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  • Four Unruly Women

    Stories of Incarceration and Resistance from Canada’s Most Notorious Prison

    by Ted McCoy ...
    Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary, Canada’s most notorious prison.In this shocking and heartbreaking book, Ted McCoy tell these women’s stories of incarceration and resistance in poignant detail. The four women served sentences at different ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Hard Time

    Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada

    by Ted McCoy ...
    Prisons have always existed in a climate of crisis. The penitentiary emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth century as an enlightened alternative to brute punishment, one that would focus on rehabilitation and the inculcation of mainstream social values. Central to this goal was physical labour. The penitentiary was constructed according to a plan that would harness the energies of the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Canada's Legal Pasts

    Looking Foreward, Looking Back

    by Nick Austin, Eric H. Reiter, Christopher Shorey, Angela Fernandez, Catharine MacMillan, Alexandra Havrylyshyn, Jean-Phillipe Garneau, Shelley A. M. Gavigan, Dominique Clement, Louis A. Knafla ...
    Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Dissenting Traditions

    Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History

    Edited by Sean Carleton, Ted McCoy, Julia Smith ...
    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Palmer’s work reveals a life dedicated to dissent and the difficult task of imagining alternatives by understanding the past in all of its ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 27 No. 1, 2016

    by Ian Wereley, Frank Abbott, ISABELLE BOUCHARD, Isabel Campbell, Matthew Hayday, VICTORIA JACKSON, FRANK LEONARD, Ted McCoy, Carolyn Podruchny ...
    Series Book 27 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    This paper examines popular tales involving the Devil in the rural Québec parish of St-Joseph-de-Beauce, 70 kilometers southeast of Québec City. A microhistorical examination of the interaction between popular beliefs and clerical discourse in the parish over an extended period of time offers valuable insights into the functional details of the relationship between parishioners and curés that ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    A Brief Introduction

    by Bruce Caldwell ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek’s 1944 warning against the dangers of government control, continues to influence politics more than seventy years after it was turned down by three American publishers and finally published by the University of Chicago Press. A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, the definitive edition of The Road to Serfdom ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • 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

    $12.99 CAD

  • Marx

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. Presenting Marx as a philosopher primarily concerned with human ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance

    Imagining Multilingualism

    by Tomson Highway ...
    Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    “Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only...” From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of the world, playwright, pianist, polyglot, storyteller, and irreverent disciple of the Trickster, Tomson Highway rides roughshod through the languages and communities that have shaped him. Cree, Dene, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • First World War

    Still No End in Sight

    by Professor Frank Furedi ...
    Through exploring the battle of ideas set in motion in August 1914, First World War: Still No End In Sight provides a framework for understanding the changing focus of political conflict from ideology to culture.That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914. This book ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Abortion

    The Legal Truth, the Religious Truth, the Philosophical Truth (Moral/Ethical)

    by Stéphane Bordeau ...
    This book tells the truth about the controversial subject called ABORTION**; a** source of endless conflicts in most countries.You will be surprised to realize that the Catholic Church does not consider Abortion as a homicide, nor even as a crime, but only as a sin (for its members only).You will learn how a simple medical procedure to terminate an unacceptable pregnancy has become the basis for ... Read more

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  • Anarchism

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Ruth Kinna ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Would you want a world without government?In this clear and penetrating study, Ruth Kinna goes directly to the heart of this controversial ideology, explaining the influences that have shaped anarchism and the different tactics and strategies that have been used by anarchists throughout history to achieve their ends. Kinna covers themes both historical and acutely contemporary, including: Could ... Read more

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