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  • Who Pays for Canada?

    Taxes and Fairness

    Edited by David Tough, Elsbeth Heaman ...
    Canadians can never not argue about taxes. From the Chinese head tax to the Panama Papers, from the National Policy to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, tax grievances always inspire private resentments and public debates. But if resentment and debate persist, the terms of the debate have continually altered and adapted to reflect changing social, economic, and political conditions in ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Civilization

    From Enlightenment Philosophy to Canadian History

    by Elsbeth Heaman ...
    Colonial Canada changed enormously between the 1760s and the 1860s, the Conquest and Confederation, but the idea of civilization seen to guide those transformations changed still more. A cosmopolitan and optimistic theory of history was written into the founding Canadian constitution as a check on state violence, only to be reversed and undone over the next century. Civilization was hegemony, a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Tax, Order, and Good Government

    A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917

    by Elsbeth Heaman ...
    Series Book 240 - Carleton Library Series
    Was Canada’s Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one’s taxes was the sine qua non of entry into political life, but taxes are also the point of politics, which is always about the control of wealth. Modern states have everywhere been born of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 24 No. 2, 2013

    by Jane Freeland, Peter Cook, Andrea McKenzie, Simon Devereaux, Elsbeth Heaman, Derek Murray, John Zucchi, Weiting Guo, Evgeny Efremkin, Nicole C. O’Byrne, Rebecca C. Hughes, Rosanne Waters, Jason Colby ...
    Series Book 24 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Beginning with Columbus’ 1493 report of kings among the “Indians,” European expeditionaries regularly perceived Indigenous leaders as kings during the first century of colonialism in the Americas. English and French narratives of the sixteenth century, following the models of early Spanish and Portuguese accounts, brought to light the existence of Aboriginal monarchs throughout the Americas, from ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—Not Cancelled

    by Mark Milke ...
    From assaults on historical figures such as John A. Macdonald to cancel culture and charges that Canada is a genocidal nation-state, the country that every generation and every immigrant built is now facing routine and corrosive attacks.How did this happen?In this new book, twenty critical thinkers provide answers: we are awash in relentless grievance narratives and utopians who expect Canada’s ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colour-Coded

    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    by Constance Backhouse ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Promise of Schooling

    Education in Canada, 1800-1914

    by Paul Axelrod ...
    Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in this complex and dynamic period. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was schooling in the early nineteenth century? What lay behind the campaign to extend publicly funded ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Union of the Canadas 1841-1857

    The Growth of Canadian Institutions

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    Series Book 10 - The Canadian Centenary Series
    Volume X of the Canadian Centenary SeriesNow available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.J.M.S. Careless looks at how the Act of Union of 1841, which was ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • John Ralston Saul Reimagines Canada (4-Book Bundle)

    Reflections of a Siamese Twin, A Fair Country, The Comeback, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Canada has no greater interpreter and champion than John Ralston Saul, who for years has been challenging our common notions of Canada. These four books examine our history and myths, our relationships and modern reality, and together brilliantly portray a unique and remarkable country.Reflections of a Siamese TwinIn Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye to an examination of Canada ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Discovering Indigenous Lands

    The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies

    by Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, Tracey Lindberg ...
    This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Colonialism and Modern Social Theory

    by Gurminder K. Bhambra, John Holmwood ...
    Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised instead around ideas of nation state and capitalist economy.Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood address ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Canadian Founding

    John Locke and Parliament

    by Janet Ajzenstat ...
    Series Book 44 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
    Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD