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Barbary Pirate

The Life and Crimes of John Ward

by Greg Bak ...

In 1603 John Ward led a mass desertion from the English navy, stole a ship and defected to the Ottoman Empire's outpost at Tunis. Allied with the pasha, Ward led Muslim soldiers and sailors in devastating attacks against Christian shipping. Wealthy as a lord, Ward purchased a palatial mansion in Tunis and presided over a scruffy band of English and European renegades.But Ward could not purchase a ... Read more

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In 1603 John Ward led a mass desertion from the English navy, stole a ship and defected to the Ottoman Empire's outpost at Tunis. Allied with the pasha, Ward led Muslim soldiers and sailors in devastating attacks against Christian shipping. Wealthy as a lord, Ward purchased a palatial mansion in Tunis and presided over a scruffy band of English and European renegades.But Ward could not purchase a
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The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving

Edited by Greg Bak, Marianne Rostgaard ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Archives
The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving explores the roots and strengths of Nordic digital archiving and proposes new directions to guide digital archivists in addressing the challenges posed by ever-changing digital technologies and the datafication of information and records.Digitization and born-digital records promise efficient and cost-effective solutions to everything from preservation of data ... Read more

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The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving explores the roots and strengths of Nordic digital archiving and proposes new directions to guide digital archivists in addressing the challenges posed by ever-changing digital technologies and the datafication of information and records.Digitization and born-digital records promise efficient and cost-effective solutions to everything from preservation of data
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Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 34 No. 1, 2024

by Benjamin Bryce, Nicole Neatby, Donna Trembinski, Robert Englebert, Steven High, Greg Bak, Kenton Storey, Alexandra Giancarlo, Janice Forsyth, Elizabeth McKenzie0, Ian Mosby*1, Enrico Moretto2, Laura Ishiguro*3, Melanie K. Ng*4, Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra5, Laura Madokoro6 ...

Series Book 34 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
Steven High’s presidential address, delivered at York University in May 2023, grapples with many of the issues facing our discipline and what it means to be a historian in the present. Despite the extreme political polarization of our time, he expressed admiration at the courage of so many historians who continue to speak truth to power, even at considerable risk to themselves. He also addresses ... Read more

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Steven High’s presidential address, delivered at York University in May 2023, grapples with many of the issues facing our discipline and what it means to be a historian in the present. Despite the extreme political polarization of our time, he expressed admiration at the courage of so many historians who continue to speak truth to power, even at considerable risk to themselves. He also addresses
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What Is a Canadian?

Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses

Edited by Irvin Studin ...

Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he calls them “sages” — to tell us what they believe defines us. The people who responded eagerly, to ... Read more

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Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he calls them “sages” — to tell us what they believe defines us. The people who responded eagerly, to
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The Empire Within

Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal

by Sean Mills ...

Series Book 23 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonization to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and ... Read more

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In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonization to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and
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Claire L’Heureux-Dubé

A Life

by Constance Backhouse ...

Series series Law and Society
Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court. The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the first from Quebec, she was known as “the great dissenter” on the bench, making judgments that were applauded and criticized in turn.L’Heureux-Dubé’s innovative legal approach was anchored in the social, ... Read more

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Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court. The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the first from Quebec, she was known as “the great dissenter” on the bench, making judgments that were applauded and criticized in turn.L’Heureux-Dubé’s innovative legal approach was anchored in the social,
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Vulnerable

The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

by Jane Philpott, Katherine Fierlbeck, Lorian Hardcastle, Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, Jeffery Hewitt0, Michelle Giroux1, David Robitaille2, Amir Attaran3, Adam R. Houston4, Bryan Thomas5, Carissima Mathen6, Alexandra Flynn7, Mel Cappe8, Grégoire Webber9, Tim Caulfield0, Jeffrey Simpson1, Paul Daly2, Marie-France Fortin3, Jennifer A. Quaid4, Teresa Scassa, Full Professor; Canada Research Chair5, Kelly Bronson6, Jason Millar7, Vardit Ravitsky8, Daniel Weinstock9, Terry Skolnik0, Professor Martha Jackman1, Delphine Nakache2, Yves Le Bouthillier3, Martine Lagacé4, Linda Garcia5, Leilani Farha6, Kaitlin Schwan7, Adelina Iftene8, Jamie Chai Yun Liew9, Y. Y. Brandon Chen0, Anne Levesque1, Kwame McKenzie2, Jennifer A. Chandler3, Mona Gupta4, Yasmin Khaliq5, Simon Hatcher6, Olivia Lee7, Tess Sheldon8, Ravi Malhotra9, Pat Armstrong0, Hugh Armstrong1, Ivy Bourgeault2, Katherine Lippel3, Louise Bélanger-Hardy4, Professor Vanessa Gruben, Associate Professor; Vice-Dean (Academic)5, Sarah Berger Richardson6, Anis Chowdhury7, Jomo Kwame Sundaram8, Professor Sam Halabi, Professor; Director Centre for Transformational Health Law9, Kumanan Wilson0, Chidi Oguamanam1, Steven J. Hoffman2, Patrick Fafard3, Céline Castets-Renard4, Eleonore Fournier-Tombs5, E. Richard Gold6, Jeremy de Beer7, Matthew Herder8, Jason W. Nickerson9 ...

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such ... Read more

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The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such
... Read more
Hard Lessons

The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

Edited by Dieter K. Buse, Peter Suschnigg, Mercedes Steedman ...

This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred ... Read more

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This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred
... Read more
University Governance in Canada

Navigating Complexity

by Julia Eastman, Claude Trottier, Olivier Bégin-Caouette, Glen Jones ...

Universities play essential roles in Canadian society. The internal and external governance of these complex institutions faces ever-evolving challenges within a rapidly shifting international context.Written by a national team of scholars, University Governance in Canada asks how institutional decisions are made and who is behind these choices. By exploring the historical evolution and regional ... Read more

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Universities play essential roles in Canadian society. The internal and external governance of these complex institutions faces ever-evolving challenges within a rapidly shifting international context.Written by a national team of scholars, University Governance in Canada asks how institutional decisions are made and who is behind these choices. By exploring the historical evolution and regional
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Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work

A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York

by Nancy L. Green, Andrew Gordon, Daniel James, Alexander Keyssar ...

Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring sectors left in the service-centered cities of today. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work tells the story of urban ... Read more

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Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring sectors left in the service-centered cities of today. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work tells the story of urban
... Read more
1968 in Canada

A Year and Its Legacies

Edited by Michael K. Hawes, Andrew C. Holman, Christopher Kirkey ...

Series series Mercury Series
The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians.It was a year when decisions and actions, both in Canada and outside its borders, were thick and contentious, and whose effects were momentous and far-reaching. It saw the rise of Trudeaumania and the birth ... Read more

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The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians.It was a year when decisions and actions, both in Canada and outside its borders, were thick and contentious, and whose effects were momentous and far-reaching. It saw the rise of Trudeaumania and the birth
... Read more
Canada’s Rights Revolution

Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82

by Dominique Clément ...

In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clément explores the history of four organizations that emerged in ... Read more

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In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clément explores the history of four organizations that emerged in
... Read more

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