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Canada's Leading Metropolis (1896-1914)

Canada’s Leading Metropolis (1896-1914)

From: The History of Montréal

This chapter explores the city’s population growth, social and ethnic divisions, and the nature of city life/the social landscape. Between the end of the nineteenth century and the start of … 16 $1.60 Add
Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy

Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy

Canada’s Long Fight against Democracy is a sweeping overview of Canadian-backed coups since 1950. It documents Canada’s contribution to the ouster of over 20 elected governments from … ; 216 View
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Canada’s New Carscape:

Canada’s New Carscape:

Town and Country Remade

From: Car Nation

1912-1930. Analyzes the spread of the car in popularity and the freedom it represented to Canadians as you could now travel across the country, the changes to cities because of the car, road … 17 $1.70 Add
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Canada’s New Carscape: Town and Country Remade
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Canada’s New Carscape: Town and Country Remade

From: Car Nation Canada

In this chapter, Anastakis describes the impact of autos and Canadian transport networks, building new highways and road systems. He examines how urban development patterns modified to … 14 $1.40 Add
Canada’s State Police

Canada’s State Police

150 years of the RCMP

Stripping away the myth of the RCMP, historian Greg Marquis offers an account of 150 years of a state police force acting on behalf of the wealthy and powerful. From its start policing Indigenous … 304 View
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Canada's War on Terror

Canada’s War on Terror

From: Canada in the World

Afghanistan: Canada’s Longest War – “They Don’t Deserve Our Help” – “What the Afghans Need Is Colonizing” – Canada in the War on Terror … 54 $5.40 Add
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Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association

Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association

From: The Lost Massey Lectures

In this 1980 lecture, Jacobs examines Norway’s peaceful separation from Sweden in 1905 as a precedent for the Quebec sovereignty debate. She traces how Montreal reshaped Quebec into a … 75 $7.50 Add
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Canadian Citizenship and Multiculturalism

Canadian Citizenship and Multiculturalism

From: From Subjects to Citizens

Canadian multiculturalism has been seen in the 1990s as undermining Canadian unity and that the federal government was brought to modify the main orientations of its multiculturalism policy. … 12 $1.20 Add
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Canadian Culture and Canadian Identity

Canadian Culture and Canadian Identity

From: From Subjects to Citizens

Culture, whether we think in terms of the visual arts or literature or music, may have its roots in the community but today it finds its audience outside that community – via television, … 8 $0.80 Add
Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

The impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life

Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign … 256 View
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Canadian Dimension and the Great Canadian Health Care Debate

Canadian Dimension and the Great Canadian Health Care Debate

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

The take-away message from half a century of CD articles on both medicare and health is that, at the end of the day, the story of health is largely the story of status, equality and social … 27 $2.70 Add
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Canadian Dimension and the “Other” Ontario

Canadian Dimension and the “Other” Ontario

Radical Reportage through Four Transformative Decades

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

This chapter identifies the key episodes in CD’s coverage of Ontario from 1970 to 2012. 12 $1.20 Add
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Canadian Dimension Covers British Columbia

Canadian Dimension Covers British Columbia

Power, Promises and Pulp Fiction

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

a close reading of fifty years of CD reporting on British Columbia suggests that now is a good time to interrogate what, as working people, our interests really are, and how, in relation to the … 12 $1.20 Add
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Canadian Diplomatic Efforts to Sell the Tar Sands

Canadian Diplomatic Efforts to Sell the Tar Sands

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 4 Yves Engler discusses Canadian diplomacy in the decades of its rapidly growing tar sands and its push for carbon-heavy oil globally. It discusses topics including international … 9 $0.90 Add
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Canadian Motordom in Depression and War

Canadian Motordom in Depression and War

From: Car Nation

1930-1945. Looks at the downturn for the auto industry during the Great Depression, the unionization of the industry, and the effect of WWII on the auto industry. Specifically uses the life of … 17 $1.70 Add
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Canadian Motordom in  Depression and War
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Canadian Motordom in Depression and War

From: Car Nation Canada

In this chapter, Anastakis covers the 1930s and the Second World War period. Topics include the auto and the 1930s Depression, war production by auto manufacturers, union organizing in the war … 14 $1.40 Add