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A Half Century of Conflict
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 4.99Historian, critic, and horticulturist Francis Parkman was renowned for his analytical acuity and narrative skill. In A Half Century of Conflict: France and England in North America, Volume 1, Parkman dissects and explains the tumult that surrounded the birth of the United States. This book is regarded as one of the highest literary achievements in... more...
Het hoge woord
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 35.50'Het is bij mij begonnen met nieuwsgierigheid', zo verwoordt August Willemsen (1936) zijn levenslange toewijding aan het vertalen, in het bijzonder van Portugese en Braziliaanse literatuur. In Het hoge woord schrijft hij virtuoos over leven en werk van de door hem in Nederland geïntroduceerde Fernando Pessoa, maar ook over de architectuur van... more...
Champlain
Tundra 2010; US$ 18.95?One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure.? So begins Christopher Moore?s riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, daring ?father of New France.? Samuel de Champlain helped found the first permanent French settlement in the New World; he established the village... more...
Problèmes politiques
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1994; US$ 18.75Dans cet ouvrage l'auteur examine quelques-uns des problèmes politiques qui opposent le Canada et le Québec : les autorités politiques sont-elles crédibles aux yeux de l'électorat ? La population est-elle satisfaite de la gestion des finances publiques ? Les politiques sociales satisfont-elles les aspirations de toutes... more...
The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siècle
University of Ottawa Press 2003; US$ 24.99In this collection of essays some of Canada's foremost writers and thinkers, including John Ralston Saul and Margaret Atwood, call for equilibrium among economics, culture, and technological change. While promoting the dynamism and change possible in Canadian society, they also call for a re-examination of Canada's past in order to chart its future.... more...
Le Processus politique
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2000; US$ 24.99Avec les bouleversements que connaissent nos sociétés, e à cause de la rapidité et de l?ampleur avec lesquelles ils se produisent, les événements politiques sont difficiles à suive et à expliquer. C?est pourquoi les auteures de cet ouvrage nous amènent à examiner en profondeur les phénomènes politiques importants en appuyant leur démonstration sur... more...
Canada on the Threshold of the 21st Century
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 90.00This collection contains a selection of papers presented a the very First All-European Canandian Studies Conference that took place in The Hague, October 24-27, 1990. This unique meeting took place for the first time in the history of Canadian Studies. The focus of the papers is on the future rather than the past and it took place at a moment in time... more...
A Concise History of Canada
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 22.00This book traces Canada's history from the arrival of the Aboriginal peoples, through European conquest, to its prosperous present. more...
Working the Dead Beat
House of Anansi Press 2012; US$ 29.95Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin honours the lives of Canada's famous, infamous, and unsung heroes in this unique collection of obituaries of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Here are Canadian icons such as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, social activist June Callwood, and urban theorist Jane Jacobs.... more...
The Unfinished Canadian
McClelland & Stewart 2008; US$ 19.99The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians. What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized world, where globalization is a byword for a deadening sameness, why do peoples who live in the... more...









