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  • Domestic Goods

    par Joy Parr ...
    Collections series HSBC Bank Canada Papers on Asia
    Visions of life in the 1950s often spring from the United States: supermarkets, freeways, huge gleaming cars, bright new appliances, automated households. Historian Joy Parr looks beyond the generalizations about the indulgence of this era to find a specifically Canadian consumer culture. Focusing on the records left by consumer groups and manufacturers, and relying on interviews and letters from ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Labouring Children

    British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869–1924

    par Joy Parr ...
    Collections series Routledge Library Editions: Immigration and Migration
    Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and Canadian rural communities. Between 1868 and 1925 eighty thousand British boys and girls, mostly under fourteen, were apprenticed as agricultural labourers and domestic servants in rural Canada. A surprising feature is the involvement of the ... En savoir plus

    $63.20 CAD

  • Moving Natures

    Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History

    par Jay Young, Thomas Peace, Jim Clifford, Judy Burns, Ken Cruikshank, Andrew Watson, Merle Massie, Daniel Macfarlane0, Tor H. Oiamo1, Don Lafreniere2, Joy Parr3, J. I. Little4, Jessica Dunkin5, Elizabeth L. Jewett6, Elsa Lam7, Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert8 ...
    Collections Livre 5 - Canadian History and Environment
    Mobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals some of the distinctive ways in which Canadians have come to terms with the country's climate ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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    The Man Who Made Us

    par Richard J. Gwyn ...
    The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family to Kingston, Ontario, to his days as a young, rising lawyer, to his tragedy-ridden ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    par Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... En savoir plus

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  • The Palace Letters

    The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam

    par Professor Jenny Hocking ...
    A political betrayal.A constitutional crisis.A hidden correspondence.Gough Whitlam was a progressive prime minister whose reign from 1972 proved tumultuous after 23 years of conservative government in Australia. After a second election victory in May 1974, when a hostile Senate refused to vote on his 1975 budget, the political deadlock that ensued culminated in Whitlam’s unexpected and deeply ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Lost Prime Ministers

    Macdonald's Successors Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper

    par Michael Hill ...
    After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known — rose to power and fell in just five years.From 1891 to 1896, between John A. Macdonald’s and Wilfrid Laurier’s tenures, four lesser-known men took on the mantle of leadership. Tory prime ministers John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell, and Charles Tupper headed the government of Canada in ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Persons Case

    The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood

    par Robert J. Sharpe, Patricia I. McMahon ...
    On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's upper house and the idea that the meaning of the constitution could not change with time. The Persons ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Very Canadian Coup

    The Rise and Demise of Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell, 1894–1896

    par Ted Glenn ...
    A fresh take on the Manitoba schools question and the Conservative Coup that toppled Canada’s fifth prime minister.When Mackenzie Bowell became Canada’s fifth prime minister in December 1894, everyone — including Bowell — expected the job would involve nothing more than keeping the wheels on the Conservative wagon until a spring election.Plans for a quiet caretakership were dashed in January 1895 ... En savoir plus

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  • In Search of R.B. Bennett

    par P.B. Waite ...
    Writing a life of Bennett, who reportedly destroyed his correspondence every seven years, presents challenges for the biographer. Yet, as P.B. Waite shows, Bennett's lasting contributions to Canada are beyond doubt. He describes Bennett's bold initiatives, including his attempt to introduce unemployment insurance and a minimum wage, as well as his founding of the Bank of Canada and the Canadian ... En savoir plus

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  • Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

    par Jane Humphries ...
    Collections series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Sir John A.

    An Anecdotal Life of Sir John A. Macdonald

    Modifié par Cynthia M. Smith, Jack McLeod ...
    This is the man behind the legend. Lively and revealing anecdotes about Sir John A.s political and parliamentary life are set against stories of his private joys and sorrows. Stories of patronage, of political campaigns, of loyal supporters and bitter opponents take readers through many of the major events of nineteenth-century Canada, from the building of the cpr to the Riel Rebellions, only to ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD