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Uplift

Uplift

Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts
by PearlAnn Reichwein & Karen Wall
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), environmental & land art, canadian, contemporary (1945-), prairie provinces (ab, mb, sk)

In 1933, the Banff School opened in the stunning surroundings of Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. From its beginnings offering a single drama course, it has since grown into the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, a renowned cultural destination. Uplift traces its first four decades as it generated ideals of culture and liberal democr …

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Queen of the Maple Leaf

Queen of the Maple Leaf

Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity
by Patrizia Gentile
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tagged : women's studies, discrimination & race relations, post-confederation (1867-), race & ethnic relations

As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty emerged as a business. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers the codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that beauty pageants exemplified, whether they took place on local or national stages. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, f …

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Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice

Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice

Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
by Sarah Carter
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Many of Canada’s most famous suffragists – from Nellie McClung and Cora Hind to Emily Murphy and Henrietta Muir Edwards – lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, the region that led the way in granting women the right to vote and hold office.

 

In Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice, award-winning author Sarah Carter challenges the my …

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Making the Best of It

Making the Best of It

Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War
edited by Sarah Glassford & Amy J. Shaw
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tagged : world war ii, women's studies, post-confederation (1867-), atlantic provinces (nb, nl, ns, pe)

Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities, but scholars have argued that very little changed. How can these interpretations be reconciled? Making the Best of It examines the ways in which gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders …

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No Place for the State

No Place for the State

The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill
edited by Christopher Dummitt & Christabelle Sethna
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“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau told reporters. He was making the case for the most controversial of his proposed reforms to the Criminal Code, those concerning homosexuality, birth control, and abortion. In No Place for the State, contributors offer complex and often contrasting perspect …

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The Bomb in the Wilderness

The Bomb in the Wilderness

Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada
by John O'Brian
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), historical

What can photographs reveal about Canada’s nuclear footprint? The Bomb in the Wilderness contends that photography is central to how we interpret and remember nuclear activities. The impact and global reach of Canada’s nuclear programs have been felt ever since the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. But do photographs alert viewers to nucle …

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Canada's Mechanized Infantry

Canada's Mechanized Infantry

The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012
by Peter Kasurak
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Canada’s Mechanized Infantry explores the largely ignored development of the infantry in the Canadian Army after the First World War. Although many modern studies of technology and war focus on tanks and armour, soldiers from the Second World War onward have discovered that success really depends on a combination of infantry, armour, and artiller …

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Knowing the Past, Facing the Future

Knowing the Past, Facing the Future

Indigenous Education in Canada
edited by Sheila Carr-Stewart
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tagged : multicultural education, indigenous studies, philosophy & social aspects

In 1867, Canada’s federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The chapters in this collection – some reflective, some piercing, all of them insightful – show that this system s …

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Canada 1919

Canada 1919

A Nation Shaped by War
edited by Tim Cook & J.L. Granatstein
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tagged : canada, post-confederation (1867-), veterans, world war i

With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the concerns of Canadians in the year following the Great War: the treatment of veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the rising farm lobby; the role of labour; the place of children; the influenza pandemic; the country’s international standing; and commemoration of the fallen. Even as t …

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A Great Revolutionary Wave

A Great Revolutionary Wave

Women and the Vote in British Columbia
by Lara Campbell
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), women's studies, women, non-classifiable

British Columbia is often overlooked in the national story of women’s struggle for political equality. This book rights that wrong. A Great Revolutionary Wave follows the propaganda campaigns undertaken by suffrage organizations and traces the role of working-class women in the fight for political equality. It demonstrates the connections between …

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Duty to Dissent

Duty to Dissent

Henri Bourassa and the First World War
by Geoff Keelan
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tagged : post-confederation (1867-), social history, world war i, quebec (qc)

During the First World War, Henri Bourassa – fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec – took centre stage in the national debates on Canada’s participation in the war, its imperial ties to Britain, and Canada’s place in the world. In Duty to Dissent, Geoff Keelan draws upon Bourassa’s voluminous editorials in Le …

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In the Spirit of ’68

In the Spirit of ’68

Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia
by Joel Belliveau
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The 1960s were a victorious decade for francophones in New Brunswick, who witnessed the election of the first Acadian premier and the opening of a French-language university. But in 1968, students took to the streets of Moncton, demanding further concessions.

 

What provoked these students to spark a cultural revolution on par with those overtaking …

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Unmooring the Komagata Maru

Unmooring the Komagata Maru

Charting Colonial Trajectories
edited by Rita Dhamoon; Davina Bhandar; Renisa Mawani & Satwinder Kaur Bains
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In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical accounts by drawing from multiple disciplines and fields to consider the international and colonial dimensions of the voy …

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Canada on the United Nations Security Council

Canada on the United Nations Security Council

A Small Power on a Large Stage
by Adam Chapnick
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As the twentieth century ended, Canada was completing its sixth term on the UN Security Council. A decade later, Ottawa’s attempt to return to the council was dramatically rejected by its global peers, leaving Canadians – and international observers – shocked and disappointed. Canada on the United Nations Security Council tells the story of t …

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Moments of Crisis

Moments of Crisis

Religion and National Identity in Québec
by Ian A. Morrison
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In the past two decades, Québec has been racked by a series of controversies in which the religiosity of migrants and other minorities has been represented as a threat to the province’s once staunchly Catholic, and now resolutely secular, identity. In Moments of Crisis, Ian Morrison locates these controversies and debates within a long history o …

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Moved by the State

Moved by the State

Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada
by Tina Loo
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From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Canadian government relocated people living in rural and urban communities, often against their will, in order to alleviate the all-too-common lack of social services and economic opportunities. Moved by the State offers a completely new interpretation of this undertaking, focusing on the bureaucrats and academics w …

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Fighting with the Empire

Fighting with the Empire

Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867–1947
edited by Steve Marti & William John Pratt
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Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire. War forced Canadians to re-examine their relationship to Britain and to one another. As French Canadians, Indigenous peoples, and those with roots in continental Europe and beyon …

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Capturing Hill 70

Capturing Hill 70

Canada’s Forgotten Battle of the First World War
edited by Douglas E. Delaney & Serge Marc Durflinger
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In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, vital terrain just north of the French town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and in three harrowing days defeated twenty-one German counterattacks. This spectacularly successful but shockingly costly battle was as innovative as Vimy, yet few Canadians have heard of it or of s …

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The Empire on the Western Front

The Empire on the Western Front

The British 62nd and Canadian 4th Divisions in Battle
by Geoffrey Jackson
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tagged : world war i, post-confederation (1867-), 20th century

When Great Britain and its dominions declared war on Germany in August 1914, they were faced with the formidable challenge of transforming masses of untrained citizen-soldiers at home and abroad into competent, coordinated fighting divisions. The Empire on the Western Front focuses on the development of two units, Britain’s 62nd (2nd West Riding) …

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Doing Politics Differently?

Doing Politics Differently?

Women Premiers in Canada’s Provinces and Territories
edited by Sylvia Bashevkin
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Women have reached the highest levels of political office in Canada’s provinces and territories, but what difference has their rise to the top made? In Doing Politics Differently? leading researchers from across the country assess the track records of eleven premiers, including their impact on policies of particular interest to women and their in …

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Reluctant Warriors

Reluctant Warriors

Canadian Conscripts and the Great War
by Patrick M. Dennis
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tagged : canada, post-confederation (1867-), world war ii

During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were often considered slackers for not having volunteered. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on …

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Give and Take

Give and Take

The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy
by Shirley Tillotson
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A book about tax history that’s a real page-turner? Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero who deplored the burden of big government. Most surprising, twentieth-century taxes have made us richer, in political engagement and more. Taxes make the power of the stat …

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Assembling Unity

Assembling Unity

Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
by Sarah A. Nickel
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tagged : indigenous studies, post-confederation (1867-), feminism & feminist theory, british columbia (bc)

Established narratives portray Indigenous unity as emerging solely in response to the political agenda of the settler state. But unity has long shaped the modern Indigenous political movement. With Indigenous perspectives in the foreground, Assembling Unity explores the relationship between global political ideologies and pan-Indigenous politics in …

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Resisting Rights

Resisting Rights

Canada and the International Bill of Rights, 1947–76
by Jennifer Tunnicliffe
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tagged : human rights, international, post-confederation (1867-)

From 1948 to 1966, the United Nations worked to create a common legal standard for human rights protection around the globe. Resisting Rights analyzes the Canadian government’s changing policy toward this endeavour from the 1940s to the 1970s, exploring how developments in international relations and evolving cultural attitudes within Canadian so …

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Made Modern

Made Modern

Science and Technology in Canadian History
edited by Edward Jones-Imhotep & Tina Adcock
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tagged : 20th century, post-confederation (1867-), history

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History draws together leading scholars from a wide range of fields to enrich our understanding of history inside and outside …

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At the Bridge

At the Bridge

James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
by Wendy Wickwire
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At the Bridge chronicles the little-known story of James Teit, a prolific ethnographer who, from 1884 to 1922, worked with and advocated for the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and the northwestern United States. From his base at Spences Bridge, BC, Teit forged a participant-based anthropology that was far ahead of its time. Whereas his cont …

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