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Author: Naomi Griffiths
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1991-12-15
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0773582185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays written by the controversial but significant historian Mason Wade provide his last important work on the Maritimes. Also included is a biography of Wade, an analysis of his enduring importance as an historian and a select bibliography.
Author: Yvan Lamonde
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0773541071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.
Author: George Sherwood
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2006-02-03
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1897045107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book chronicles the early lives of 18 young people who influenced the direction of the history of Canada.
Author: Paul Axelrod
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780773507531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniversities of the 1930s, declared one observer, were "loafing places for rich men's sons." In Making a Middle Class Paul Axelrod challenges this popular perception, arguing that while students who attended university during the Great Depression were relatively privileged, the majority were neither terribly affluent nor completely sheltered from hard economic times. Nor were they all men.
Author: C.P. Stacey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1984-12-15
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 1442659386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew historians are as qualified as C.P. Stacey to address the questions underlying Canada and the Age of Conflict. This volume begins his authoritative and magisterial general history of Canada's relations with the outside world. The basic theme of the work is that foreign policy, like charity, begins at home. To this end Professor Stacey emphasizes how changing social, economic, and political conditions within Canada have dictated her reactions to external problems. Volume I begins at Confederation in 1867. It describes how an isolated self-governing colony whose external relations were controlled by the British Foreign Office was broken in upon by the menaces of the modern age of world conflict and under these pressures found itself assuming the status and powers of a nation state. The dramatic years of the First World War and the peace settlement are dealt with in detail, and Volume I ends with the advent of Mackenzie King as Prime Minister in 1921. The men who made Canadian policy are strongly depicted. There are pen portraits of Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Robert Borden, Arthur Meighen, the influential civil servant Loring Christie, the young Mackenzie King, and many other Canadians, and of the statesmen abroad with whom they had to deal.
Author: Hugh Seton-watson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-03
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0429726546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis major book by one of the great political and social historians of our time is a study of the force of nationalism, a force that continues to shake our world. Reaching beyond nationalism as a doctrine, beyond the content, psychological origins, and analysis of that doctrine, the book represents and enquiry into all the important political move
Author: Jeffers Lennox
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2022-08-30
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0300268777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the United States was created—a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels The story of the Thirteen Colonies’ struggle for independence from Britain is well known to every American schoolchild. But at the start of the Revolutionary War, there were more than thirteen British colonies in North America. Patriots were surrounded by Indigenous homelands and loyal provinces. Independence had its limits. Upper Canada, Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and especially the homelands that straddled colonial borders, were far less foreign to the men and women who established the United States than Canada is to those who live here now. These northern neighbors were far from inactive during the Revolution. The participation of the loyal British provinces and Indigenous nations that largely rejected the Revolution—as antagonists, opponents, or bystanders—shaped the progress of the conflict and influenced the American nation’s early development. In this book, historian Jeffers Lennox looks north, as so many Americans at that time did, and describes how Loyalists and Indigenous leaders frustrated Patriot ambitions, defended their territory, and acted as midwives to the birth of the United States while restricting and redirecting its continental aspirations.
Author: Paul-André Linteau
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780888626042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKList of Tables List of Maps List of Figures Preface PART I- LAND AND POPULATION 1867-1929 1. The Land An American Land The Settlement of the Land The Shaping of Physical Space 2.
Author: Ian Bushnell
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1992-10-08
Total Pages: 619
ISBN-13: 0773563016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout his study, Bushnell investigates the question of the absence of an independent judicial tradition in Canada and the development of distinct legal doctrine by the Supreme Court. He analyses the nature and cause of the lack of independent thought that makes the Court "captive" to inherited traditions and legal doctrines and prevents it from achieving its true potential within the Canadian legal system. Previous studies of the Court have concentrated on the years after 1949; by expanding the coverage to include the first three-quarters of a century of the Court's existence, Bushnell has uncovered a critical aspect of Canadian legal history. Bushnell provides an analysis of more than eighty cases decided by the Court between 1876 and 1989. He examines the backgrounds and views of the sixty-seven judges who served on the Supreme Court during this period, evaluating both the role they felt they played in Canadian society and the role others expected them to play. He studies the question of the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and its effect on the Supreme Court, as well as the movement toward the abolition of appeal. In the concluding part of the study Bushnell considers the controversy over the demand for impartial justice, criticism of the judiciary, and the judges who will take the Court into the twenty-first century.
Author: Wesley B. Turner
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2011-06-16
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1459700066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2011 OHS Donald Grant Creighton Award This book is about Major General Sir Isaac Brock (1769 - October 13, 1812). It tells of his life, his career and legacy, particularly in the Canadas, and of the context within which he lived. One of the most enduring legacies of the War of 1812 on both the United States and Canadian sides was the creation of heroes and heroines. The earliest of those heroic individuals was Isaac Brock who in some ways was the most unlikely of heroes. For one thing, he was admired by his American foes almost as much as by his own people. Even more striking is how a British general whose military role in that two-and-a-half-year war lasted less than five months became the best known hero and one revered far and wide. Wesley B. Turner finds this outcome astonishing and approaches the subject from that point of view.
