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Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship: Toward a New Nexus of Moral Contracts

Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship: Toward a New Nexus of Moral Contracts

From: From Subjects to Citizens

Australian and Canadian citizenships are emergent idiosyncratic realities. These complex institutions are the result of the on-going interaction between values and environment. The sort of social … 31 $3.10 Add
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Grade School

Grade School

From: South End Boy

1930s and 1940s Halifax. Elementary school 11 $1.10 Add
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Great Again

Great Again

On Political Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

This chapter examines nostalgia in modern democracies, where generalized nostalgia binds individuals into a mass movement through its vagueness. The dissonance between nostlagia and how politics … 23 $2.30 Add
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Great Moments with Mr. Hamilton

Great Moments with Mr. Hamilton

From: Bigotry on Broadway

The author critiques Disney and Hamilton, asserting that the sugarcoated treatment of American history that the musical presents is perfectly in sync with the Disney ethos. This chapter explores … 35 $3.50 Add
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Great Wars and National Nativity

Great Wars and National Nativity

From: Canada in the World

Canada at the Fin de Siècle – Canadian Imperialism – The South African War – Imperialism and the Great War – Canada’s Great War – Vimyism 31 $3.10 Add
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Great White Hope

Great White Hope

The Myth of North

From: National Dreams

There have been writers, politicians, intellectuals who believed that it was its northernness which made Canada distinct. The "cult of the North" gained coherent expression for the … 46 $1.84 Add
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Green Cathedral
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Green Cathedral

From: In Praise of Retreat

In this reading the author recounts their experience of leaving the city to a retreat in the forest and the positive psychological effect that the experience had on them. 22 $2.20 Add
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Green Gables enshrined

Green Gables enshrined

From: The Wheel of Things

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Growing Up on Walton Street

Growing Up on Walton Street

From: The Ward

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Guatemala: They Flattened Our Milpa
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Guatemala: They Flattened Our Milpa

From: Tiny Engines of Abundance

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 … 23 $2.30 Add
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Route of Heros

Route of Heros

From: Any Other Way

Keith Cole recalls his experiences as a sex worker in Torontos boystown. 3 $0.30 Add
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Guilt by Associations

Guilt by Associations

From: The Einstein File

This chapter further explores the FBI’s interest in Einstein and his political beliefs and activism, and particularly his little-known support for civil rights and outspoken opposition to … 29 $2.90 Add
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Gulf Coast Resistance and the Southern Leg of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Gulf Coast Resistance and the Southern Leg of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 17 the authors examine the scope and breadth of resistance across the Gulf Region of the United States, including the Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, Tar Sands Blockade, … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Gunboat Ed
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Gunboat Ed

From: The Fire and the Ashes

In this chapter, Jackson discusses his time with the federal NDP caucus, then led by Ed Broadbent. 6 $0.60 Add
Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68

Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68

The British Navy's show of force at the time of Confederation

This book describes British gunboat diplomacy practiced on the Great lakes in the aftermath of the US Civil War when Canada was negotiating Confederation and under Fenian attack. Cheryl MacDonald … 192 View
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Guns and Feathers

Guns and Feathers

From: The Imaginary Indian

Non-Natives have a long history of romanticizing Indians, discovering in their character and culture many fi ne qualities we think are lacking in our own. From the Noble Savage of years ago to … 28 $2.80 Add