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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! The French Revolution From: Myths of Modern History View	The book begins with the myth of the French Revolution, the “original catastrophe” (Urkatastrofe, to use a term coined by German historians) of modern history, and the wars that …	Jacques R. Pauwels	34	2022	$3.40 Add
From The Frontier War — 1756 From: The Fall of New France View	Separates the Frontier War of 1756 into Preparations for the campaign, Oswego (Montcalm’s first victory), Native Warfare, and reorganization in the English Colonies	Ronald J. Dale	7	2004	$0.70 Add
From The Fundamental Freedoms From: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms View	Chapter 3 focuses on the section of the Charter that encompasses the “fundamental freedoms”: freedom of religion, expression, assembly, and association. The Supreme Court’s …	Ian Greene	71	2014	$7.10 Add
From The Future of Work From: Basic Income For Canadians View	This chapter looks at our relationship with work as individuals and as a society and how basic income will fundamentally change that relationship.	Evelyn L. Forget	16	2020	$1.60 Add
From The Futures of Grassroots Activism Key Themes to Keep in Mind From: Quiet No More View	Chapter six provides this book with the conclusion that brings together the insights of previous chapters. Above all, I argue that activists are faced with two important tasks: first, to embrace …	Joel D. Harden	25	2013	$2.50 Add
From The Gang Mother From: Gang Life View	Monica, a forty-fiveyear- old lesbian gang mother. Now clean after too many years of injecting morphine and cocaine, she takes in young gang members and cares for them. She was terrorized by a …	Mark Totten	19	2014	$1.90 Add
From The Garden Invaded The Harper Years From: The Tangled Garden View	Developments in key Canadian creative industries (eg. television, film, newspapers) during Stephen Harper’s Conservative era (2006 to 2015); how the digital media produced a drastic decline …	Richard Stursberg	37	2019	$3.70 Add
From The Ghost of Дід Хом’як and the Krakivski Visti From: Family Ties View	This chapter examines Chrystia Freeland’s role as Canada’s minister of Foreign Affairs and her focus on Ukrainian relations.	Peter McFarlane	9	2024	$0.90 Add
From The Giant Tamed From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View	Explores the slow, uphill battle to shake the solid hegemony of Canadian employers in industrial life in the two decades between the wars and then the breakthrough that took place at the end of …	Craig Heron	27	2012	$2.70 Add
From The Globalization of Education The Implications for Canada From: Canada after Harper View	Larry Kuehn writes of the need to save our public education system from the corroding effects of privatization, underfunding, international testing, charter schools, and other related education …	Larry Kuehn	18	2015	$1.80 Add
From The Government Role in Creating Wealth From: Share the Wealth! View	Readings in part 3 of this title explore the disticition between income inequality and wealth inequaltiy and methods for building shared wealth for Canadians. This chapter explore the role of the …	Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin	6	2021	$0.60 Add
From The government’s spin, part one From: Sold Down the Yangtze View	How did the Harper Government spin the FIPA? It would take another book to count all the ways. I discuss four examples in the next few chapters. The first example is the prime minister’s …	Gus Van Harten	11	2015	$1.10 Add
From The government’s spin, part three From: Sold Down the Yangtze View	My last example of the government’s misleading responses to concerns about the FIPA comes from the legal challenge brought by the Hupacasath First Nation.	Gus Van Harten	11	2015	$1.10 Add
From The government’s spin, part two From: Sold Down the Yangtze View	Despite the Conservatives’ efforts to limit debate, other politicians were able to use the process at the House of Commons trade committee, and elsewhere in Parliament, to put important …	Gus Van Harten	9	2015	$0.90 Add
From Where Have the Leaders Gone? From: The Reconciliation Manifesto View	Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines Section 35 of the constitution of Canada and leadership in Indigenous communities with specific examples from British Columbia.	Arthur Manuel	4	2017	$0.40 Add
From NEW! The Great Imperialist War From: Myths of Modern History View	In this chapter the author argues against the cliché of conventional historiography that the First World War was a war for democracy, as well as the notion that this war was not a product of …	Jacques R. Pauwels	25	2022	$2.50 Add