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A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902â1979) was English Canadaâs 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, Creighton wrote history as if it âhad happened,â he said, âthe day before yesterday.â And as a public intellectual, he advised the prime minister of Canada, the premier of Ontario, and â at least on one occasion â the British government.Yet he was, as Donald Wright shows, also profoundly out of step with his times. As the nation was re-imagined along bilingual and later multicultural lines in the 1960s and 1970s, Creighton defended a British definition of Canada at the same time as he began to fear that he would be remembered only âas a pessimist, a bigot, and a violent Tory partisan.âThrough his virtuoso research into Creightonâs own voluminous papers, Wright paints a sensitive portrait of a brilliant but difficult man. Ultimately, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.
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9781442649477 | Univ of Toronto Pr, August 6, 2015, cover price $90.00
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9781442626829 | Univ of Toronto Pr, August 5, 2015, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902â1979) was English Canadaâs first great historian.
Product Description: Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis. Harold Innis and the North turns the axis North-South by examining Innis's intense and abiding interest in the North, and providing new perspectives on this seminal figure in Canadian political economy and communication studies...read more
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9780773541641 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, August 26, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis.
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9780773541672 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, August 26, 2013, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis.
Product Description: In 1973, the Supreme Court's historic Calder decision on the Nisga'a community's title suit in British Columbia launched the Native rights litigation era in Canada. Legal claims have raised questions with significant historical implications, such as, "What treaty rights have survived in various parts of Canada? What is the scope of Aboriginal title? Who are the Métis, where do they live, and what is the nature of their culture and their rights?" Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in the mid-1980s...read more
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9780773539525 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 17, 2011, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in the mid-1980s.
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9780773540804 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 1, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In 1973, the Supreme Court's historic Calder decision on the Nisga'a community's title suit in British Columbia launched the Native rights litigation era in Canada.
Product Description: Fighting For Afghanistan is the third book in the Rogue Historian trilogy, taking Maloneyâs story into the conflict in 2006, when the Taliban-led insurgency threatened to overwhelm the U.S.-led coalition in southern Afghanistan...read more
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9781591145097 | Naval Inst Pr, September 15, 2011, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Fighting For Afghanistan is the third book in the Rogue Historian trilogy, taking Maloneyâs story into the conflict in 2006, when the Taliban-led insurgency threatened to overwhelm the U.
Product Description: One of Canadaâs best-known and most-honoured biographers turns to the raw material of his own life in Writing History. A university professor, prolific scholar, public intellectual, and frank critic of the world he has known, Michael Bliss draws on extensive personal diaries to describe a life that has taken him from small-town Ontario in the 1950s to international recognition for his books in Canadian and medical history...read more
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9781554889532 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, September 12, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: One of Canadaâs best-known and most-honoured biographers turns to the raw material of his own life in Writing History.
Product Description: The first ever biography of one of Canadaâs best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author.From his northern childhood on, it was clear that Pierre Berton (1920â2004) was different from his peers. Over the course of his eighty-four years, he would become the most famous Canadian media figure of his time, in newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and books â sometimes all at once...read more
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9780771057571 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, October 14, 2008, cover price $37.99 | About this edition: The first ever biography of one of Canadaâs best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author.
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9780771057564 | Reprint edition (Emblem Editions, September 7, 2010), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The first ever biography of one of Canadaâs best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author.
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9781894856621 | Fifth House, October 30, 2006, cover price $9.95
Product Description: William H. McNeill's seminal book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963) received the National Book Award in 1964 and was later named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library...read more
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9780813123455 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, February 1, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: William H.
Product Description: Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. He wrote a number of important books and one, Socialism: A Critical Analysis, was highly praised by Vladimir Lenin...read more
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9780802009326 | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.
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9780802079022 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: Oscar Skelton (1878-1941) was a prominent early-twentieth century scholar who became a civil servant and political advisor to prime ministers Mackenzie King and R.
Product Description: Among the Lions is Harold Horwood's second volume of memoirs, following 1997's A Walk in the Dreamtime, which laid down the foundations of the literary life that continues here. From the writer's space out of which grew the acclaimed The Foxes of Beachy Cove, through Newfoundland's trip through the sixties, to the founding of Writer's Union of Canada, Horwood illuminates a period when the literary cultures of Newfoundland and Canada were just beginning to flourish...read more
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9781894294256 | Creative Book Pub, September 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Among the Lions is Harold Horwood's second volume of memoirs, following 1997's A Walk in the Dreamtime, which laid down the foundations of the literary life that continues here.
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9780802044259 | Univ of Toronto Pr, June 5, 1999, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: A delightful autobiography mixes acute observations on university life and key political issues with memories of student days in the 1930s, watercolour painting, and summers on Garden Island.
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9780770427290 | Seal Books, September 1, 1996, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Book by Berton, Pierre
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9780385255288 | Doubleday, October 1, 1995, cover price $34.95
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9781550222098 | E C W Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $16.95
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9780802025456 | Univ of Toronto Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $27.50
Product Description: Hilda Neatby became a figure of national controversy in 1953 with the publication of So Little for the Mind, a harsh critique of Canadian primary and secondary school education. In this collection of her published and unpublished articles, speeches, and letters, Michael Hayden presents the woman behind the controversy in the context of her times...read more
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9780774801713 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, January 1, 1983, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Hilda Neatby became a figure of national controversy in 1953 with the publication of So Little for the Mind, a harsh critique of Canadian primary and secondary school education.
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