History

Showing 561–576 of 3516 results

Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Chapter 1 The Craftworkers' Challenge From: The Canadian Labour Movement View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter traces the rise of working-class organizing in mid nineteenth-century Canada in the context of Canada’s First Industrial Revolution, moving from informal protests to narrowly …	Charles Smith; Craig Heron	27	2020	$2.70 Add
From NEW! Chapter 1 Deep Roots From: Mining Country View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the earliest examples of mining in Canada. These include examples of metalwork and extraction practiced by pre-columbian indigenous communities as well as the first …	Arn Keeling; John Sandlos	24	2021	$2.40 Add
From Chapter 1 Early Days From: New Brunswick and the Navy View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter explores New Brunswick’s early history, and the importance of the sea and ships in this history. It discusses early European settlements, tensions and battles on both land and …	Glenn Leonard; Marc Milner	17	2010	$1.70 Add
From Chapter 1 From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugation From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter explores the evolution of labour legislation, highlighting the role these laws played in limiting workers’ rights and reinforcing class hierarchies. It also analyzes collective …	Harry Glasbeek	18	2024	$1.80 Add
From Chapter 1 The Labyrinth From: The Invisibles View Breakwater Books	In this chapter, Candow explores the complex bureaucratic, financial, and military apparatus that governed the British Empire’s operations overseas.	James E. Candow	9	2019	$0.90 Add
From NEW! Chapter 1 The Place of an Election in the Comprehensive Political Law Cycle From: Anatomy of an Election View Irwin Law Inc.	A list of the elements of a policy cycle and highlighting where an election fits into the cylce.	Gregory Tardi	2	2020	$0.20 Add
From NEW! Chapter 1: Arrival PART I: RED HORIZONS From: Dinner on Mars View ECW Press	In Chapter 1 the authors imagine what a Martian city would look like in the year 2080. Discussing the chosen location of the city, water access, resources and extraction, food, and how it would …	Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman	7	2022	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Chapter 1: Capitalist Crisis and Expansion, 1890-1914 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter recounts how the Depression of the 1890s was followed in the first decades of the twentieth century by enormous growth in mining, railroads and industry.	Bryan D. Palmer	6	2025	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Chapter 1: Querencia From: Searching for Serafim View Arsenal Pulp Press	This chapter recounts the early life and background of Serafim Fortes. Included is an image of a handwritten note signed by Serafim.	Ruby Smith Diaz	5	2025	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Chapter 1: Radical Indigenous Economic Exclusion From: The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power View New Society Publishers	This chapter explores how the process of “othering”, inherent in the policies of the Indian Act, has reinforced systemic inequality and exclusion of Indigenous peoples in Canada.	Carol Anne Hilton	8	2025	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 1 : The Box Part One: An Art History Mystery From: The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case View Goose Lane Editions	The author details the start of his research by finding a box with papers, notebooks, poems, and essay once belonging to one of the main subjects and artists of the book, William Firth MacGregor.	John S. Dellandrea	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From Chapter 10 From: Northern Wildflower View Fernwood Publishing		Catherine Lafferty	12	2018	$1.20 Add
From Chapter 10 Killing the Wittigo From: Legacy View ECW Press	In the final chapter, the author discusses a variety of initiatives across Canada that Indigenous communities are undertaking to facilitate healing.	Suzanne Methot	57	2019	$5.70 Add
From The Scrambled Paradise From: Lost Feast View ECW Press	In this chapter Newman describes her time travelling through Hawaii and the biodiversity she witnessed there. Newman describes how after centuries of plant and animal invasions, both purposefully …	Lenore Newman	24	2019	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Chapter 10 Extrinsic Influences on the 43rd Federal General Election From: Anatomy of an Election View Irwin Law Inc.	A brief overview of global and provincial events that influenced electoral politics in 2019.	Gregory Tardi	5	2020	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Chapter 10: Ballrooms of Mars PART IV: RED DAWN From: Dinner on Mars View ECW Press	Chapter 10 offers a reflection on what a night out would look like for both the authors in the Martian city in 2080. Discussion recreation, work life, pubs, music and dancing, first and second …	Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman	10	2022	$1.00 Add