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Canada's Jews

A People's Journey

by Gerald Tulchinsky
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...
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That Invincible Samson

The Theme of Samson Agonistes in World Literature

by Watson Kirkconnell
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....
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by Bertrand Bronson
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...
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by Thomas A. Bredehoft
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...
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Directions Home

Approaches to African-Canadian Literature

by George Elliott Clarke
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...
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Blackening Canada

Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism

by Paul Barrett
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,...
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by E.J. Pratt Library
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017

This edition of E.J. Pratt’s letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. Because of Pratt’s role in the making of Canadian culture between and after the World Wars, his correspondence highlights key moments in our cultural history and provides a view of the enterprise from its very...
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by Barbara Alfano
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013

The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works –...
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Indians in the Fur Trade

Their Roles as Trappers, Hunters, and Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870

by Arthur Ray
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017

First published in 1974, this best-selling book was lauded by Choice as 'an important, ground-breaking study of the Assiniboine and western Cree Indians who inhabited southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan' and 'essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Canadian west before 1870.' Indians...
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Donald Creighton

A Life in History

by Donald A. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902–1979) was English Canada’s first great historian. The author of eleven books, including The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence and a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald,...
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Fairy-Tale Science

Monstrous Generation in the Takes of Straparola and Basile

by Suzanne Magnanini
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008

Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as 'fairy tales,' these stories had many guises and...
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The Measure of Democracy

Polling, Market Research, and Public Life, 1930-1945

by Daniel Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1999

Politicians, government officials, and public relations officers lean heavily on polling when fashioning public policy. Proponents say this is for the best, arguing that surveys bring the views of citizens closer to civic officials. Critics decry polling's promotion of sycophantic politicians who...
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Inside the Law

Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective

by Carol Wilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996

Law firms are important economic institutions in this country: they collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in fees, they order the affairs of businesses and of many government agencies, and their members include some of the most influential Canadians. Some firms have a history stretching...
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The Empire of the St. Lawrence

A Study in Commerce and Politics

by Donald Creighton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002

Originally published in 1937 as "The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760-1850" and re-issued in its present form in 1956, Donald Creighton's study of the St. Lawrence became an essential text in Canadian history courses. This, his first book, helped establish Creighton as the foremost...
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