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A Propensity to Protect

By W.H. Heick
Subjects: Business & Economics, Economics, Social Science, Urban Studies, Sociology, History, Canadian History

For Canada the last century was one of great social and economic change: an increasingly urban population witnessed shifts from an agricultural to a mixed economy and from moderate to greater wealth. ...

Brothers Beyond the Sea

By Jonathan F. Wagner
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, History, Canadian History

During the years 1933 to 1939, a pro-Nazi movement developed in Canada. With the support of the German National Socialist Party, Canadian pro-Nazi institutions were formed: clubs, rallies, schools, and ...

Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family introduces the Collected Works by giving an overview of Nightingale’s life and the faith that guided it and by outlining the main social reform ...

Wadi el Hasa Archaeological Survey 1979-1931, West-Central Jordan

By Burton MacDonald
Subjects: Social Science, Archaeology, History

 

In this major work Professor MacDonald chronicles an intensive and systematic archaeological survey of the southern flank of the Wadi el Hasa in West–Central Jordan. The survey resulted in the recovery ...

Working Memory

Edited by Jeanne Perreault & Marlene Kadar
Subjects: History, Military History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Archival Studies
Series: Life Writing

Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memorializing ...

Women in God’s Army

By Andrew Mark Eason
Subjects: Religion, History, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

The early Salvation Army professed its commitment to sexual equality in ministry and leadership. In fact, its founding constitution proclaimed women had the right to preach and hold any office in the ...

Tell el-Hesi

By Lawrence E. Toombs
Subjects: Social Science, Archaeology, History, Sociology

Tell el-Hesi, located in southern Israel at the juncture of the Negev Desert and the foothills of the Judean Mountains, provides an excellent opportunity for the archaeological study of the impact of ...

Kitchener

By John English & Kenneth McLaughlin
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Waterloo Region, Social Science, Urban Studies

The history of Kitchener is unique among cities in southern Ontario. Although Kitchener shares so much of the character of the region today, its past was considerably different. Until 1916, Kitchener ...

Babies for the Nation

By Denyse Baillargeon
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Medical, History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among ...

Children in English-Canadian Society

By Cynthia R. Comacchio & Neil Sutherland
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Social Science, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

“So often a long-awaited book is disappointing. Happily such is not the case with Sutherland’s masterpiece.” Robert M. Stamp, University of Calgary, in The Canadian Historical Review
“Sutherland’s ...