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  • Warming Up to the Cold War

    Canada and the United States' Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea

    par Robert Teigrob ...
    When U.S. President Harry Truman asked his allies for military support in the Korean War, Canada's government, led by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, was reluctant. St-Laurent's government was forced to change its position however, when the Canadian populace, conditioned to significant degrees by the powerful influence of American media and culture, demanded a more vigorous response. Warming up ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Four Days in Hitler’s Germany

    Mackenzie King’s Mission to Avert a Second World War

    par Robert Teigrob ...
    In 1937, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King travelled to Nazi Germany in an attempt to prevent a war that, to many observers, seemed inevitable. The men King communed with in Berlin, including Adolf Hitler, assured him of the Nazi regime’s peaceful intentions, and King not only found their pledges sincere, but even hoped for personal friendships with many of the regime's top officials.Four ... En savoir plus

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  • Canada and the United Nations

    Legacies, Limits, Prospects

    Modifié par Colin McCullough, Robert Teigrob ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Rethinking Canada in the World
    A nation of peacekeepers or soldiers? Honest broker, loyal ally, or chore boy for empire? Attempts to define Canada’s past, present, and proper international role have often led to contradiction and incendiary debate. Canada and the United Nations seeks to move beyond simplistic characterizations by allowing evidence, rather than ideology, to drive the inquiry. The result is a pragmatic and ... En savoir plus

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  • Living with War

    Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory

    par Robert Teigrob ...
    Canada and the United States: we think of one as a peaceable kingdom, the other as a warrior nation. But do our expectations about each country’s attitudes to war and peace match the realities?In Living with War, Robert Teigrob examines how war is experienced and remembered on both sides of the 49th parallel. Surveying popular and scholarly histories, films and literature, public memorials, and ... En savoir plus

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  • Canoe Country

    The Making of Canada

    par Roy MacGregor ...
    One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who ... En savoir plus

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  • Smoke Signals

    The Native Takeback of North America's Tobacco Industry

    par Jim Poling, Sr. ...
    When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer. Almost five centuries passed before medical researchers concluded that tobacco is unhealthy and can cause cancer.Smoke Signals follows tobacco from its origins in ... En savoir plus

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  • Great Canadian Battles

    Heroism and Courage Through the Years

    par Edward Humphreys ...
    Wars, raids and rebellions have driven the history of Canada forward from the earliest days of New France, through the two world wars to the present day. Beginning with the Battle of Lake Champlain in 1609 and ending with the second Battle of Panjwaye in 2006 (part of the war in Afghanistan), Great Canadian Battles features conflicts in Canada and abroad.Author Edward Humphreys analyses the ... En savoir plus

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  • Swedes in Canada

    Invisible Immigrants

    par Elinor Barr ...
    Since 1776, more than 100,000 Swedish-speaking immigrants have arrived in Canada from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, and the United States. Elinor Barr’s Swedes in Canada is the definitive history of that immigrant experience. Active in almost every aspect of Canadian life, Swedish individuals and companies are responsible for the CN Tower, ships on the Great Lakes, and log buildings in Riding ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Town of York 1793-1815

    A Collection of Documents of Early Toronto

    Modifié par Edith Firth ...
    Collections series Heritage
    This volume, the fifth of the Ontario Series of the Champlain Society, tells the history of the town of York (Toronto) from the arrival of John Graves Simcoe in 1793 through the war of 1812 until news of the peace reached the town in the spring of 1815. The selection of contemporary documents attempts to show why York was chosen for a settlement in the first place, the kind of community that ... En savoir plus

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  • Ontario Since Confederation

    A Reader

    Modifié par Edgar-Andre Montigny, Lori Chambers ...
    Collections series Heritage
    Ontario Since Confederation contains some of the most recent scholarship in the field of post-Confederation Ontario history. This comprehensive collection, the first of its kind to be published in almost a decade, is intended primarily to introduce students to new areas of debate and new methodologies in Ontario history.The articles range widely over the political, economic, and social history of ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • A Mile of Make-Believe

    A History of the Eaton's Santa Claus Parade

    par Steve Penfold ...
    A Mile of Make Believe examines the unique history of the Santa Claus parade in Canada. This volume focuses on the Eaton’s sponsored parades that occurred in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg as well as the shorter-lived parades in Calgary and Edmonton. There is also a discussion of small town alternatives, organized by civic groups, service clubs, and chambers of commerce.By focusing on the ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Lions or Jellyfish

    Newfoundland-Ottawa Relations since 1957

    par Raymond B. Blake ...
    Asked in 2010 about his pugnacious approach to federal-provincial relations, Newfoundland premier Danny Williams declared “I would rather live one more day as a lion than ten years a jellyfish.” He was only the latest in a long line of Newfoundland premiers who have fought for that province’s interests on the national stage. From Joey Smallwood and the conflict over Term 29 of the Act of Union to ... En savoir plus

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