Maritime Region
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 NEW! Rebuilding HalifaxA History of the Halifax Relief Commision |
Using the perspectives of law, politics, public policy and intergovernmental relations, historian Barry Cahill describes the complex activities of an almost-unaccountable agency that took the … | Barry Cahill | 226 | 2020 | View |
 NEW! The Attack on Nova Scotia’s SchoolsThe story behind 25 years of tumultuous change |
Nova Scotia’s public schools and their students have faced dramatic conflict and drastic change over the past 25 years. While critics charge that schools are failing kids, teachers have … | Grant Frost | 180 | 2020 | View |
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From NEW! Foreword |
- | Grant Frost | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! IntroductionFrom: Rebuilding Halifax |
The introduction provides a brief overview of the history of the Halifax Relief Commission and it’s activities over the course of its six-decade existence. | Barry Cahill | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Halifax ReliefFrom Citizen’s Committee to Government Commission (1917-1918) From: Rebuilding Halifax |
Chapter 1 Discusses the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the Mont Blanc in Halifax harbour. The chapter describes how, within hours of the catastrophe, local government and business … | Barry Cahill | 29 | 2020 | $2.90 Add |
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From NEW! The Roots of Educational Reform |
- | Grant Frost | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Inventing the Myth that Our Schools Are Failing (1980-2000) |
- | Grant Frost | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! The First Year-1918 From: Rebuilding Halifax |
Chapter 2 discusses the actions of the Halifax Relief Commission in the first year after the explosion. | Barry Cahill | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
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From NEW! The Global Education Reform Movement (2000-2010) |
- | Grant Frost | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Thomas Adams and Town Planning for the Devastated Area(1918) From: Rebuilding Halifax |
Chapter 3 discusses the plans for the rebuilding of the devastated North End of Halifax into what would eventually become the Hydrostone neighbourhood. | Barry Cahill | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Benevolent Oligarchy or “Political Octopus”?(1919-1921) From: Rebuilding Halifax |
Chapter 4 discusses the political and financial controversies that the Halifax relief commission became embroiled in after the end of the First World War, as reconstruction of the destroyed areas … | Barry Cahill | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Connecting Education & Employability (1990-2010) |
- | Grant Frost | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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From NEW! The Long Anticlimax(1922-1945) From: Rebuilding Halifax |
Chapter 5 discusses the work of the Halifax Relief Commission in the decades after reconstruction of the city was concluded, as its role became managing the pension funds for explosion victims … | Barry Cahill | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! The Think Tank Campaign to Privatize |
- | Grant Frost | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! How the Media Turned Nova Scotia Against Its Teachers (2010-2014) |
- | Grant Frost | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Twilight of the Gods(1945-1972) From: Rebuilding Halifax |
Chapter 6 discusses the gradual winding down of the Relief Commissions work after the Second World war as disputes over its roles and responsibilities with the municipal, provincial, and federal … | Barry Cahill | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
