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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Economic and Political CrisisFrom: Big Business and Hitler |
Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the period of 1929-1932 and the economic and political crises that led more and more of Germany’s elite to support Hitler. | Jacques R. Pauwels | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
From Enter The CabotsSECTION ONE - From ships’ captains to captains of industry From: A Distinct Alien Race |
This chapter tells the story of the renowned Cabot family of Massachusetts and their role in the textile industry in North America. | David Vermette | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! European Greed and the Mi’kmaw Resolve to FightFrom: We Were Not The Savages |
Chapter 3 explores the topics of European greed and the Mi’kmaw resolve to resist and fight invasion, the decline of the Mi’kmaq, early European settlement, and European’s … | Daniel N. Paul | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
From NEW! ExcessHow a Culture of Alcohol Gave Birth to the Binge From: Bottoms Up |
Chapter 3 explores the birth and evolution of alcohol culture with particular focus placed on the idea of drinking to excess, and how that behaviour has been regarded in Newfoundland throughout … | Sheilah Roberts Lukins | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
From Expanding the GardenThe Mulroney Years From: The Tangled Garden |
A first‑hand account of the development of Canadian culture policy by the Brian Mulroney’s Conservative government (1984 to 1993). Focuses specifically on initiatives by former … | Richard Stursberg | 38 | 2019 | $3.80 Add |
From Feminism in the Digital EraFrom: Take Back the Fight |
The third chapter, Feminism in the Digital Era, looks at how digital technologies have shaped feminism, via having new ways to organize. It also considers the weaknesses of such platforms in the … | Nora Loreto | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! Fired or DeadFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Three focuses on Willcock’s time working in Swanberg’s cook house, Greasy Erickson, getting “Up the hill”, becoming a “Whistle punk”, the risks of logging, and the Schnarr girl’s … | Kathryn Willcock | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! First StrikesFrom: Class Action |
In First Strikes, Hanson explores the growing experience of white-collar unionism and the rise of class consciousness that was a unifying force in their labour relations following the activism of … | Andy Hanson | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
From From Beaver to PondA History From: Unicorn in the Woods |
This chapter links the entrepreneurial activities of Flood and Newton with another businessman from New Brunswick: Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. It also touches on the historic and current … | Gordon Pitts | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
From From Home to SchoolAt Home; The Transition From: Resistance and Renewal |
This chapter narrates the disruption that the residential schools posed in the lives of the Natives. The author juxtapositions the life at school versus that life before school for the Native … | Celia Haig-Brown | 29 | 1988 | $0.58 Add |
From From the HipChapter 2 From: Decolonize Hipsters |
In From the Hip, Pierrot explores the etymology of the word ‘hip’ and how it has been used over the centuries, before delving deeper into the larger history of white hegemonic culture … | Grégory Pierrot | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
From From the Potlatch to Residential SchoolsFrom: Canada in the World |
The War of 1885 – Métis Resistance – Assimilation, Extermination, Cultural Genocide – The Residential School System – Policing the Colonized – Colonialism and … | Tyler A. Shipley | 36 | 2020 | $3.60 Add |
From NEW! Genocide’s Legacy on the Land and Dominant Economic ModelFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Profiting from Genocide: The World Bank and IDB’s Bloody History in Guatemala – The Genocidal Chixoy Dam Project – Testimonio: Sebastian Iboy Osorio … | Cyril Mychalejko; Nathan Einbinder | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
From Girls’ Sport Run by GirlsFrom: Immodest and Sensational |
The 1920s had brought significant change to Canadian women’s sport with the growth of teams and leagues, especially those sponsored by industrial concerns, the beginning of international … | M. Ann Hall | 14 | 2008 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! Guatemala: They Flattened Our Milpa |
Chapter 4 examines Guatemala during the mid-20th century, as various governments sought to “modernize” Mayan traditional milpa agriculture, resulting in a genocide directed at Mayan … | Jim Handy | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
From Here Come the Bad Guys |
After the departure of the Jewish internees in the summer of 1941, Camp B held a mix of Germans, German-Canadians, as well as other Canadians and men from all over Europe. If the tragedy of the … | Andrew Theobald | 50 | 2019 | $5.00 Add |