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Author : Peter Charles Newman
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015019170656
Canadian defence issues in a global perspective. An analysis of Canada's long-ignored defence policies.
Author : Doug Lennox
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781459739444
A National Bestseller! A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday. Just in time for Canada’s 150th birthday comes this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians, sports, word origins, geography, and everything in between. In these pages, you’ll learn the answers to questions like: Where did the word Canuck come from? How did an aristocratic French girl become a Canadian Robinson Crusoe? What famous explorer played hockey in the Arctic? Who was the first black woman elected to Canada’s Parliament? What unlikely team beat Canada for the gold medal for hockey in the 1936 Winter Olympics? How did the Halifax Explosion occur?
Author : Rob Shields
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136134449
The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining `places on the margin'.
Author : Bob Plamondon
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781456616717
Finally, after over 30 years of hagiographies, comes a book that sets the record straight and tells us the truth about Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In this unprecedented and meticulously researched sweep of the record, Globe and Mail bestselling author Bob Plamondon challenges the conventional wisdom that Trudeau was a great prime minister. With new revelations, fresh insights, and in-depth analysis, Plamondon reveals that the man did not measure up to the myth. While no one disputes Trudeau's intelligence, toughness, charisma, and the flashes of glamour he brought Canada, in the end the pirouettes were not worth the price.
Author : Nick Brune
Publisher : Sevenoaks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1862007071
Canada is a country of contrasts. Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, its geography includes rainforests, deserts, and arctic tundra . . . yet most of its citizens live in a strip of land 100 miles wide, strung along the border with the United States. This sweeping history weaves together Canada's diverse strands, from pre-European days to the 21st century. Featuring 15 removable facsimile documents -- including Samuel de Champlain's 1632 map, John McCrae's handwritten notes for his poem In Flanders Fields, and the 1982 Constitution -- plus 150 photographs, "The Story of Canada" is hands-on history at its finest."
Author : Elspeth Cameron
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1551300907
The surest way to the hearts of a Canadian audience is to inform them that their souls are to be identified with rock, rapids, wilderness and virgin (but exploitable) forest. Multiculturalism, feminism, postmodernism and regionalism - these and other vital movements jostle for expression in Canada. This title deals with this topic.
Author : Ernie Regehr
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0888629591
First published in 1987, Arms Canada paints a disturbing picture of the Canadian arms industry, an industry whose sales then totalled $3 billion annually.
Author : Sourayan Mookerjea,Imre Szeman,Gail Faurschou
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822392163
DIVCanada is situated geographically, historically, and culturally between old empires (Great Britain and France) and a more recent one (the United States), as well as on the terrain of First Nations communities. Poised between historical and metaphorical empires and operating within the conditions of incomplete modernity and economic and cultural dependency, Canada has generated a body of cultural criticism and theory, which offers unique insights into the dynamics of both center and periphery. The reader brings together for the first time in one volume recent writing in Canadian cultural studies and work by significant Canadian cultural analysts of the postwar era. Including essays by anglophone, francophone, and First Nations writers, the reader is divided into three parts, the first of which features essays by scholars who helped set the agenda for cultural and social analysis in Canada and remain important to contemporary intellectual formations: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and Anthony Wilden in communications theory; Northrop Frye in literary studies; George Grant and Harold Innis in a left-nationalist tradition of critical political economy; Fernand Dumont and Paul-Émile Borduas in Quebecois national and political culture; and Harold Cardinal in native studies. The volume’s second section showcases work in which contemporary authors address Canada’s problematic and incomplete nationalism; race, difference, and multiculturalism; and modernity and contemporary culture. The final section includes excerpts from federal policy documents that are especially important to Canadians’ conceptions of their social, political, and cultural circumstances. The reader opens with a foreword by Fredric Jameson and concludes with an afterword in which the Quebecois scholar Yves Laberge explores the differences between English-Canadian cultural studies and the prevailing forms of cultural analysis in francophone Canada. Contributors. Ian Angus, Himani Bannerji, Jody Berland, Paul-Émile Borduas, Harold Cardinal, Maurice Charland, Stephen Crocker, Ioan Davies, Fernand Dumont, Kristina Fagan, Gail Faurschou, Len Findlay, Northrop Frye, George Grant, Rick Gruneau, Harold Innis, Fredric Jameson, Yves Laberge, Jocelyn Létourneau, Eva Mackey, Lee Maracle, Marshall McLuhan, Katharyne Mitchell, Sourayan Mookerjea, Kevin Pask, Rob Shields, Will Straw, Imre Szeman, Serra Tinic, David Whitson, Tony Wilden/div
Author : Jeremy Taggart,Jonathan Torrens
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781443449304
Sprung from their hugely successful podcast Canadianity, Taggart (that guy from that band) and Torrens (that guy from that show) share a collection of showbiz tales from the road and relatable everyday anecdotes, all wrapped up in a nostalgic fondness for this great country. Canadianity takes readers on a cross-country journey, shining the spotlight on notable local heroes (or bahds), the best places to crush food and the greasiest watering holes, coast to coast to coast. Replete with lists of Canada’s top bands, television shows and athletes, as well as random observations about everything this country has to offer, Canadianity is often provocative and always hilarious. Drawing on their combined experiences as a legendary drummer (Our Lady Peace) and a veteran talk-show host (Jonovision) respectively, Taggart and Torrens have infused their first book with equal parts beer and pop culture and added a heaping helping of irreverence.
Author : Nancy Roberts,UBC Academic Women's Association
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780773516687
Schools of Sympathy is a feminist exploration of gender and identification in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. In each of these novels the heroine is portrayed as a victim. Nancy Roberts examines how the reader's sympathy for the heroines is constructed, the motivations and desires involved in an identification with victimization, and the gender and power roles that such an identification calls into play.
Author : John Herd Thompson,Stephen J. Randall
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0820337250
The United States and Canada have the world’s largest trading relationship and the longest shared border. Spanning the period from the American Revolution to post-9/11 debates over shared security, Canada and the United States offers a current, thoughtful assessment of relations between the two countries. Distilling a mass of detail concerning cultural, economic, and political developments of mutual importance over more than two centuries, this survey enables readers to grasp quickly the essence of the shared experience of these two countries. This edition of Canada and the United States has been extensively rewritten and updated throughout to reflect new scholarly arguments, emphases, and discoveries. In addition, there is new material on such topics as energy, the environment, cultural and economic integration, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, border security, missile defense, and the second administration of George W. Bush.
Author : Ann Hansen
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771131308
Ann Hansen stood trial as one of the so-called “Squamish Five.” Sentenced to life in prison, she served seven years. Now she tells her story for the first time. Direct Action captures the excitement and indignation of the counterculture of the early ’80s. Missile tests were fuelling a new arms race. Reckless megaprojects threatened the global environment. Alienation, punk rock, and militancy were on the rise. Hansen and her fellow urban guerrillas believed that sabotaging government and corporate property could help turn things around. To prove their point, they bombed the Litton Systems plant in Toronto, where components for Cruise Missiles were being made. Hansen’s book poses unresolved ethical dilemmas. In light of the recent explosion of anti-globalization protests, Direct Action mirrors the resurgence of militant activity around the world.
Author : Peter C. Newman
Publisher : Douglas Gibson Books
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551994505
The #1 national bestseller now revised and updated with a new Epilogue. Now aged 75, Peter C. Newman at last tells the story of his stranger-than-fiction life. Try to keep up as we follow his many lives: as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; a Jewish kid in short pants being machine-gunned by Nazi fighter planes on the beach at Biarritz, en route to the last ship to escape from France in 1940; as a refugee on an Ontario farm; as an outsider on a scholarship at Upper Canada College; as a Financial Post journalist, then an author whose Renegade in Power made Canadian politics dramatic and disrespectfully exciting for the first time; as the man who revealed the secrets of the rulers of the Canadian business world in The Canadian Establishment, and other huge business success stories, including The Establishment Man, on Conrad Black; or the millionaire who turned his back on business books and tackled Canadian history (Company of Adventurers and other triumphs), in a career where his work has dominated the bestseller lists in politics, business, history, and current affairs. In the midst of all this were his years at the Toronto Star and Maclean’s where, as editor, he took the magazine weekly – a huge accomplishment. He is still a legend there, where his columns continue to run. He knew and wrote about every prime minister from Louis St. Laurent to Paul Martin and every prominent Canadian – hero or villain – in between. Yet his most interesting character is – Peter C. Newman. Incredibly, this central figure known to millions of Canadians sees himself as a perennial outsider. In personal terms, the rich little Czech boy whose nannies never stayed talks frankly about his marriages and the women he has known before his ultimate marriage to his beloved Alvy. His enthusiasms – from jazz to the Canadian Navy, not to mention his adventures on his beloved sailboat – make for a rich portrait of an astonishingcharacter, one who never stops being controversial.
Author : J. L. Granatstein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442611788
"Canada's Army traces the full three-hundred year history of the Canadian military from its origins in New France to the Conquest, the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812; from South Africa and the two World Wars to the Korean War and contemporary peacekeeping efforts, and the War in Afghanistan. Granatstein points to the inevitable continuation of armed conflict around the world and makes a compelling case for Canada to maintain properly equipped and professional armed forces."--pub. desc.
Author : Nelson Michaud,Kim Richard Nossal
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774808644
Based on material presented at a 1999 conference, these 19 contributions assess the foreign policy of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative government during a period that witnessed Canada's entry into the Organization of American States, free trade agreements, some progress in women's roles in policy formation, and other historic developments. Michaud (U. of Quebec; Dalhousie U., Halifax) and Nossal (political studies, Queen's U., Kingston) introduce this era in Canadian politics prior to analyses of specific issues and the policy-making process. Appends a chronology of events, a photo gallery, a list of foreign policy appointments, and a bibliographical essay. c. Book News Inc.
