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  • Dream Car

    Malcolm Bricklin’s Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity

    by Dimitry Anastakis ...
    Dream Car tells the story of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s fantastical 1970s-era Safety Vehicle-1 (SV1), audaciously launched during a tumultuous breakpoint in postwar history. The tale of the sexy-yet-safe SV1 reveals the influence of automobiles on ideas about the future, technology, entrepreneurship, risk, safety, showmanship, politics, sex, gender, business, and the state, as well as the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • L.R. “Red” Wilson, A Canadian Journey

    Lessons in Life, Leadership, and Legacy

    by Dimitry Anastakis ...
    L.R. “Red” Wilson’s impact has been felt across generations of Canadians businesspeople and students. This biography honours a man who followed his interests wherever they led, sought out new challenges whenever he could, and above all, always worked to leave every place he stopped along better than he found it.Tracing the contours of Mr. Wilson’s fascinating journey, renowned Canadian business ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Death in the Peaceable Kingdom

    Canadian History since 1867 through Murder, Execution, Assassination, and Suicide

    by Dimitry Anastakis ...
    Death in the Peaceable Kingdom is an intelligent, innovative response to the incorrect assumption that Canadian history is dry and uninspiring. Using the "hooks" of murder, execution, assassination, and suicide, Dimitry Anastakis introduces readers to the full scope of post-Confederation Canadian history.Beginning with the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Anastakis recounts the deaths of ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Sixties: Passion Politics and Style

    by Dimitry Anastakis ...
    The Sixties takes a multidisciplinary approach that includes history architecture art political science and journalism. Contributors examine a range of eclectic issues - from the intersection of Joyce Wieland's artwork with Pierre Trudeau's nationalism to the debate over the changing skylines of Toronto and Montreal to de Gaulle's famous 1967 "Vive le Québec libre!" speech - to provide a ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Auto Pact

    Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971

    by Dimitry Anastakis ...
    The 1965 Canada-United States Automotive Trade agreement fundamentally reshaped relations between the automotive business and the state in both countries and represented a significant step toward the creation of an integrated North American economy. Breaking from previous conceptions of the agreement as solely a product of intergovernmental negotiation, Dimitry Anastakis's Auto Pact argues that ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Autonomous State

    The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade

    by Dimitry Anastakis ...
    Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country’s most important economic sector, in the post-war period. In this engrossing book, Dimitry Anastakis chronicles the industry’s evolution from the 1973 OPEC embargo to the 1989 Canada–US Free Trade Agreement and looks at its effects on public policy, diplomacy, business enterprise, workers, consumers ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Sixties

    Passion, Politics, and Style

    by Dimitry Anastakis ...
    Those who didn't live through the Sixties wonder what the fuss was all about, while many of those who were there have wrestled with how to describe and define the period. While the ultimate meaning of the Sixties remains elusive, there is no doubt that they had an immense effect on Canadians - culturally, politically, and economically. The Sixties takes a multidisciplinary approach that includes ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Framing Canadian Federalism

    by Dimitry Anastakis, Penny Bryden ...
    Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the history of Canada's legal, political, and social evolution. Covering themes that include the Supreme Court of Canada, changing policies towards human rights, First Nations, as well as the legendary battles between Mitchell Hepburn and W.L. Mackenzie King, this ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Smart Globalization

    The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience

    by Andrew Smith, Dimitry Anastakis ...
    Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and the return to more interventionist industrial policies. Both sides claim to have the facts on their side.Inspired by the work of economists Ha-Joon Chang and Dani Rodrik, editors Andrew Smith and ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Ontario since Confederation

    A Reader, Second Edition

    Edited by Lori Chambers, Edgar-Andre Montigny, James Onusko, Dimitry Anastakis ...
    In the more than two decades since the publication of Ontario Since Confederation: A Reader, Ontario, Canada, North America, and the world have experienced a whirlwind of profound changes. This new edition brings together leading scholars to present a new and expansive view of Ontario’s social, political, and economic history.Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The North American Auto Industry since NAFTA

    Edited by Greig Mordue, Dimitry Anastakis ...
    Series series Themes in Business and Society
    The auto sector is North America’s most iconic of industries. Since the North American Free Trade Agreement came into existence in 1994, the sector has undergone tremendous change: escalating concerns around climate change, advances in electric and automated vehicles, deindustrialization/reindustrialization, and the rise of low-cost locations as hubs for manufacturing.The North American Auto ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Montreal's Square Mile

    The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole

    Edited by Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland, Don Nerbas ...
    In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal’s Square Mile chronicles the history of the neighbourhood, from its origins to its decline, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Spanning the interconnected worlds of family ... Read more

    $28.79 USD