The Wirth Trinational Library
A selection of texts available at NAMI's Santa Fe offices.| AUTHOR | TITLE | PUBLISHER | ISBN NUMBER | PAGES | COPIES | DESCRIPTION | |
| Adams, Michael | Sex In The Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Millennium | Viking/Penguin Books Ltd. Toronto;1997 | ISBN: 0-670-87173-7 | 219 pages | 1 copy | Sex in the Snow sketches the new psychological landscape of Canada as technology, feminism, mass media, and globalization start to shape contemporary society independent of demographics. Adams shows how the new postures of Canadians have been shaped by three major quests—for personal autonomy, for pleasure, and for spiritual fulfillment—in order to reveal what Canadians truly are and what they will be. | |
| Andrew, Arthur | The Rise and Fall of a Middle Power: Canadian Diplomacy from King to Mulroney | James Lorimer & Company, Publishers. Toronto; 1993 | ISBN: 1-55028 430-4 (bound); ISBN: 1-55028-432-0 (pbk) | 186 pages | 1 copy | In The Rise and Fall of a Middle Power Andrew Arthur explores whether Canada could recreate the role of the international Middle Power for itself. This book is a lively and informative discussion Canadian foreign policy from the forties to the nineties. This book will be of interest to anyone who wants an inside look at External Affairs or a better understanding of Canada’s changing role in the world. | |
| Axworthy, Thomas S. and Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Translated by Patricia Claxton) | Towards a Just Society: the Trudeau Years | Viking. Markham;1990 | ISBN:0-670-83015-1 | 404 pages | 1 copy | This collection of essays tells the story of the years surrounding Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s election and the development of his government’s vision of a Just Society. The debate over Trudeau’s government is joined by the most prominent players and analysts of the era. | |
| Berger, Carl | The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing since 1900 | University of Toronto Press. Toronto; 1986 | ISBN:0-8020-2546-3 (cloth); ISBN:0-8020-6568-6 (pbk) | 364 pages | 1 copy | In this classic study of Canadian historiography, Carl Berger considers the impact of subtle and unpredictable influences on a number of outstanding Canadian historians and thus on the development of scholarship in, and our understanding of, the history of Canada. In this second volume, Berger offers a new understanding of the nation’s intellectual life and the chain of influences that have directed it. | |
| Bercuson, David and Robert Bothwell and J.L. Granatstein | Petrified Campus: the Crisis in Canada’s Universities | Random House of Canada. Toronto;1997 | ISBN: 0-679-30876 8 | 216 pages | 1 copy | Petrified Campus looks into the troubles of Canada’s publicly supported universities. As fees increase and standards decrease, Canadian universities are being abandoned for universities in the U.S., U.K., and even on the Internet. The book is an important and necessary call for change in a system that is not working. | |
| Bliss, Michael | Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business | McClelland and Stewart. Toronto;1987 | ISBN:0-7710-1577-1 | 640 pages | 1 copy | This book captures the whole history of business in Canada in one volume—from the earliest Atlantic fishermen who came to the shores in the 1480s to the faltering steps of free trade in the 1980s. Acclaimed historian Michael Bliss skillfully weaves together a book of enormous scope with immense research and provocative ideas—all presented with lively wit and sparkling prose. | |
| Bliss Michael | Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney | Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. Toronto; 1994 | ISBN:0-00-255071-7 | 336 pages | 1 copy | Right and Honourable Men offers a unique history of Canada told through the personalities of the country’s ten most important prime ministers. Bliss explores the great themes of Canadian history that all leaders grapple with: constant warring between federal and provincial governments; the cut-and-thrust of party politics; the continuing role of patronage; and the unforgiving demands of leadership. Written with insight, wit and brilliance, this passionate and timely exploration of the limits of leadership, at a point when the bonds of nationhood are again under stress, will helps to set the political agenda for Canada’s future. | |
| Blodgett, Jean et al | The Mc Michael Canadian Art Collection: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition (1965-1990) | Mc Graw Hill Ryderson Ltd. Toronto;1989 | ISBN: 0-7729-5745 2 | 175 pages | 3 copies | This beautiful volume brings together the highlights of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, including some of the most famous works of Tom Thompson and the Group of Seven, J.W. Morrice, Clarence Gagnon, Emily Carr, David Milne, and the Canadian Group of Painters, as well as Inuit and Indian Art. The accompanying text brings to life the history of Canadian art as it is reflected in the collection, and includes select biographies. | |
| Bothwell, Robert, and Ian Drummond, and John English | Canada since 1945: Power Politics, and Provincialism | University of Toronto Press. Toronto; 1981 | ISBN: 0-8020-2417-3; ISBN:0-8020-6478-7 (pbk) | 489 pages | 1 copy | Canada’s recent past is presented with remarkable clarity in this first general history of the country’s postwar years. From the end of the Mackenzie King era up to the 1980 election and the Quebec referendum, the authors place Canadian cultural, social, intellectual, and economic development in the context of political evolution. | |
| Bothwell, Robert and William Kilbourn | C.D. Howe: A Biography | McClelland and Stewart. Toronto1979 | ISBN:0-7710-4537-9 | 397 pages | 1 copy | This is the first major biography of the awesome giant among Canadian politicians, the colossus who dominated the national landscape for more than a quarter century and left it irreversibly changed. | |
| Boulton, Marsha | Just a Minute: Glimpses of Our Canadian Heritage | Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Limited. Boston;1994 | ISBN: 0-316-10369-1 | 247 pages | 1 copy | Just a Minute free-wheels through some of the most interesting and human stories of a nation that was named “Kanata” after the Iroquois word for “village.” This hugely readable, historically correct and wildly entertaining volume will leave readers in amazement. | |
| Bumsted, J.M. | The Red River Rebellion | Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data. 1996 | ISBN: 0-920486-23-1 | 359 pages | 1 copy | In 1869, the new nation of Canada sought to achieve its “manifest destiny” by annexing the territory previously controlled by the Hudson’s Bay Company. In the process, Canada managed to blunder into an unexpected conflict with armed rebels in the Red River Settlement. This is the story of that confrontation, told from the perspective of its leading participants. | |
| Careless, J.M.S. | Frontier and Metropolis: Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada before 1914 | University of Toronto Press. Toronto; 1989 | ISBN:0-8020-5824-8 | 132 pages | 1 copy | In this series essays J.M.S. Careless returns to the themes of regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in history. Careless endows his subject with the combined force of his own continuing research, his sensitivity to the new historical scholarship, and the lively and penetrating mind that have made him one of Canada’s leading historians for more than thirty years. | |
| Crane, David | The Next Canadian Century: Building a Competitive Economy | Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited. Toronto; 1992 | ISBN: | 302 pages | 1 copy | In this stimulating and thought provoking work, David Crane looks ahead to the worlds Canadians will face in the twenty-first century and what Canada must do to succeed in the new global economy. The Next Canadian Century is at once a brilliant economic critique and a comprehensive blueprint fro a brighter future. | |
| Craig, G.M. ed. | Lord Durham’s Report: An Abridgement | Carleton University Press. Ottawa; 1992 | ISBN: 0-88629-000-7 (pbk) | 179 pages | 1 copy | The 1837 Rebellions in Lower and Upper Canada reflected the class and national distinctions in Britain's North American Colonies, as well as the aspirations of the population for democracy. The rebellions were ruthlessly crushed, however the colonial authorities knew that they could not maintain the status-quo and sent Lord Durham to Canada to report on the situation. Durham's report led to fundamental changes in the colonial relationships and contributed to the constitutional development that led to the founding of the country of Canada. | |
| Creighton, Donald | John A. Macdonald; The Old Chieftain | The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd. Toronto; 1955 | ISBN: | 630 pages | 1 copy | description | |
| Creighton, Donald | John A. Macdonald; The Young Politician | The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd. Toronto; 1952 | ISBN: | 524 pages | 1 copy | Donald Creighton's biography of John A. Macdonald is considered a classic in Canadian history. This is the first volume of a two volume series on the life of John A. Macdonald. Both parts won the Governor General's award. | |
| Crosbie, John C and Geoffrey Stevens | No Holds Barred: My Life in Politics. | McClelland and Stewart Inc. Toronto; 1997 | ISBN:0-7710-2427-4 | 505 pages | 1 copy | In No Holds Barred, John Crosbie offers trenchant opinions on issues ranging from Atlantic Canada’s prospects after separation and the desirability of fostering a closer relationship with Castro’s Cuba. This memoir takes us from John Crosbie’s younger days as a medal-winning student to municipal politics in St. John’s and then the crucible of Joey Smallwood’s corrupt dictatorship. Nothing is withheld in this entertaining memoir by one of the dominant politicians of his generation. | |
| English, John | Shadow of Heaven; the Life of Lester Pearson: Volume One: 1897-1948 | Vintage U.K. London; 1989 | ISBN: 0-09-982550-3 | 414 pages | 1 copy | Lester Pearson—Canada’s 14th prime minister and foremost diplomat—was a man of deep and passionate convictions. His vision of Canada as a force of international peace, mediation, and goodwill helped redefine Canada’s view of itself. This biography explores how this seemingly mild and easy-going man develop such a powerful and unswerving vision and how he was able to sin the political clout to put his beliefs into practice. | |
| English, John and Norman Hillmer. Ed | Making a Difference? Canada’s Foreign Policy in a Changing World Order | Lester Publishing Limited. Toronto; 1991 | ISBN:1-895555 30-2 | 236 pages | 1 copy | Making a Difference? analyses what the Canada has accomplished with its independence over the years. In this book Canada’s most distinguished historians and political scientists confront the question of what difference Canada has really made to the world. | |
| Forster, Ben | A Conjunction of Interests: Business, Politics, and Tariffs 1825-1879 | University of Toronto Press, Toronto1986 | ISBN: 0-8020-6612-7 (pbk); ISBN: 0-8020-5680-6 (bound) | 288 pages | 1 copy | In this detailed account of the events leading up to the adoption of Canada’s National Policy of 1879, which brought dramatic changes to Canada’s tariff policy, Ben Forster explores a wide range of political and economic forces and traces their influence on successive Liberal and Conservative governments. Forster’s analysis illuminates a critical chapter in Canadian political history, one with implications for current discussions on import quotas, industrial policy, and free trade. | |
| Francis, Douglas R. and Richard Jones and Donald B. Smith | Origins: Canadian History Since Confederation | Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Ltd. Toronto; 1988 | ISBN:0-03-921705-1 | 410 pages | 1 copy | Origins is the first book of a two volume edition that sketches the history of Canada from the beginning of human occupation to the present. The purpose of both volumes is to outline how immense this country came to be, to explain its regions developed, and to relate the common history of its diverse population. Origins tells the history of pre-Confederation Canada—the native people, the coming of the Norse, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Basques, and particularly the French and the British, who eventually established permanent European settlements. | |
| Francis, Douglas R. and Richard Jones and Donald B. Smith | Destinies: Canadian History to Confederation | Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Ltd. Toronto; 1988 | ISBN:0-03-921706-X | 493 pages | 1 copy | Destinies is the second book of a two volume edition that sketches the history of Canada from the beginning of human occupation to the present. The purpose of both volumes is to outline how immense this country came to be, to explain its regions developed, and to relate the common history of its diverse population. Destinies takes the story of the British North American colonies from 1867 to the present day. | |
| Gotlieb, Allan | ‘I’ll be with you in a minute Mr. Ambassador:’ The Education of a Canadian Diplomat in Washington | University of Toronto Press. Toronto; 1991 | ISBN: 0-8020-6872-3 (pbk) | 161 pages | 1 copy | In this extended essay Allan Gotlieb describes his experiences in Washington as Canadian ambassador and offers strategies for dealing with Washington’s dispersed and shared system of decision-making in foreign affairs. | |
| Granatstein, J.L. | Canada 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation. | McClelland and Stewart. Toronto; 1986 | ISBN: 0-7710-3515-2 | 375 pages | 1 copy | This book is part of a nineteen volume series entitled, The Canadian Centenary Series, which is a comprehensive history of the people and lands which form the Canadian nation. In this volume, J.L Granastein explores the crucial ten-year period from 1957-1967, in which Canada’s culture, economy, and politics took new directions and the foundations of today’s political and social realities were laid. | |
| Granatstein, J.L. | Who Killed Canadian History? | Harper Perennial. Toronto; 1998 | ISBN: 0-00-255759-2 (bound); ISBN: 0-00-638607-5 (pbk) | 156 pages | 1 copy | In this book, Professor J.L. Granatstein explores the idea that Canada has suffered and is still suffering because the educational system is not accurately teaching history. He seeks explain the importance of studying and learning from history. | |
| Granatstein, J.L | Yankee Go Home? Canadians and Anti-Americanism | Harper Collins Publisher Ltd. Toronto; 1996 | ISBN:0-00-25301-5 | 317 pages | 1 copy | This book is a survey of anti-Americanism in Canadian history, from the arrival of the Loyalists to the turn-of-the-century elections—when free trade was the critical issue—up to the 1988 passage of the Free Trade Agreement. | |
| Granatstein, J.L. and Paul Stevens. Ed. | A Reader’s Guide to Canadian History 2: Confederation to the Present | University of Toronto Press. Toronto;1982 | ISBN: 0-8020-6442-6 (v. 1); ISBN: 0-8020-6490-6 (v. 2) | 329 pages | 1 copy | In this book, twelve experts guide the reader through the maze of historical writing about post-Confederation Canada with a critical assessment of the best and most useful articles, papers, and books that have been published. 5656 | |
| Griffiths, N.E. S. and G.A. Rawlyk | Mason Wade Acadia and Quebec: the Perception of an Outsider | Carleton University Press. Canada; 1991 | ISBN: 0-88629—149-6 (pbk); ISBN: 0-88629—147-X (casebound) | 198 pages | 1 copy | This volume brings together some of the finest essays written by the controversial and significant historian, Mason Wade. The late Professor Wade was one of Canada’s most original scholars in the field of Acadian and Quebec history. | |
| Harcourt, Mike and Wayne Skene | Mike Harcourt: A measure of Defiance | Douglas and McIntyre. Vancouver;1996 | ISBN:1-55054-520-5 | 223 pages | 1 copy | n this refreshingly candid, acerbic memoir, Mike Harcourt looks back on his turbulent quarter-century in political life. This book offers insider detail on the cut and thrust of political infighting and intrigue. | |
| Head, Ivan and Pierre Trudeau | The Canadian Way: Shaping Canada’s Foreign Policy, 1968-1984. | McClelland and Stewart Inc. Toronto; 1995 | ISBN:0-7710-4099-7 | 361 pages | 1 copy | The Canadian Way—which reflects the experiences and perspectives of both authors—provides a fascinating insider’s view of an important period in the development of Canada’s foreign policy. | |
| Hebert, Jacques | Hello, World! | Talon books/Robert Davies Publishing. Montreal; 1996 | ISBN:1-895854-60-1 | 307 pages | 1 copy | In this book, Jacques Hebert, founding president of Canada World Youth, takes the reader on a marvelous journey around the world through his eyes and through the eyes of Canadian participants in Canada World Youth Projects. | |
| Hilliker, John | Canada’s Department of External Affairs: Volume I, the Early Years, 1909-1946 | McGill-Queen’s University Press. Montreal; 1990 | ISBN: 0-7735-0736-1 (cloth); ISBN: 0-7735-0751-5 (pbk) | 406 pages | 1 copy | This first volume of the official history of the Department of External Affairs covers the department’s administrative growth from its formation in 1909 through the major changes brought about by World War II. | |
| Howard, Victor and Mac Reynolds | The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion: the Canadian Contingent in the Spanish Civil War | Carleton University Press. Ottawa; 1986 | ISBN:0-88629-049-X | 285 pages | 1 copy | Marking the 50th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, Victor Howard and Mac Reynolds tell the story of the Canadians that went to fight in the epic conflict. | |
| James, Carl E. and Adrienne Shadd | Talking About Difference: Encounters in Culture, Language, and Identity | Between the Lines. Toronto; 1994 | ISBN:0-921284-92-6 (bound); ISBN: 0-921284-93-4 (pbk) | 244 pages | 1 copy | In Talking About Difference, Canadians from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds--Aboriginal, African, Jewish, East European, and Asian--present their impressions of what it's like to grow up in, immigrate to, or work in Canada. Their personal stories illuminate the complex ways in which culture, race, class and identity find expression in our daily lives. | |
| Klepak, H.P. Ed. | Canadian and Mexican Perspectives on International Security: Natural Allies? Carleton University Press Inc. 1996. | Collaboration between Carleton University Press and the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) | ISBN:0-88629-277-8 | 208 pages | 1 copy | The content of this book is based on a workshop held in Mexico City in 1994 about the intersecting interests in the Canada-Mexico dialogue. As hemispheric security concerns are in a process of redefinition, Natural Allies? examines important issues such as economic factors, drug trafficking, questions of autonomy and strategic alliance, and defense priorities. This is volume two in CHANGING AMERICAS, a series published in collaboration with the Canadian Foundation for the Americas. | |
| Krots, Larry | Indian Country: Inside Another Canada | McClelland and Stewart Inc. Toronto: 1990 | ISBN: 0-7710-4541-7 | 271 pages | 1 copy | In his bestseller Indian Country, Larry Krotz takes readers on a tour of five very different First Nation reserves, introducing us to the issues that face--and the hopes that inspire--Native leaders and reserve residents. A new final section outlines the effects of the armed Mohawk uprising of 1990 on attitudes and politics throughout Canada. | |
| Leslie, Peter M. and Kenneth Norrie and Irene K Ip | A Partnership In Trouble: Renegotiation Fiscal Federalism | C.D. Howe Institute. Toronto; 1993. (Policy Study 18) | ISBN: 0-88806-319-9 | 174 pages | 1 copy | The papers in this book bring the urgent dilemma of fiscal federalism in Canada to public attention while there is still time to influence the outcome. The authors introduce the issues of fiscal federalism, examine its systemic problems, and consider various options for getting out of the dilemma Canada is in. Although they differ in approach and emphasis, each underlines the need for restructuring the fiscal arrangements and with them much of the social program network. | |
| MacLeod, Margaret and W.L. Morton | Cuthbert Grant of Grantown | McClelland and Stewart Ltd. Toronto; 1974 | ISBN: | 174 pages | 1 copy | First published in 1963, Cuthbert Grant of Grantown provided a fresh interpretation of a previously shadowy era of Metis history. While focusing on the life of the Metis settlement bearing his name, the authors carefully reconstruct the controversial "massacre" of Seven Oaks, the Siouan wars, and the Red River settlement's fight for survival. | |
| Marty, Sid. Men For the Mountains | Vanguard Press, Inc | New York;1978 | ISBN: 0-8149-0812-8 | 270 pages | 1 copy | The language, legends, and lore of Canadian mountain men are brought to life in the colorful prose of one of their own--Sid Marty. His natural talent for words lets loose the power, excitement and humor of firsthand anecdotes, episodes, dramatic rescues and high adventure amid the natural grandeur of the Canadian Rockies. | |
| Mathews, Georges | Quiet Resolution: Quebec’s Challenge to Canada | Summerhill Press. Toronto; 1990 | ISBN:0-929092-35-3 | 180 pages | 1 copy | In Quiet Resolution, noted Quebec political economist Georges Mathews delivers a sophisticated sardonic assessment of the three decades of Quebec-Canada relations since the Revolution of 1960. Witty and pragmatic, Mathews delivers a historical account that is a bestseller in Quebec, and will find favor, and cause controversy, in many parts of English Canada. | |
| Mc Dowall, Duncan | Quick to the Frontier: Canada’s Royal Bank | McClelland and Stewart Inc. Toronto;1993 | ISBN:0-7710-5504-8 | 478 pages | 1 copy | Quick to the Frontier, is the story of Canada's Royal Bank, told not only in terms of executive personalities and corporate strategies, but also though an exploration of its corporate culture--of the lives of the people of the Royal--and of the part this corporate culture played in the opening of the country and expansion of international trade. Eminently readable as well as informative, Quick to the Frontier fills an important gap in Canadian business history. | |
| Moore, Carolyn | Our Land, Too: Women of Canada and the Northwest 1860-1914 | (The Women’s Directorate and Curriculum Department of Education, Government of the Yukon). 1992 | ISBN: 1-55018-485-7 | 97 pages | 1 copy | This book shifts the typical historian's perspective from male to female. Divided into eight chapters, it details the role of women in Canadian society in Northwestern Canada from 1860 to 1914. | |
| Morton, Desmond | A Short History of Canada. | McClelland and Stewart Inc. Toronto; 1994 | ISBN:0-7710-6516-7 | 351 pages | 1 copy | This new, expanded edition of A Short History of Canada provides a comprehensive overview of Canadian history.. Author, Desmond Morton, explores the many links between Canada's past and present in order to help the reader better understand the Canada of today. | |
| Muise, D.A. Ed | A Reader’s Guide to Canadian History 1: Beginnings to Confederation | University of Toronto Press. Toronto;1982 | ISBN: 0-8020-6442-6 (V.I) | 253 pages | 1 copy | In this book, six experts guide the reader through the maze of historical writing about pre-Confederation Canada with a critical assessment of the best and most useful articles, papers, and books that have been published. For students preparing essays and term papers, or for readers simply seeking intelligent direction for broadening and deepening their understanding of particular periods, themes, or topics, this is a reliable and essential map of the field. | |
| Palmer, Howard and Tamara Palmer | Alberta: A New History | Hurting Publishers Ltd. Edmonton; 1990 | ISBN: 0-88830-340-8 | 422 pages | 1 copy | Alberta: A New History is an informative look at Alberta's past and what has made it the fascinating and vital province it is today. | |
| Porter, John | The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada | University of Toronto Press. Toronto; 1965 | ISBN:0-8020-1357-0 (clothbound); ISBN: 0-8020-6055-2 (pbk) | 626 pages | 1 copy | This book looks at two important aspects of Canadian society: its class structure and the composition of its elites or powerholding groups. Although this is a sociological study in which the evidence is related to social theory, the book is interesting to the layman as well as the specialist. | |
| Radice, Martha | Feeling Comfortable/ the Urban Experience of Anglo-Montrealers | Les Presses de L’universite Laval. Saint-Nicolas; 2000 | ISBN:2-7637-7699-X | 174 pages | 1 copy | Martha Radice explores how ordinary Anglo-Montrealers feel about their place in the city since the Quiet Revolution when Montreal became a French Metropolis. Written in a lively and accessible style and with an anthropologist's eye for detail, it will make a fascinating reading for all those interested in the urban studies or contemporary Quebec culture. | |
| Rasporich, A.W. Ed | The Making of The Modern West: Western Canada Since 1945 | The University of Calgary Press. Calgary; 1984 | ISBN:0-919813-04-6 | 231 pages | 1 copy | This collection of essays attempts for the first time to provide a composite view of western Canadian development since the Second World War, and an analysis of the dynamic decades following the Leduc discovery of 1947. The Making of the Modern West combines perspectives on both past development and insights into contemporary society thought and attitudes. | |
| Ritchie, Charles | An Appetite for Life: the Education of a Young Diarist 1924-1927 | MacMillan of Canada. Toronto; 1977 | ISBN: 0-7705-1573-8(hbk); ISBN: 0-7715-9257-4 (pbk) | 173 pages | 2 copies | An Appetite A for Life is not only a hilariously funny book, it presents a vivid picture of two worlds--Halifax and Oxford in the mid-twenties--that are now long gone. It introduces us to an astonishing range of characters; the most astonishing of all is Charles Ritchie himself. | |
| Ritchie, Charles | Diplomatic Passport: More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1946-1962 | Macmillan of Canada. Toronto; 1981 | ISBN: 0-7715-9587-5 (hbk); ISBN: 0-7715-9257-4 | 200 pages (hbk); 173 pages (pbk) | 2 copies | This third volume, Diplomatic Passport, in which Charles Ritchie views the diplomatic circles of London, Paris, Bonn, New York, and Ottawa with an eye that is sharp and a wit that is ironic, is sure to draw further superlatives from his delighted admirers, and to surprise and delight those who have not yet read his previous books. | |
| Ritchie, Charles | The Siren Years: A Canadian Diplomat Abroad 1937-1945 | Macmillan of Canada. Toronto; 1974 | ISBN:0-7705-1192-9; ISBN: 0-77051585-1 (0-7715-9800-9) (pbk) | 216 pages | 2 copies | With a real sense of humor and in a superb prose, Charles Ritchie has written not so much of political events and diplomacy in themselves but of his personal response to these events and to people--rich, evocative, and introspective. This is a vivid document of the atmosphere of 1937-1945, but above all it is a magnificent piece of writing. | |
| Ritchie, Charles | Storm Signals: More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1962-1971 | Macmillan of Canada. Toronto; 1983 | ISBN:0-7715-9782-7 (hbk); ISBN: 0-7715-9257-4 (pbk) | 175 pages (hbk); 173 pages (pbk) | 2 copies | In Storm Signals Charles Ritchie, in his posts as Canadian Ambassador to J.F.K.'s and L.B.J.'s Washington and as High Commissioner to London, turns shrewd intelligence and wit once again on the words of diplomacy and high society in which he finds himself. The result is Vintage Ritchie. IT will delight both his many admirers and those who have not read his previous books. | |
| Robertson, Gordon | A House Divided: Meech Lake, Senate Reform and the Canadian Union | The Institute for Research on Public Policy. Halifax; 1989 | ISBN: 0-88645-096-9 | 98 pages | 1 copy | Since the 1950s and 1960s Canadians have been working to establish terms for the union of 1867 to meet the demand for a fully modern, dynamic, and enduring society operating in French. The fundamental proposition of this book is that the success of the next 100 years of confederation depends on completing the work started in the 1950s by meeting the concerns of both Western and Atlantic provinces. | |
| Rochlin, James | Discovering the Americas: The Evolution of Canadian Foreign Policy Towards Latin America | UBC Press. Vancouver; 1994 | ISBN: 0-7748-0476-9 (hbk); ISBN: 0-7748-0477-7 (pbk) | 300 pages | 1 copy | Discovering the Americas provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Canadian foreign policy towards Latin America. The central thesis of this timely book is that changing hegemonic structures represent the most significant factor shaping Canadian policy in the region. | |
| Sanders, Sol W. and James V. Capua and William T. Alpert. Ed | The Canadian Crisis: A Guide for American Media | The William H. Donner Foundation, Inc. New York; 1992 | ISBN:0-9632125-0-8 | 201 pages | 1 copy | The objective of this book is to help news media professionals in the United States to prepare themselves for what may become a Canadian news story of unprecedented breadth and importance. In this book, media professionals will find: a comprehensive yet compact introduction to Canada today; relevant statistical data, a brief chronology of Canadian history, and a political map. | |
| Saywell, John | Canada: Pathways to the Present | Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd. Toronto; 1994 | ISBN:0-7737-5681-7 | 171 pages | 1 copy | Canada: Pathways to the Present is essential reading for all new Canadians or anyone needing a concise introduction to the people and events that have shaped this nation's history. John Saywell provides an easy-to-understand overview of issues facing all Canadians. | |
| Schultz, John. Ed | Writing About Canada: A Handbook for Modern Canadian History | Prentice-Hall Canada Inc. Scarborough; 1990 | ISBN: 0-13-970930-4 | 282 pages | 1 copy | Writing About Canada brings together ten leading authorities in their fields to discuss the history of Canadian economics, labor, ideas, ethnicity, regions, war, women, business, agriculture, and politics. The book provides the non-specialist with a clear overview of the growth of modern Canadian historical writing and the specialist with an authoritative and timely discussion of current approaches, questions, publications, and personalities. | |
| Sharp, Mitchell | Which Reminds Me . . . A Memoir | University of Toronto Press Inc. Toronto; 1994 | ISBN: 0-8020-0545-4 | 288 pages | 1 copy | In this engaging memoir, Mitchell Sharp contemplates the unexpected turns of his public life, combining narrative with reflection on the nature of public service, and the nature of policy over the forty-five years of his career in government. | |
| Simon, Mary May | Inuit: One Future – One Arctic | The Cider Press. Peterborough1996 | ISBN: 1-896851-10-X (bound); ISBN: 1-896851-12-6 (pbk) | 85 pages | 1 copy | The five chapters in this volume are derived from the lectures delivered by Mary May Simon, Trent University's 1992-1993 Visiting Chair of Northern Studies. The topics of the five chapters include: the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, a comprehensive Arctic policy, the Arctic environment, Canadian policy on Inuit education, and the inherent right to self government. | |
| Stouck, David | Major Canadian Authors | A Critical Introduction, University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln; 1984 | ISBN: 0-8032-4119-4 | 308 pages | 1 copy | David Stouck's carefully integrated essays introduce the life and writings of seventeen foremost Canadian authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays also develop the background of Canadian literature, touching on the political, geographical, historical, and social factors that shape the individual authors and Canadian literature as a whole. | |
| Taylor, Grahm D. and Peter A Baskerville | A Concise History of Business in Canada. | Oxford University Press. Toronto; 1994 | ISBN:0-19-540978-7 (pbk) | 491 pages | 1 copy | This book draws on a generation of new scholarship to trace the 500-year history of business institutions in Canada--a complex web of trade, investment, technology, and ideas that connects Canadian business development to the evolution of capitalism in Europe and North America. Within this framework the authors explore the role of entrepreneurs, financial promoters, politicians and bureaucrats, multinational corporations and small, local, or rural businesses in shaping a distinctive Canadian business system. | |
| Thomas, Lewis H. ED | Essays on Western History | The University of Alberta Press. Edmonton; 1976 | ISBN: 0-88864-013-7 | 217 pages | 1 copy | This book contains essays in honor of Dr. L.G. Thomas by eleven of his former students, all of whom are professional historians employed as teachers, archivists, or researchers. Dr. Thomas pioneered courses in Western Canadian History at the University of Alberta where he spent 37 years on the staff of the Department of History. | |
| Wiebbe, Rudy and Bob Beal | War in the West: Voices of the 1885 Rebellion | McClelland and Stewart Ltd. Toronto; 1985 | ISBN: 0-77108973-2 | 192 pages | 1 copy | This illustrated book was published in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the North West Rebellion, one of the most dramatic events in Canadian history. This is the first book to describe the rebellion in the words of the participants. | |
| Woodcock, George | A Social History of Canada | Penguin Books, Toronto; 1989 | ISBN: 0-14-010536-0 | 423 pages | 1 copy | A Social History of Canada is a history of peoples rather than of politics. From Canada's native people and the culture they developed to deal with an extreme environment, to the collision and interactions of immigrants from all over the globe, internationally-acclaimed historian George Woodcoack explores the eclectic mix of people, customs and traditions that make up the distinctive social fabric of Canada. | |
| Woodcock, George and Avakumovie, Ivan | The Doukhobors | Oxford University Press. Toronto; 1968 | ISBN: | 382 pages | 1 copy | This book looks at the history, journey, and development of the Doukhobors, a pacifist religious group that fled persecution in Russia and emigrated to Canada in 1899. | |
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| American Academy of Arts and Sciences--Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | In Search of Canada | V. 117, Number 4: Fall 1998 | No ISBN | 396 pages | 1 copy | This issue of Daeldus, written for an international audience, explores Canada's distinctiveness, attempting to disseminate information--observations and reflections--in order to challenge common stereotypes about the country. | |
| Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto | Canada and Common Security in the Twenty-First Century | Centre for International Studies. Toronto; 1994 | ISBN: 0-7727-0814-2 | 85 pages (English); 93 pages (French) | 1 copy | Canada 21 is a study released by a group of well known Canadians, chaired
by Janice Stein. The report outlines a framework of recommendations and
ideas for the human security agenda, focusing on peacekeeping and peace
building. French/English in one book |
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| International Council for Canadian Studies; Conseil international d’etudes canadiennes | Foreign Publications and Theses | 4th edition Compiled by Linda M. Jones. Ottawa, 1992 | No ISBN | 1 copy | This new edition of Canadian Studies: Foreign Publications and Theses contains references to over 3,300 books, serials, and theses which deal in whole or in part with Canada or with Canadians, but which were produced outside Canada, primarily since 1980. | ||
| The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University | Canadian Foreign Policy | V. 8, Number 3: Spring 2001 | No ISBN | 1 copy | This journal contains abstracts, reports, and book reviews related to Canadian foreign policy. An article of particular North American interest is Environmental Regulations and Corporate Strategy: A NAFTA Perspective by Noemi Gal-Or. | ||