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  • A Short History of the State in Canada

    by E. A. Heaman ...
    Series series Themes in Canadian History
    A concise, elegant survey of a complex aspect of Canadian history, A Short History of the State in Canada examines the theory and reality of governance within Canada’s distinctive political heritage: a combination of Indigenous, French, and British traditions, American statism and anti-statism, and diverse, practical experiments and experiences.E.A. Heaman takes the reader through the development ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Tax, Order, and Good Government

    A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917

    by Elsbeth Heaman ...
    Series Book 240 - Carleton Library Series
    Was Canada’s Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one’s taxes was the sine qua non of entry into political life, but taxes are also the point of politics, which is always about the control of wealth. Modern states have everywhere been born of ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Civilization

    From Enlightenment Philosophy to Canadian History

    by Elsbeth Heaman ...
    Colonial Canada changed enormously between the 1760s and the 1860s, the Conquest and Confederation, but the idea of civilization seen to guide those transformations changed still more. A cosmopolitan and optimistic theory of history was written into the founding Canadian constitution as a check on state violence, only to be reversed and undone over the next century. Civilization was hegemony, a ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Who Pays for Canada?

    Taxes and Fairness

    Edited by David Tough, Elsbeth Heaman ...
    Canadians can never not argue about taxes. From the Chinese head tax to the Panama Papers, from the National Policy to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, tax grievances always inspire private resentments and public debates. But if resentment and debate persist, the terms of the debate have continually altered and adapted to reflect changing social, economic, and political conditions in ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss

    Figuring the Social

    Edited by Alison Li, Shelley McKellar, Elsbeth A. Heaman ...
    A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osler, and Harvey Cushing. The essays in this volume, each written by former doctoral students of Bliss, ... Read more

    $76.39 USD

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  • True Stories from Nova Scotia's Past

    by Dianne Marshall ...
    CBC Radio's Information Morning history columnist Dianne Marshall is well known for the lively and surprising true stories she tells about Nova Scotia's past. Now the best of them have been gathered together in this enjoyable book.The stories cover 250 years of Nova Scotia history, often featuring people who don't make it into conventional history books. These incredible accounts include: the plot ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Aftershock

    The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey

    by Janet Maybee ...
    One of the greatest maritime disasters in history is reexamined in light of new evidence in this revealing chronicle of the 1917 Halifax explosion.On December 6, 1917, harbor pilot Francis Mackey was guiding the SS Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, into Bedford Basin to join a convoy across the Atlantic when it was rammed by the Belgian Relief vessel SS Imo. The resulting massive explosion ... Read more

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  • White Slaves of Maquinna: John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka

    John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka

    by John Jewitt ...
    John R. Jewitt's story of being captured and enslaved by Maquinna, the great chief of the Mowachaht people, is both an adventure tale of survival and an unusual perspective on the First Nations of the northwest coast of Vancouver Island.On March 22, 1803, while anchored in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Boston was attacked by a group of Mowachaht warriors. Twenty-five of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Reconciliation Manifesto

    Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

    by Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, Naomi Klein ...
    In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous peoples.The Reconciliation Manifesto documents how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Who Killed Janet Smith?

    by Ed Starkins ...
    Who Killed Janet Smith? examines one of the most infamous and still unsolved murder cases in Canadian history: the 1924 murder of twenty-two-year-old Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith. Originally published in 1984, and out of print for over a decade, this tale of intrigue, racism, privilege, and corruption in high places is a true-crime recreation that reads like a complex thriller. We are pleased to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Cowherd in Paradise

    From China to Canada

    by May Q. Wong ...
    In 2006, the Prime Minister apologized to the Chinese people for the legislated discrimination created by Canada’s head tax laws in the first half of the twentieth century, acknowledging the far-reaching and long-term consequences it has had on their families. A Cowherd in Paradise is the story of one such family.The book chronicles the remarkable lives of Wong Guey Dang (1902–1983) and Jiang Tew ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Women of the Klondike

    The 15Th Anniversary Edition

    by Frances Backhouse ...
    Discover the compelling stories of the brave and adventurous women whose lives were forever changed by the Klondike gold rush. When the steamship Portland docked in Seattle's harbour in 1897, a group of scruffy men and women walked down the gangplank. There was nothing remarkable about them, except they were dragging sacks stuffed with half a million dollars? worth of gold. Among them was Ethel ... Read more

    $7.19 USD