Category: Canadian

By Gaile McGregor

ISBN-10: 0802025544

ISBN-13: 9780802025548

Early Canadians, McGregor reveals, have been infrequently the strong adventurers of legend; actually, they most well-liked the view from the citadel to the decision of the wild - a disconcerting via for a state rasied on TomThomson, voyageurs, and the boy scouts. nowa days, Canadians reside such a lot very easily within the safeguard of small cities, fortunately regulated by way of compromise and formality. Ambivalent in personality, they've got constrained horizons, yet inside of those bounds they've got nice strength and skill to regulate their very own lives.

McGregor takes as her start line the Canadian's cringe from nature - the outstanding and opposed northern desert - as exemplified in significant John Richardson's Wacousta. She reveals during this novel a paradigm of the Canadian event - guy at aodds with mostly disagreeable atmosphere - a trend that pervades and dominates our whole cultural expression. via learning Canadian cultural artifacts, fairly literary ones of the 20 th centiry, she explores the Canadian 'langscape' (the set of myths wherein a tradition procedures its stumble upon with nature), aiming at not anything below the delineation of the 'prototypical Canadian' and the 'mapping' of the Canadian experience of self. She reconstructs a entire photo of Canadian tradition, divested of its 'American' veneer, as a rational, self-consistent, seamless entire, and concludes with an excellent research of the function of the artist, specifically the author, as mediator among ourselves and our world.

There is significant serious intelligence at paintings the following. McGregor offers a grand problem to people who imagine they find out about our literature, our artwork, and cultural identification to refine and re0think, most likely even swap, their present views.

By C. Arnold Snyder, Linda A. Huebert Hecht

ISBN-10: 088920277X

ISBN-13: 9780889202771

in the course of the upheavals of the Reformation, some of the most major of the unconventional Protestant routine emerged — that of the Anabaptist move. Profiles of Anabaptist Women presents energetic, well-researched profiles of the brave girls who selected to probability prosecution and martyrdom to pursue this unsanctioned faith — a faith that, in contrast to the proven religions of the day, in the beginning provided them chance and encouragement to proselytize.

Derived from sixteenth-century executive files and court docket stories, hymns, songs and poems, those profiles offer a landscape of existence and religion reviews of ladies from Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Austria.

those own tales of braveness, religion, dedication and resourcefulness interweave women’s lives into the larger milieu, concerning them to the dominant male context and the socio-political historical past of the Reformation. Taken jointly, those sketches will supply readers an appreciation for the relevant function performed by way of Anabaptist girls within the emergence and endurance of this radical department of Protestantism.

By R. M. Pelloux (auth.), A. S. Krausz, J. I. Dickson, J.-P. A. Immarigeon, W. Wallace (eds.)

ISBN-10: 9401073805

ISBN-13: 9789401073806

By William Beard, Jerry White

ISBN-10: 0888643985

ISBN-13: 9780888643988

The essays in North of every little thing learn the country of Canadian movie in the course of a interval of severe swap. Their concentration levels from the normal cinema to the avant garde, NFB documentaries to DIY videotapes. This entire quantity provides essays on verified and rising filmmakers and comprises discussions of Canadian movie associations, heritage, and coverage.

By David Buisseret

ISBN-10: 0870134485

ISBN-13: 9780870134487

Papers provided on the Society's twenty second Annual assembly, held in Poitiers, thirteen are in French, three are in English. 6x9.5", viii+260 pp.

By Philip Resnick

ISBN-10: 0774808047

ISBN-13: 9780774808040

An exam of the position that British Columbia has performed within the evolving Canadian cohesion debate. Philip Resnick explores what makes British Columbia stand aside as a area of Canada and appears on the perspectives of politicians, opinion-makers and traditional voters on quite a few concerns.

By Jennifer Welsh, Ngaire Woods

ISBN-10: 1554580293

ISBN-13: 9781554580293

Can solid governance be exported? overseas improvement help is extra usually being utilized to strengthening governance in constructing nations, and in Exporting stable Governance: Temptations and demanding situations in Canada’s reduction software, the editors compile assorted views to enquire no matter if relief for sturdy governance works. the 1st portion of the publication outlines the altering face of foreign improvement tips and ideas of fine governance. the second one part analyzes six international locations: 3 are nations to which Canada has dedicated a good portion of its relief efforts during the last 5 to 10 years: Ghana, Vietnam, and Bangladesh. are more moderen and extra complicated “fragile states,” the place Canada has engaged: Haiti and Afghanistan. those 5 are then in comparison with Mauritius, which has loved fairly solid governance. the ultimate part seems to be at demanding situations and new instructions for Canadas improvement coverage. Co-published with the Centre for foreign Governance Innovation

By Elle Andra-Warner

ISBN-10: 1894974689

ISBN-13: 9781894974684

The explorers and fur investors who begun the Hudsons Bay corporation have been brash and bold adventurers looking for their fortunes within the New global. Hudsons Bay corporation Adventures vividly relates the often violent early heritage of the long-lasting Canadian corporation and the characters who laboured for it. In doing so, the ebook brings to existence the interesting historical past of Canadas oldest corporation with stories of warring fur-trade businesses, marvelous trips and very good hardships and threat within the unforgiving desert

By Paulette Jiles

Oil is king of East Texas throughout the darkest years of the good melancholy. The Stoddard girls—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—know no lifestyles yet an itinerant one, trailing their father from city to city as he searches for paintings at the pipelines and derricks. yet in a yr of devastating drought and mud storms, the family's fortunes sink additional than they ever expected while a questionable "accident" leaves the ladies and their mom, Elizabeth, by myself to confront the harshest hardships of those toughest of times.

Returning to their formerly deserted relations farm, the resilient Stoddard ladies needs to now position their final hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil good that eats up what little they've got left . . . and at the again of past due patriarch Jack's one real legacy, a perilous racehorse named Smoky Joe.

By Charles Conteh, Ian Roberge

ISBN-10: 1466591722

ISBN-13: 9781466591721

The calls for linked to reliable governance and sturdy public administration are at an all-time excessive. but the self-discipline of Canadian public management is in flux, and the time is ripe for an open and frank research of its country and percentages. Canadian Public management within the twenty first Century brings jointly rising voices in Canadian public management to contemplate present and destiny customers within the self-discipline. a brand new wave of students has introduced new power, ambition, and views to the sphere. during this ebook they take inventory and construct on proven traditions and present traits, concentrating on rising, or reemerging, concerns and challenges.

The booklet identifies and analyzes the emergent study schedule in public management, concentrating on Canada to demonstrate key ideas, frameworks, and concerns. It includes 3 thematically geared up sections, exploring techniques, buildings, and ideas of Canadian public management. It addresses the huge, emergent pattern in approaches of carrier supply or coverage implementation more often than not often called the hot public governance. It then significantly examines the structural and institutional dimensions of Canadian public management in gentle of modern instructions within the box. an entire exploration of recent ideas, tools, values, and ethics in Canadian public management examine and perform rounds out the insurance.

Bringing jointly rising students, the booklet bridges the distance among verified analytical traditions and novel theoretical and methodological ways within the box. It proposes a brand new, extra interdisciplinary public management more and more thinking about governance and never completely on administration.