Romance
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From  NEW! Chapter 16: The Distinct Society of Quebec, 1900-30 |
This chapter examines Québec’s Distinct Society which emerged in response to foreign economic and cultural control. Resistance emerged in the figure of Henri Bourassa and his … | Bryan D. Palmer | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 22: Crisis, Politics, Colonized PeoplesFirst Nations and Métis in the 1930s |
This chapter examines how during the 1930s Indigenous Peoples suffered enormous poverty, disease and tuberculosis, coercive laws and intensified efforts at assimilation through institutions such … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 23: The Second World WarCapital's Saviour/Labour's Opportunity, 1939-45 |
This chapter looks at how Canada escaped the Great Depression as the state imposed full employment and expanded its direction of the economy under such departments as C. D. Howe’s … | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 24: The Welfare State’s 1940s Origins |
This chapter details how the hardship of the Depression led to increased demands for a welfare state and how Mackenzie King’s Liberals retreated from implementing such a program. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 25: Capital at Home and Abroad, 1945-60 |
This chapter explains how the unemployment and social collapse of the Depression prompted grassroots solidarities and militant Communist organizing. | Bryan D. Palmer | 19 | 2025 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 27: Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s"The Great Darkness" |
This chapter explains how In the 1940s and 1950s Québec underwent rapid industrial growth and a more secularized labour movement led to landmark struggles like the 1949 Asbestos and 1952 … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Part IFrom: The Matryoshka Memoirs |
Part One details the story of Irina in wartime Germany in the 1940s and her life working in a prison camp hospital and in a prestigious family’s home, eventually starting a family. … | Sasha Colby | 156 | 2023 | $15.60 Add |
