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New World Coming

New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness is a collection of the most innovative essays from a major international conference of the same name, held at Queen’s University ...

Canada’s Rights Revolution

In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in
Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights
movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. ...

Farmers “Making Good”

By (author) Lyle Dick
Categories: Social and cultural history
Series: Parks and Heritage

In this newly revised edition of the widely praised original, published in 1989, Lyle Dick revisits the Abernethy district of Saskatchewan and his microhistorical analysis of the development of this prairie ...

Guarding the Gates

By (author) David Goutor
Categories: Social and cultural history

From the 1870s until the Great Depression, immigration was often the question of the hour in Canada. Politicians, the media, and an array of interest groups viewed it as essential to nation building, ...

The Manly Modern

The Manly Modern, the first major book on the history of masculinity in Canada, traces the history of what happened when men’s supposed modernity became one of their defining features. Through a series ...

Social Policy and Practice in Canada

By (author) Alvin Finkel
Categories: Social and cultural history

Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations’ control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents ...

Winnipeg 1912

By (author) Jim Blanchard
Categories: History of the Americas

At the beginning of the last century, no city on the continent was growing faster or was more aggressive than Winnipeg. No year in the city’s history epitomized this energy more that 1912, when Winnipeg ...

Incorrigible

By (author) Velma Demerson
Categories: Social and cultural history
Series: Life Writing

On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that ...

A Short History of Progress

Each time history repeats itself, so it’s said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all ...