kirk,Anne Cimon,André Vanasse,Wayne Larsen,Tom Henighan,Nicholas Maes,Julie H. Ferguson,Valerie Knowles,D.T. Lahey,Edward Butts,Peggy Dymond Leavey,Rosemary Sadlier,Ray Argyle,Nathan Tidridge,Ged Martin
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 4324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459728349

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Quest Biography 35-Book Bundle by Judith Fitzgerald,Michelle Labrèche-Larouche,Kate Braid,T.F. Rigelhof,Raymond Plante,Arthur Slade,John Wilson,Kathryn Bridge,Roderick Stewart,Sharon Stewart,Margaret Macpherson,lian goodall,Marguerite Paulin,Francine Legaré,Gary Evans,Deborah Cowley,Tom Shardlow,Heather Kirk,Anne Cimon,André Vanasse,Wayne Larsen,Tom Henighan,Nicholas Maes,Julie H. Ferguson,Valerie Knowles,D.T. Lahey,Edward Butts,Peggy Dymond Leavey,Rosemary Sadlier,Ray Argyle,Nathan Tidridge,Ged Martin Pdf

This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound effect on their country and the world. Some of these figures are truly famous, while others were quietly influential. Among the wide variety of people we meet are: prime ministers (Mackenzie King, Macdonald, Laurier, and more); artists (Emily Carr, Tom Thomson); explorers (David Thompson, Samuel de Champlain), politicians (René Lévesque, Joey Smallwood), writers (Robertson Davies, Gabrielle Roy), entertainers (Emma Albani, Mary Pickford), activists (Nellie McClung, Louis Riel, Harriet Tubman), and many, many more. Let this series be your primer on the greatest figures in Canadian history. Includes Emma Albani Emily Carr George Grant Jacques Plante John Diefenbaker John Franklin Phyllis Munday Wilfrid Laurier William Lyon Mackenzie King René Lévesque Samuel de Champlain John Grierson Lucille Teasdale Maurice Duplessis David Thompson Mazo de la Roche Susanna Moodie Gabrielle Roy Louis Riel James Wilson Morrice Vilhjalmur Stefansson Robertson Davies James Douglas William C. Van Horne George Simpson Tom Thomson Simon Girty Mary Pickford Harriet Tubman Laura Secord Joey Smallwood Prince Edward, Duke of Kent John A. Macdonald Marshall McLuhan

Author : Hunter, Maureen
Publisher : OIBooks-Libros
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781896239996

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Three Plays of Maureen Hunter by Hunter, Maureen Pdf

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Author : Ray Argyle
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459703698

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Joey Smallwood by Ray Argyle Pdf

Joey Smallwood, often dubbed the "only living Father of Confederation," won six provincial elections and was premier of Newfoundland for 23 years. A crafty, canny, controversial politician, he devoted himself passionately to the cause of his native province, which became part of Canada in 1949.

Author : Anu Mai Kll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058105944

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The Baltic Countries Under Occupation by Anu Mai Kll Pdf

"This volume is a first attempt to describe the occupation years of the three Baltic republics in a joint effort and a variety of different perspectives. The ways and means of occupation, including deportations and ethnic cleansing are discussed, together with problems of collaboration. Cultural values were lost through war and occupation. Minorities, long living in the area, were attacked and differences between new and old minorities arose. The impact of occupations on culture forms an important part of the contributions. The values and modes of thinking are analyzed in a number of ways. The final section addresses the modalities of silent, persistent resistance, in particular youth culture, but also the adherence to national traditions. The new movements arising in the 1980s are represented the by the environmentalists."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arts
ISBN : NWU:35556035778711

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The Canadian Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015065433024

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

Author : Gerhard P. Bassler
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525590351

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Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens by Gerhard P. Bassler Pdf

Today German Canadians are among Canada’s most assimilated citizens, often distinguishable from other Canadians by their name only. For centuries their pioneer farmers, economic developers, industrialists, professionals, musicians, artists, missionaries, fisherman, boat builders, and soldiers have acquired an acknowledged reputation as nation builders in Canada. Not too long ago, however, they were also associated with Canada’s enemy in two world wars, discriminated against, and subjected to infringements of their citizenship rights. Virtually overnight, Canadians of German-speaking background were recast into disloyal enemy aliens. Anti-German sentiments and stigmas, unknown in Canada before World War I, became firmly entrenched and have obliterated their legacy as nation builders. This book documents and illustrates how German Canadians have experienced Canada and how Canada has experienced German Canadians over the course of four centuries. It shows what influence Canada’s relations with Germany had on this development. This is the first comprehensive synopsis of the German experience in Canada.