Canadian History
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From ![]() Nature at HomeA Social Ecology of Postwar Landscape Design From: The Culture of Nature |
The author explores post-second world war landscape design, including the explosion of suburbs and the gendered nature of the urban environment. The chapter includes 13 photos and images. | Alexander Wilson | 32 | 2019 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() Nature Education and PromotionFrom: The Culture of Nature |
The chapter examines the growing desire to educate the public, in particular school-aged children, about the preservation and conservation of nature and the environment. The chapter includes 15 … | Alexander Wilson | 40 | 2019 | $4.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! NecessityBenevolent Booze From: Bottoms Up |
Chapter 1 explores the history of alcohol in maritime societies and how it played an variety of essential roles, as a medicine, a ration for sailors, a social lubricant, and a trading commodity … | Sheilah Roberts Lukins | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Neoliberalism and Decentralized ActivismFrom: Take Back the Fight |
The second chapter, Neoliberalism and Decentralized Activism, provides background on neoliberal economic policy and considers the role of it in the destruction of social movements via the ways it … | Nora Loreto | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Never a Day Alike to the OtherFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Eighteen wraps up the story of Louise’s life by reflecting on her accomplishments. The chapter includes the author’s last encounter with Louise, reflections on her legacy, and … | Merilyn Simonds | 28 | 2022 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() New Beginnings |
Looks at division amoung the CCF as to Canada’s partitipation in WWII, looks at different leadership of the CCF and goes through the reforming for the party as the NDP | Lynn Gidluck | 33 | 2012 | $3.30 Add |
![]() New Brunswick and the Navy |
From the seafaring battles between the British and the French of the 1640s to the privateers of the War of 1812, from the merchant ships of the Second World War to the construction of the … | 156 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! New Context, New Arrivals, 1945–1960 |
This chapter examines the postwar period, which marked a critical break with the past and the unfolding of a new world for Montreal Jewry. It looks at linguistic and cultural movements within the … | Pierre Anctil | 57 | 2021 | $5.70 Add |
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From ![]() New Era for the LaboratoryFrom: Montreal and the Bomb |
This chapter outlines the evolution of the project, touching on The MAUD Committee, Lew Kowarski’s work on the project, The ZEEP design, chemicals experimentation, the De Gaulle meeting, … | Gilles Sabourin | 41 | 2021 | $4.10 Add |
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From ![]() New Era, Old Reality: The BC Legislature and Accountable Government |
Review of representative and responsible government in BC and assessments of parliamentary reforms. | Norman Ruff | 13 | 2009 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! New FranceA Frustrated Fiefdom, 1627-1763 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter reviews the establishment of a colony in Quebec and its governance under the Company of New France and the effects of war. It highlights experiences of such populations as women, … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() NewfoundlandSeparation and Divorce From: No Place For A Woman |
The opening sections of the book provide a brief biography of Ella Manuel, describing her Newfoundland upbringing, travels, and relationships throughout her life. | Antony Berger | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Newton’s LawFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
This chapter explores Chris Newton’s younger years; he was an early adopter of home computers, and later enrolled in the computer science program at the University of New Brunswick. | Gordon Pitts | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Nègres Blancs, Nègres NoirsFrom: Fear of a Black Nation |
Chapter Four is an examination of the intersection of politics, security, and racism in 1960s Canada. It focuses on the Black Power movement and the Canadian government’s response, … | David Austin | 24 | 2023 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() Disengagement Is No Longer an Option: David RaysideFrom: Any Other Way |
Rebecka Sheffield recounts the work of David Rysdale in advocating for queer rights in Canada. | Rebecka Sheffield | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() “No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Ocean”From: Black Geographies |
Introduction to the themes of the book. Found in black geographies are a history of brutal segregation and erasure, but also processes that inform a different or new approach to the production of … | Clyde Woods; Katherine McKittrick | 13 | 2007 | $1.30 Add |


















