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From ![]() NEW! Lord Durham’s “Radical” Intervention (1839) and Reaction’s Revenge (1849)From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at the policies of Lord Durham which created the Province of Canada under the Act of Union of 1840 and implemented a common commercial system and punitive measures particularly … | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
![]() Lost FeastCulinary Extinction and the Future of Food |
When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. … | Lenore Newman | 308 | 2019 | View |
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From ![]() Love/Cream/HeatFrom: The Whole Animal |
129 | Corinna Chong | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() Love Without PainFrom: On Love and Tyranny |
In this chapter, Heberlein explores Arendt’s ideas about love in the context of platonic friendship. | Ann Heberlein | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
![]() Loyalist Rebellion in New BrunswickA defining conflict for Canada's political culture |
The American refugees who fled north to Canada after Britain’s defeat by the revolutionary U.S. army were determined to build a culture separate from the U.S. By their numbers and their … | 184 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! Loyalty |
This chapter explores loyalty and more mafia history in Montreal and beyond. | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Lucky |
In this chapter, the author describes his upbringing as a young gay Black man in Canton, Ohio. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1995, but protease inhibitor medication successfully treated his condition. | Eddie Walker | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! L’Union nationale à la croisée des cheminsFrom: 1968 in Canada |
Après le décès de Maurice Duplessis et celui de Paul Sauvé, suivis de l’élection de Jean Lesage et de son « équipe du tonnerre », rien ne va plus … | Alexandre Turgeon | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() Lyceum Camp, SoerabajaFrom: Bamboo Cage |
This section of the diary details Wyse’s time at the Lyceum Camp in Soerabaja, on the island of Java. Here he found little solidarity among the prisoners; food was always in short supply, … | Jonathan F. Vance | 30 | 2009 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() Macdonald’s Centralism, 1878–1896 |
Describes the shifting balance of powers between Ottawa and the provinces from 1878-1896. | Ed Whitcomb | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Mainstreaming Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Racist FeminismFrom: Take Back the Fight |
Chapter ten, Mainstreaming Anti-capitalist, Anti-racist Feminism, argues that modern, mainstream feminism needs to be anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti- colonial in order to be relevant, … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Makeover |
The chapter recounts Carr’s drugstore, shoplifting from the Hudson’s Bay, Suz and Gloria, ideas of “whiteness”, Maryanne’s birthday party, and the cruel intentions … | Margaret Macpherson | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() Making Common CauseInequality, Then and Now From: A Good War |
In Chapter 4, Klein argues that through mobilization Canada could be able to confront and bring change to the present-day inequality many people face. Just as the Wartime Efforts during the … | Seth Klein | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() Making MisterAnti-Black Misandry in Alice Walker’s Portrayal of Black Men in The Color Purple From: Bigotry on Broadway |
This chapter critiques The Colour Purple and the Mister trope, arguing that the previous debates surrounding the depiction of Black men in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple have overlooked … | Tommy J. Curry | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Making TracksThe Myth of CPR From: National Dreams |
The myth of the CPR as creator of the country is, in fact, as old as the railway itself, which is not surprising given that it was the railway itself which created the myth. The mundane act of … | Daniel Frances | 39 | 1997 | $1.17 Add |
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From ![]() Malang Prison CampFrom: Bamboo Cage |
This section of the diary covers Wyse’s time in Malang Prison Camp, where the prisoners were mistreated and abused by their captors, and suffered from malnutrition and disease. | Jonathan F. Vance | 24 | 2009 | $2.40 Add |


















