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Peace after the Sun Goes Down

Peace after the Sun Goes Down

From: Disarming Conflict

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Peace and Fire

Peace and Fire

From: Three Funerals for my Father

This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. It gives insight into the changes and challenges faced by the family under the communist government. 3 $0.30 Add
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Peace and Scorched Earth

Peace and Scorched Earth

From: Canada in the World

The Cold War – Israel, Suez and Canadian Mythology – The Dominion and the Rising Sun – The Scorched Earth of Korea – The Heroes of Dien Bien Phu – Saving Somoza: … 49 $4.90 Add
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Pearl Harbour, a Surprise Attack?
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Pearl Harbour, a Surprise Attack?

From: Myths of Modern History

This chapter examines the myth surrounding that “day of infamy” when America presumably crashed into the war as a result of the Japanese “surprise attack” at Pearl … 14 $1.40 Add
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PELLATT THE PROMOTER

PELLATT THE PROMOTER

From: Casa Loma

1880 – 1910. Looks at Pellatt as a finance capitalist, electric power for the people and his road from prosperity to wealth ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Pen-friendships

Pen-friendships

From: The Wheel of Things

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People to People, Nation to Nation

People to People, Nation to Nation

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

Text of the opening section of a summary of findings and recommendations of a 1996 report by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples established after confrontations between Mohawk warriors … ; ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Perfect Tranquility

Perfect Tranquility

From: Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick

1780s. Looks at underlying issues with the loyalists thinking of themselves not as Canadian but as American Colonials, looks at the pathway to thinking of themselves as loyal to England and Canada 29 $2.90 Add
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Performing Indians

Performing Indians

From: The Imaginary Indian

Movies, shows and theatre invariably situate Indians in the past, usually on the western frontier. The result is that Indians in the movies seem marginal to modern life. Sympathetic regret or … 45 $4.50 Add
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Performing Indians

Performing Indians

From: The Imaginary Indian

Movies, shows and theatre invariably situate Indians in the past, usually on the western frontier. The result is that Indians in the movies seem marginal to modern life. Sympathetic regret or … 45 $4.50 Add
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Persecution, War, Alliance and Terrorism

Persecution, War, Alliance and Terrorism

From: We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition

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Persecution, War, Alliance and Terrorism

Persecution, War, Alliance and Terrorism

From: We Were Not The Savages

Chapter 4 focuses on the persecution and war between England and the Mi’kmaq, and campaigns of terrorism. 24 $2.40 Add
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Persistence of Vision: Memory, Migration, and Citizenship - Free Trade or the Failure of Cross-Culturality?

Persistence of Vision: Memory, Migration, and Citizenship – Free Trade or the Failure of Cross-Culturality?

From: From Subjects to Citizens

Persistence of vision is all about the eye, the way it follows a film, remembers an image, holds on to it, until the next one appears to replace it, so that we are never conscious of the stutter … 5 $0.50 Add
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Persuasion and the Art of Leadership

Persuasion and the Art of Leadership

From: History's People

In this chapter, MacMillan traces Franklin D. Roosevelt’s shift from neutrality to active support of Allied nations between 1936 and 1941, and compares him to William Lyon Mackenzie King. 77 $7.70 Add
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Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sands

Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sands

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against … 11 $1.10 Add
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Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands

Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 1 Angela Carter uses petro-capitalism as a lens to capture the scale and complexity of the tar sands industry, focusing on our economic, political, and environmental costs of fossil … 13 $1.30 Add