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Multiculturalism Within a Bilingual Framework
Language, Race, and Belonging in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
From the time of its inception in Canada, multiculturalism has generated varied reactions, none more starkly than between French and English Canadians. In this groundbreaking new work, Eve Haque examines the Government of Canada's attempt to forge a national policy of unity based on ’multiculturalism...
Civic Symbol
Creating Toronto's New City Hall, 1952-1966
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When Toronto’s New City Hall opened in 1965, it was an iconic modernist symbol for what was still a sedate and conservative city. Its futuristic design by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, composed of two curved towers flanking a clam-shaped council chamber, remains as strange and distinctive today...
by Robert Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
This comprehensive history of Ontario's agricultural development, first published in 1946, is a classic of scholarship and readability. It will appeal not only to agriculturalists and historians but also to anyone interested in life in early Ontario.
Turkish Guest Workers in Germany
Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Turkish Guest Workers in Germany tells the post-war story of Turkish "guest workers," whom West German employers recruited to fill their depleted ranks. Jennifer A. Miller’s unique approach starts in the country of departure rather than the country of arrival and is heavily informed by...
Jews and Magic in Medici Florence
The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare...
Renaissance Comedy
The Italian Masters - Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
A rich and multi-faceted aspect of the Italian Renaissance, the comedy has been largely overlooked as a cultural force during the period. In Renaissance Comedy, editor Donald Beecher corrects this oversight with a collection of eleven comedies representative of the principal styles of writing that...
Canada's Jews
A People's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews emigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered...
Patrician Liberal
The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829-1908
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Patrician Liberal examines the life and career of a neglected figure in Canadian history, Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière. This book provides a detailed account of Joly’s political career as Quebec premier, Cabinet minister in the Laurier government, and lieutenant-governor of British Columbia,...
That Invincible Samson
The Theme of Samson Agonistes in World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
This work examines the more than one hundred analogues of Samson Agonistes, about half of them written earlier than Milton's drama. The author has gone back in every instance to primary sources, and examined all treatments of Milton's theme, in all languages, for their intrinsic interest and merit....
by Bertrand Bronson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960
In this volume, Professor Bronson is primarily interested in the three worlds which appear in Chaucer's poetry: the dream world; the world of the mundane existence and waking observation; and the world of imagined life through reading. A study of these worlds raises questions about the kind of truth...
by Thomas A. Bredehoft
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the nature of poetic authorship in Old English.
Offering a new vision of much of Old English literary...
Directions Home
Approaches to African-Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting...
Literature and Painting In Quebec
From Imagery to Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province. William J. Berg traces recurrent...
Blackening Canada
Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Focusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, particularly Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, and Tessa McWatt, Blackening Canada investigates the manner in which literature can transform conceptions of nation and diaspora. Through a consideration of literary representation, public discourse,...