Alvin Finkel
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From  A Home Fit for Heroes |
1945-1963 Looks at the idea of two canadas (prosperity vs inequality) and how it is reflected in terms of housing in urban areas and how state policies helped to create them. The emphasis is on … | Alvin Finkel | 44 | 2012 | $4.40 Add |
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From Brave New World |
1945-1963. Looks at this period in terms of economic expansion and the emergence of a weak welfare states, notes the conflicting pressures in government policy making between public demand for … | Alvin Finkel | 41 | 2012 | $4.10 Add |
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From Canada and the World in the Era of "Globalization" |
Since 1980. Demonstrates the extent to which Canadian responses to the international marketplace and international politics were changing in the later decades of the twentieth century | Alvin Finkel | 25 | 2012 | $2.50 Add |
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From Canada in the Twenty-First Century |
Since 1980. Examines Canada in the 21st Century with focus given to the economy, the end of liberal dominance 1997-2005, domestic political developments from 2006, social movements in the new millenium | Alvin Finkel | 47 | 2012 | $4.70 Add |
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From Canada’s First People Rebel |
1963-1980. Looks at the native peoples of Canada coming together to form a national body and the movement to reclaim their rights | Alvin Finkel | 19 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Capitalist Economic Development and Popular Responses Before the First World War in EuropeFrom: Humans |
This chapter looks at worker resistance to the European imperialist and capitalist agenda from 1500 up to the First World War. It discusses the demands for collective rights and social democracy … | Alvin Finkel | 38 | 2024 | $3.80 Add |
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From NEW! Capitalist Economic Development and Popular Responses Before the First World War Outside EuropeFrom: Humans |
This chapter explores ways in which Indigenous peoples, black people and immigrant populations resisted enslavement, forced labour and the wage in North and South America and Australia, as well … | Alvin Finkel | 31 | 2024 | $3.10 Add |
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From NEW! Climate Change, Pandemics, Warfare, and the Search for a Better WorldThe 2020s Viewed in the Context of Global Human History From: Humans |
This chapter examines the growth of the environmental movement in response to the mounting climate crisis perpetuated by capitalist priorities. It explores the response to pandemics in the late … | Alvin Finkel | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! ConclusionWhat Are the Prospects for Humanity? From: Humans |
This chapter looks at the legacy of popular resistance movements in our history and asks how a species that for most of its existence was largely cooperative, egalitarian and peaceful could have … | Alvin Finkel | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Early Empires and Popular ResistanceFrom: Humans |
This chapter discusses the resistance of ordinary people to the ruling of elites as societies became increasingly stratified. It explores slave revolts, popular rebellion and religious movements … | Alvin Finkel | 43 | 2024 | $4.30 Add |
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From English-Canadian Nationalism |
1963-1980. Looks at Canada’s national identity and the quest to keep it separate from America. Specifically looks at economic policy, continental integration of industry and foreign policy | Alvin Finkel | 21 | 2012 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! European Imperialism and Popular ResistanceFrom: Humans |
This chapter discusses the beginnings of European Imperialism during the early 1500s across the globe. It recounts resistance to conquest, forced labour and religious conversion against European … | Alvin Finkel | 35 | 2024 | $3.50 Add |
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From NEW! Foraging SocietiesFrom: Humans |
In this chapter, the author examines early hunter-gatherer societies, first looking at Sapiens, Neanderthals and then various peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. He finds … | Alvin Finkel | 31 | 2024 | $3.10 Add |
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From NEW! From Feudalism to Capitalism:The Role of the Common People in the “Middle Ages” From: Humans |
This chapter looks at the arrival of feudalism and then capitalism across the world. It reviews instances of resistance to hierarchical rule and serfdom by peasants in Europe, Indigenous … | Alvin Finkel | 37 | 2024 | $3.70 Add |
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From From the Quiet Revolution to the First Sovereignty Referendum |
1963-1980. Looks at the dramatic social change in francophone Quebec and the Quiet Revolution as a society-wide movement that imbraced Trade Unions, the women’s movement, and even the … | Alvin Finkel | 33 | 2012 | $3.30 Add |
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From NEW! From the Second World War to Cold War and Post-Colonialism, 1939–1980From: Humans |
This chapter discusses how, as the supremacy of European imperialism was replaced by the imperial power of the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII, popular resistance in the form of … | Alvin Finkel | 45 | 2024 | $4.50 Add |
