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  • Law, Debt, and Merchant Power

    The Civil Courts of Eighteenth-Century Halifax

    Edited by James Muir ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use in private matters was higher than almost all places in the British Empire in the 18th century.In Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, JamesMuir offers an extensive analysis of the civil cases of the time as well as the reasons behind their frequency. Muir’s ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Recent Advances In Aquaculture

    Volume 2

    by James Muir, Ronald Roberts ...
    It is a tribute to the vigour of research and development in aquaculture that we are able, in a relatively short time, to provide readers with a second volume in this series, which has such a diversity of high calibre research and developments to report. That the first volume was so well received has been a source of great satisfaction to the editors and supported their conviction as to the need ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 32 No. 1, 2022

    by Benjamin Bryce, Benjamin Bryce, P. E. Bryden, Sydney Harker, Frederick Glover, Jeffrey L. McNairn, E. A. Heaman, James Muir, Eric H. Reiter, John M. Willis, Ali Altaf Mian0, Sebastian R. Prange1, Wilson Chacko Jacob2 ...
    Series Book 32 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    This past year has been a long one. While my corporal presence has remained, as an uninvited interloper, on the traditional territories of the WSÁNEĆ, Esquimalt, and Lkwungen peoples, my intellectual wanderings feel much less grounded even if they are equally trespasses. We have spent too long in the same places. We have spent too long living with grief and anxiety and uncertainty. We have spent ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Edited by Donald Fyson, George Blaine Baker ...
    The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this geographic area was unified politically for more than half of the period under consideration ... Read more

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  • What Is a Canadian?

    Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses

    Edited by Irvin Studin ...
    Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he calls them “sages” — to tell us what they believe defines us. The people who responded eagerly, to ... Read more

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  • AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets

    AfriCANthology, #1

    by A. Gregory Frankson ...
    Series Book 1 - AfriCANthology
    Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by A. Gregory Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada''s most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as ... Read more

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  • Postcoloniality

    The French Dimension

    by Margaret A. Majumdar ...
    “Postcolonial theory” has become one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Gradually, a gulf has emerged between Anglophone and Francophone thinking in this area. The author ... Read more

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  • René Maran’s «Batouala»

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  • Édouard Glissant

    A Poetics of Resistance

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  • 7 lies of feminism

    by Lucia Canovi ...
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  • Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

    by F. Elizabeth Dahab ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Over the last four decades, the largest French-speaking state in North America, Québec, has nested more than a dozen vibrant modes of French expression created by members of the varied cultural communities that have settled there. Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature examines the works of several first-generation Canadian authors originating from Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, ... Read more

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  • Les Belles Étrangères

    Canadians in Paris

    by Jane Koustas ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
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