Histoire sociale et culturelle

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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 ...

An Unauthorized Biography of the World

Par (auteur) Michael Riordon
Catégories: Mémoires

An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official ...

America

Par (auteur) Denis Vaugeois
Traduit par Jane Brierley
Catégories: Histoires des Amériques

“We the people of the United States”—so began the American Constitution of 1787. Within a few years, this young country, made up mainly of eastern seaboard states, suddenly became part of a continent. ...

Booze: A Distilled History

Par (auteur) Craig Heron
Catégories: Histoire sociale et culturelle

Booze is a history of Canadian drink and drinking from the European conquest to the present. Filled with photographs, ads, and cartoons, this multifaceted story features the liquor traffic, alcohol in ...

At Home with the Bella Coola Indians

Between 1922 and 1924, the young Canadian anthropologist T. F. McIlwraith spent eleven months in the isolated community of Bella Coola, British Columbia, living among the people of the Nuxalk First Nation. ...

Through the Eyes of the Eagle

Traduit par David Rome
Édité par Pierre Anctil
Catégories: Histoire sociale et culturelle

The output of the Yiddish press published in Montreal, starting in 1907, sheds a bright light on the mass migration of East European Jews to the city at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the ...

In Order to Live Untroubled

Par (auteur) Renee Fossett
Catégories: Histoires des Amériques

Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ...

The Education of a Canadian

Gordon Skilling writes candidly of each way station in this personal odyssey: the idealism of his student years at the University of Toronto and Oxford; his presence in Czechoslovakia on the eve of the ...

Harold Innis in the New Century

The book is divided into three sections: “Reflections on Innis” provides a historical reassessment of Innis, “Gaps and Silences” considers the limitations of both Innis’s thought and his interpreters, ...