Contradictory Impulses

Contradictory Impulses
Author: Greg Donaghy
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774858354

Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Historical Association. Canada's early participation in the Asia-Pacific region was hindered by "contradictory impulses" shaping its approach. For over half a century, racist restrictions curtailed immigration from Japan, even as Canadians manoeuvred for access to the fabled wealth of the Orient. Canada's relations with Japan have changed profoundly since then. In Contradictory Impulses, leading scholars draw upon the most recent archival research to examine an important bilateral relationship that has matured in fits and starts over the past century. As they makes clear, the two countries' political, economic, and diplomatic interests are now more closely aligned than ever before and wrapped up in a web of reinforcing cultural and social ties. Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive study of the social, political, and economic interactions between Canada and Japan from the late nineteenth century until today.

Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century

Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century
Author: Joan Murray
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1999-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1550023322

Joan Murray discusses social and political events in combination with the movements, ideas, attitudes, styles, and important groups in Canadian art of this century.

Parties Long Estranged

Parties Long Estranged
Author: Margaret MacMillan
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2003
Genre: Australia
ISBN:

This book brings together recent and original work to illuminate comparisons and contrasts between two former colonies of the British Empire. The contributors include some of the top names in history and political science in Canada and Australia. They cover the entire twentieth century and examine different aspects of Canadian-Australian relations, including trade, civil aviation, and military, constitutional, imperial, and diplomatic relations. The comparisons include Aboriginal rights, nation building, middle powers, and attitudes toward the Empire. This timely volume is well situated in the field of comparative studies, a new and growing area. It will be of interest to students and scholars of foreign affairs, the British Commonwealth and its dismantling, constitutional history, and international relations.

The Visual Arts in Canada

The Visual Arts in Canada
Author: Brian Foss
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This book charts the developments in Canadian art from the late nineteenth century to the present with new essays by the country's leading art historians. A comprehensive overview, this volume embraces painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, and conceptual and cross-disciplinary art, as well as studies of art institutions and historiography. Each chapter explores the richness and diversity of Canadian art; topics range from impressionist painting to the multimedia work of First Nations artists, and from the Group of Seven to contemporary video production. Newly commissioned, carefully edited, and with 185 full-colour illustrations, The Visual Arts in Canada will appeal to general readers and students alike. An extensive index, as well as an appendix that list galleries and artist-run centres across the country, make this the definitive resource for Canadian art from the past century. Throughout the twenty chapters, readers will recognize favourite artists and encounter new ones-all of whom play an integral role in the country's visual history.

Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada

Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada
Author: Michael Gauvreau
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0773576002

By examinng education, charity, community discipline, the relationship between clergy and congregations, and working-class religion, the contributors shift the field of religious history into the realm of the socio-cultural. This novel perspective reveals that the Christian churches remained dynamic and popular in English and French Canada, as well as among immigrants, well into the twentieth century.

Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century

Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century
Author: John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Publisher: Regent College Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1998-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781573831314

In the 1980s, evangelical Protestantism emerged as a prominent new force in Canada. While political campaigns and sexual scandals among American evangelicals attracted attention north of the border as well, Canadian evangelicals were quietly establishing a network of individuals and institutions that reflected their distinctive concerns. While the United, Anglican, and Presbyterian churches continued to enjoy "mainline Protestant" status in Canadian culture, more Canadians who actually practiced Christianity in measurable ways could be counted among the evangelicals than among these dominant Protestant denominations. And while most Canadians -- including experts in religious studies -- continued to think of Canadian Christianity in traditional denominational terms, "evangelicalism" was coming into focus as a category essential to understanding this new pattern of allegiance and activity. - Introduction.

Courage and Conquest

Courage and Conquest
Author: Donna Ward
Publisher: London, Ont. : Northwoods Press
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2000
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 9780968678800

Making History in Twentieth-century Quebec

Making History in Twentieth-century Quebec
Author: Ronald Rudin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802078384

The first comprehensive examination of the way French-speaking Quebecers have written about their past in the 20th century. Rudin's analysis offers new ways of thinking about Quebec society over the course of this century.