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Powering Up Canada

R. W. Sandwell is associate professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

With growing concerns about ...

So Far and Yet so Close

A comparative study of frontier cattle ranching in two societies on opposite ends of the globe. It is also an environmental history that at the same time centres on both the natural and frontier environments. ...

Autonomous State

By (author) Dimitry Anastakis
Categories: History of the Americas

Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country’s most important economic sector, in the post-war period. In this engrossing book, Dimitry Anastakis ...

Agricultural History

Gregory P. Marchildon holds a Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic History at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina. Previous to this, he taught ...

Taking the Air

In Taking the Air, Paul Kopas takes a comprehensive approach to the policy aspects of the management of parks and protected areas. He scrutinizes the policy-making process for national parks since the ...

Power Struggles

Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec examines the evolution of new agreements between First Nations and Inuit and the hydro corporations in Quebec and Manitoba, ...

Alberta's Oil Patch

By (author) Tim le Riche
Categories: History of the Americas
Series: 20th Century Series

From the pioneering days of the province’s oil industry at Turner Valley to the evolution of the massive oilsands extraction system at the Athabasca tarsands, business reporter Tim LeRiche writes an ...

Profiting the Crown

By (author) Matthew J. Bellamy
Categories: Political economy

Matthew J. Bellamy is lecturer in economics and history, Carleton University.

Power and Restructuring

This is a book about power in small places, its perceptions and realities; where these conflict and where they come together. Based on research conducted on Canada’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the ...

Last Word

Media coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada has emerged as a crucial factor not only for judges and journalists but also for the public. It’s the media, after all, that decide which court rulings ...