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Aboriginal Music in Contemporary
Echoes and Exchanges
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis music in Canada is dynamic and diverse, reflecting continuities with earlier traditions and innovative approaches to creating new musical sounds. Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada narrates a story of resistance and renewal, struggle and success, as indigenous...
by Elie Cohen-Gewerc, Robert A. Stebbins
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
What does it mean to be an individual and how can an individual exist within society? Serious Leisure and Individuality examines the circumstances in the modern world that make for individual distinctiveness, and the role of these conditions in personal and social life. "The individual," said Friedrich...
Muscle on Wheels
Louise Armaindo and the High-Wheel Racers of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
The majestic high-wheel bicycle, with its spider wheels and rubber tires, emerged in the mid-1870s as the standard bicycle. A common misconception is that, bound by Victorian dress and decorum, women were unable to ride it, only taking up cycling in the 1880s with the advent of the chain-driven safety...
Multicultural Variations
Social Incorporation in Europe and North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Contrary to mid-twentieth century predictions, ethnic pluralism has increased dramatically in North America and significantly in Europe. Neither the post 9/11 emphasis on international border security nor anti-immigration and anti-multiculturalism movements have affected the fifty year trend of increasing...
Secessionism
Identity, Interest, and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Using innovative methods to analyze both advanced democracies and developing countries, Jason Sorens shows how central governments can alleviate or increase ethnic minority demands for regional autonomy. He argues that when countries treat secession as negotiable and provide legal paths to pursuing...
Our Rural Selves
Memory and the Visual in Canadian Childhoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented. Challenging the stereotypes and myths that surround the idea of rurality, Our Rural Selves interrogates and represents individual and collective memories of childhood in rural landscapes and small...
Imagining Holiness
Classic Hasidic Tales in Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In Imagining Holiness Justin Lewis offers a radical reappraisal of how we think of Hasidic tales, calling into question received notions of authenticity. He focuses his study on the neglected Hasidic literature of the early twentieth century - primarily the work of Israel Berger and Abraham Hayim...
Tenants in Time
Family Strategies, Land, and Liberalism in Upper Canada, 1799-1871
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
The freeholding pioneer is a powerful image in settlement history - Tenants in Time tells a different story. Tenancy, though relegated to the periphery by the liberal idealization of ownership, was a common and vital part of the economy and society. Against a background of international land agitation...
Discrepant Parallels
Cultural Implications of the Canada-US Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The 49th parallel has long held a symbolic importance to Canadian cultural nationalists as a strong, though permeable, border. But in contemporary Canadian culture, the border has multiple meanings, and imbalances of cultural power occur both across the Canada-US border as well as within Canada. Discrepant...
Reading between the Borderlines
Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Is Superman Canadian? Who decides, and what is at stake in such a question? How is the Underground Railroad commemorated differently in Canada and the United States, and can those differences be bridged? How can we acknowledge properly the Canadian labour behind Hollywood filmmaking, and what would...
The Dawn of Canada's Century
Hidden Histories
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Sir Wilfrid Laurier famously claimed that the twentieth century would be Canada's century and, indeed, its opening decade witnessed remarkable territorial, demographic, and social transformations. Yet the lives of those who lived and laboured to fashion these changes remain largely hidden from historical...
Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action
Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? Médecins Sans Frontières sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that spanned four years and more than ten countries. MSF interviewed close to 7,000 people...
Making Sense out of Meaning
An Essay in Lexical Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In his exploration of word meaning, Walter Hirtle examines an important and controversial topic in lexical semantics: polysemy, the capacity of words to manifest a range of different meanings when employed in different contexts. Building on the work of French linguist Gustave Guillaume, Making Sense...
by G. Bruce Doern, John Coleman, Barry E. Prentice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Given its geographical expanse, Canada has always faced long-term transport policy issues and challenges. Canadian Multi-Modal Transport Policy and Governance explains how and why Canadian transportation policy and related governance changed from the Pierre Trudeau era through the Chretien, Martin,...