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The Royal Vic: The Story of Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital, 1894-1994 by Neville Terry 9780773511705 [USED COPY]
RRP: $190.40Booksplease Price: $20.42Neville Terry traces the history of the hospital from its founding by Lord Strathcona (Donald Smith) and Lord Mount Stephen (George Stephen) to its present position as a world-renowned health care... -
The Changing Face of War: Learning from History by Allan Douglas English 9780773517233 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $25.42This volume is a collection of texts on lessons learned from history. One of the biggest problems facing military history leaders is how to deal with situations that they never confronted before... -
The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies by Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca 9780822342977 [USED COPY]
RRP: $223.72Booksplease Price: $73.97Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of... -
Toronto Architect Edmund Burke: Redefining Canadian Architecture by Angela Carr 9780773512177 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $15.18Burke's career spanned a key period in Canadian architecture as the profession transcended its colonial beginnings to reach maturity with Canadian-born practitioners who converted both American... -
Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta by Edward Bell 9780773511682 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $17.97For years scholars have maintained that Social Credit was a protest on the part of small-scale farmers, who fought against their disadvantaged position in advanced capitalism by rejecting central... -
The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada by Peter Neary 9780773516977 [USED COPY]
RRP: $69.00Booksplease Price: $22.63Desmond Morton sets the scene with a survey of the experiences of veterans of the Great War, who found much to fault in Ottawa's policies; Jeff Keshen looks at the very different experience of... -
Pilgrims in Lotus Land: Conservative Protestantism in British Columbia, 1917-1981: Volume 18 by Robert K. Burkinshaw 9780773512863 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $23.80Burkinshaw traces the growth of conservative Protestantism in British Columbia from its clashes with liberal Protestants in the early twentieth century; through the post-World War II years when a... -
Ex Uno Plures: Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada, 1867-1896 by Garth Stevenson 9780773509863 [USED COPY]
RRP: $257.04Booksplease Price: $11.85Beginning with brief accounts of the origins of Confederation and the economic, social, and political characteristics of late nineteenth-century Canada, Stevenson recounts the major issues that... -
Tyendinaga Tales by Rona Rustige 9780773506503 [USED COPY]
RRP: $76.16Booksplease Price: $6.81From the introduction: "Folk-tales are the verbal account of the world view and way of life of a people. They hold a special importance when the people lack a formal system of writing. For a... -
Des pouvoirs et des hommes: L'administration municipale de Montreal, 1900-1950: Volume 25 by Michele Dagenais 9780773518896 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $38.08Basing her work on extensive study of Montreal's city records, Dagenais gives us a view of city government from inside city hall, showing how the city's institutions really functioned. From 1900 to... -
Canadian Policy toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union: Volume 4 by Jamie Glazov 9780773522763 [USED COPY]
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $12.38He details how the St Laurent government backed the shrewd calculations of the Department of External Affairs and emphasized the wisdom of the containment-accommodation approach, an approach that,... -
Carabins ou activistes?: L'idealism et la radicalisation de la pensee etudiante a l'Universite de Montreal au temps du Duplessisme: Volume 10 by Nicole Neatby 9780773518346 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $36.70Studies of young activists have tended to focus on the period of the 1960s. Neatby shows us that the youth of the sixties were not the only ones to distinguish themselves by their social activism... -
Joseph Howe, Volume I: Volume I, Conservative Reformer, 1804-1848 by Murray Beck 9780773504455 [USED COPY]
RRP: $78.54Booksplease Price: $16.11For almost fifty years Joseph Howe was at or near the centre of public affairs, first in Nova Scotia and later in imperial relations and in the earliest years of the new Dominion. He was his... -
In Whose Interest?: Quebec's Caisses Populaires, 1900-1945 by Ronald Rudin 9780773507593 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $39.27While the caisses, begun by Alphonse Desjardins in 1900, are usually seen as committed exclusively to noble ideas such as the betterment of the poor, Ronald Rudin takes a more realistic approach by... -
Newfoundland in the North Atlantic World, 1929-1949 by Peter Neary 9780773506688 [USED COPY]
RRP: $85.68Booksplease Price: $18.04Neary draws material from both public and private sources in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and Newfoundland. Following a brief summary of major developments in Newfoundland before... -
Charles Baillairge: Architect and Engineer by Christina Cameron 9780773506381 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $4.21During his career as an architect, he designed major public buildings such as the Quebec Music Hall, Laval University, Sainte-Marie de Beauce church, and Dufferin Terrace, and was supervising... -
Vie et mort du couple en Nouvelle-France: Quebec et Louisbourg au XVIIIe siecle: Volume 19 by Josette Brun 9780773530683 [USED COPY]
RRP: $83.30Booksplease Price: $15.71An exploration of the experience of married life and widowhood in eighteenth-century Quebec City and LouisbourgAn exploration of the experience of married life and widowhood in eighteenth-century... -
Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945: Volume 36 by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773523081 [USED COPY]
RRP: $76.16Booksplease Price: $7.62Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative interpretation of government policy toward Ukrainian... -
Families in Transition: Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe: Volume 11 by Peter Gossage 9780773518476 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $42.55Gossage uses a family-reconstitution method, drawing on local parish registers and manuscript-census schedules, to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in this context of social... -
Joseph Howe, Volume II: Volume II, The Briton Becomes Canadian, 1848-1873 by Murray Beck 9780773503885 [USED COPY]
RRP: $235.62Booksplease Price: $40.82Professor Beck shows how, in Churchillian fashion, the final resolution was preceded by a series of setbacks and disappointments in Howe's public life. These were the result of a bold colonization... -
John William Dawson: Faith, Hope, and Science by Susan Sheets-Pyenson 9780773513686 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $23.80Dawson was born and raised in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where the many sandstone and coal formations provided fertile ground for his first scientific explorations, which culminated in the publication of... -
The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia by Ian McKay 9780773511798 [USED COPY]
RRP: $235.62Booksplease Price: $26.54The use and abuse of the idea of the "Simple Life" in tourism promotion and the massive dissemination of folk images are analysed in depth. McKay examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was... -
Grillparzer's Libussa: The Tragedy of Separation by William C. Reeve 9780773518315 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $15.80Reeve not only offers a close textual analysis of the drama from the aspect of separation but shows how Libussa and its author fit into the development of the history of ideas in nineteenth-century... -
William Notman's Studio: The Canadian Picture by Stanley Triggs 9780773509672 [USED COPY]
RRP: $180.88Booksplease Price: $23.66The Canadian photographer William Notman and his empire of photographic studios, initiated in 1856, are the focus of this study by Stanley Triggs. Over a period of 78 years, more than 400,000... -
To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932 by Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago 9780822342076 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $48.79To Rise in Darkness offers a new perspective on a defining moment in modern Central American history. In January 1932 thousands of indigenous and ladino (non-Indian) rural laborers, provoked by... -
Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor 9780822338864 [USED COPY]
RRP: $257.04Booksplease Price: $78.90An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire, home, and childhood-nests, food, beds, birds, fairies, bits of string, ribbon, goodnight kisses, appetites sated and denied-Reading... -
The Battle of Gettysburg: 150 Things to Know by Sandy Allison 9780811712811 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $2.98This concise introduction to the Gettysburg campaign relates fascinating facts about all aspects of the battle and its participants. Revised and expanded for the 150th anniversary of the battle, it... -
Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left by Cynthia A. Young 9780822336792 [USED COPY]
RRP: $223.72Booksplease Price: $53.98Soul Power is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls "U.S. Third World Leftists," activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles... -
Canada: The State of the Federation 1996 by Patrick C. Fafard 9780889115873 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $15.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Peopling the North American City: Montreal, 1840-1900: Volume 222 by Sherry H. Olson 9780773538306 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $54.76Benefiting from Montreal's remarkable archival records, Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton use an ingenious sampling of twelve surnames to track the comings and goings, births, deaths, and marriages... -
The Forgotten Labrador: Kegashka to Blanc-Sablon by Cleophas Belvin 9780773531512 [USED COPY]
RRP: $99.96Booksplease Price: $33.84The Forgotten Labrador recounts the history of a remarkable area of Canada - the Quebec part of the Labrador coast that extends eastward from Kegashka to Blanc Sablon. Cleophas Belvin describes the... -
The Victoria Bridge: The Vital Link by Stanley Triggs 9780773509641 [USED COPY]
RRP: $161.84Booksplease Price: $27.11With the opening of the Victoria Bridge in 1860, a year-round transportation route was finally established to the Atlantic Ocean at Portland, Maine. The bridge also provided connections, via the... -
Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799 by Allan Everett Marble 9780773509887 [USED COPY]
RRP: $247.52Booksplease Price: $29.23Beginning with an account of the settlement of Halifax, Marble documents the care taken by the Lords of Trade and Plantations to provide proper food and health care during the settlers' passage... -
The Development of Elites in Acadian New Brunswick, 1861-1881: Volume 124 by Sheila M. Andrew 9780773515086 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $2.62Challenging accepted notions that elite dominance defined Acadian ideology, Sheila Andrew attributes the development of the Acadian elites not to the "Acadian renaissance" or an Acadian nationalist... -
Critical Years in Immigration: Canada and Australia Compared: Volume 2 by Freda Hawkins 9780773508521 [USED COPY]
RRP: $88.06Booksplease Price: $11.31With the new introduction, Freda Hawkins brings Critical Years in Immigration up to date by discussing the directions taken by the Canadian and Australian governments since 1984. She also clarifies... -
Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, Industrial Relations, and the General Strike by David J. Bercuson 9780773507944 [USED COPY]
RRP: $73.78Booksplease Price: $18.54Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and most complete general strike in North American history? Bercuson answers this question by examining the development of union labour and the impact of... -
Nations are Built of Babies: Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940 by Cynthia R. Comacchio 9780773509917 [USED COPY]
RRP: $235.62Booksplease Price: $38.08"Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and... -
How to Be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789 by Patrick Weil 9780822343486 [USED COPY]
RRP: $254.66Booksplease Price: $68.66How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France's foremost historians. First published in France in 2002, it is... -
Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez 9780822337775 [USED COPY]
RRP: $214.20Booksplease Price: $46.10Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced "modernity" during the lengthy "Order and Progress" dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz... -
Cultural Agency in the Americas by Doris Sommer 9780822334873 [USED COPY]
RRP: $238.00Booksplease Price: $25.87"Cultural agency" refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social...