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  • Digital Visual Art Education

    Making, Learning, and Teaching with Digital Media

    by Robert Sweeny ...
    Series Book 10 - Visual Communication
    This book presents a detailed analysis of digital media as it is currently being used by visual artists. It places these works into a theoretical framework that is useful for research in fields such as Media Studies, Studio Art, and Art and Design Education. The primary goal is to emphasize the multidisciplinary aspects of digital visual art, and to propose a field of study that is unique to this ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Why Did We Choose to Industrialize?

    Montreal, 1819-1849

    by Robert Sweeny ...
    Series Book 28 - Études d’histoire du Québec / Studies on the History of Quebec
    The choice to industrialize has changed the world more than any other decision in human history. And yet the three prevailing explanations - the technical (new energy sources), the Marxist (new social relations), and the neo-liberal (people became more industrious) - are inadequate in making sense of this fundamental change. In mid-nineteenth-century Montreal, as in other early industrializing ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • A Fair Country

    Telling Truths About Canada

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Golden Age of Liberalism

    A Portrait of Roméo LeBlanc

    by Naomi E. S. Griffiths ...
    This book explores the life and times of Roméo LeBlanc, one of Canada's most popular and successful politicians and statesmen. Probably best known as the long-standing fisheries minister in Pierre Trudeau's cabinet from 1974 to 1982, LeBlanc's career spanned the golden era of Liberalism in Canada. He capped his career during the nineties as the country's twenty-fifth governor general.Historian ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Working Families

    Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal

    by Bettina Bradbury ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    Working Families takes the reader onto the streets of Montreal and into the homes of its working-class families during the years that it became a major, industrial city. Between the 1860s and 1890s the expansion of wage labour changed the bases of family survival. It offered new possibilities and created new points of tension within the families of the emerging working class. Here we meet the men, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Liberalism and Hegemony

    Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution

    by Jean-Francois Constant, Michel Ducharme ...
    In 2000, Ian McKay, a highly respected historian at Queen's University, published an article in the Canadian Historical Review entitled "The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History." Written to address a crisis in Canadian history, this detailed, programmatic, and well-argued article had an immediate impact on the field. Proposing that Canadian history should ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Ways of the World

    by David Harvey ...
    David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world's most cited social scientists. Beginning in the early 1970s with his trenchant and still-relevant book Social Justice and the City and through this day, Harvey has written numerous books and dozens of influential essays and articles on topics across issues in politics, culture, economics ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Beheading the Saint

    Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec

    by Geneviève Zubrzycki ...
    Through much of its existence, Québec's neighbors called it the "priest-ridden province." Today, however, Québec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services—a transformation rooted in the "Quiet Revolution" of the 1960s.In Beheading the Saint, Geneviève Zubrzycki studies that transformation through a close investigation of the annual Feast of ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Settling and Unsettling Memories

    Essays in Canadian Public History

    by Nicole Neatby, Peter Hodgins ...
    Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings them up-to-date on the latest advances in the field.With increasing debates surrounding how ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A Bounded Land

    Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada

    by Cole Harris ...
    Canada is a country of bounded spaces – a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a political border to the south. In A Bounded Land, Cole Harris seeks answers to a sweeping question: How was society reorganized – for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike – when Europeans resettled this distinctive land?Through a series of vignettes that focus on people’s experiences on the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • To Know Our Many Selves

    From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies

    by Dirk Hoerder ...
    To Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadian Studies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Professor Dirk Hoerder discusses this comprehensive examination of culture by highlighting its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included both sociological and political angles. Years later, as the study of other ethnicities was added to the cultural story of Canada, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The European Roots of Canadian Identity

    by Philip Resnick ...
    What makes Canada a different kind of society from the United States? In this book-length essay, Philip Resnick argues that, in more ways than one, Canada has been profoundly marked by its European origins. This is most apparent where the European historical underpinnings both of English-speaking and French-speaking Canada are concerned, but it is no less true when one examines Canada's multiple ... Read more

    $27.99 USD