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Transitional Justice after German Reunification
By Juan Espindola. 2015
How do societies transitioning from oppressive to democratic rule hold accountable those citizens who contributed to maintaining injustice in the…
ancient regime by secretly denouncing fellow citizens? Is their public identification a way of fulfilling respect for those who suffered harm as a result of their collaboration? And is public identification respectful of denunciators themselves? This book pursues these questions through a multidisciplinary investigation focusing on the denunciators for the East German secret police and the Ministry of State Security and the way in which they have been publicly unveiled in contemporary German society. The book evaluates the justifications that social actors offer to support or oppose public identifications; how targeted collaborators react to this social practice; and whether it achieves its intended purpose. At every stage, the book asks whether the motivations and the consequences of public identifications honor or undermine the value of respect for people.With its roots in nineteenth-century poor relief welfare is Canada s oldest and most controversial social program…
No other policy is so closely linked to debates on the causes of poverty the meaning of work the difference between entitlement and charity and the definition of basic human needs The first history of welfare in Canada s richest province offers a new perspective on our contemporary response to poverty Struthers examines the evolution of provincial and local programs for single mothers the aged and the unemployed between 1920 and 1970 when the modern welfare state first took shape He analyses the roles of social workers women s groups labour and the left federal provincial and local welfare bureaucrats and the poor themselves The Story evolves through depression war and unprecedented postwar affluence A wealth of detail supports this account of all the forces that have shaped welfare policy bureaucratic imperatives political professionals the unemployed labour unions federal-provincial relations provincial-municipal relations and the spirit of the times Based on extensive primary research this definitive work covers much new ground providing an indispensable reference on Ontario s social welfare history The Ontario Historical Studies SeriesEarly Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800 - 1914 (The Royal Society of Canada Special Publications)
By Anne Saddlemyer. 1990
A circus, a production of Shakespeare, an evening of song and ventriloquism, a performance by a ‘learned pig’ – all…
of these offered an evening’s entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada. Although the population in 1800 was only 90,000, a wide range of entertainers performed in towns across the province: touring companies, variety and animal acts, and theatrical troupes, professional and amateur, some home-grown and based in the garrisons, others from Montreal, New York, and London. By the end of the century, some 250 touring groups were on the road across Ontario, from Ottawa to Rat Portage (now Kenora). The lively theatre tradition of that century would extend into the next, beyond the appointment in 1913 of Ontario’s first official censor, until the outbreak the following year of the First World War. This collection of essays covers a number of facets of the growth of theatre in Ontario. Ann Saddlemyer’s introduction provides an overview of the period, and historian J.M.S. Careless focuses on the cultural environment. Novelist Robertson Davies writes on the dramatic repertoire of the period. Architect Robert Fairfield explores the structures that housed performances, from the small community halls to the grand opera houses. Theatre scholar and professional actor and director Geralrd Lenton-Young discusses variety performances. Leslie O’Dell, scholar, actor, and playwright, writes on garrison theatre, while Mary M. Brown, a teacher, actress, and director, covers travelling troupes. A chronology and bibliography, both by the theatre scholar Richard Plant, complete the work. A second volume, scheduled for future publication, will look at the development of theatre in Ontario in the twentieth century. (Ontario Historical Studies Series)Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s
By Cecilia Morgan. 2016
Commemorating Canada is a concise narrative overview of the development of history and commemoration in Canada, designed for use in…
courses on public history, historical memory, heritage preservation, and related areas.Examining why, when, where, and for whom historical narratives have been important, Cecilia Morgan describes the growth of historical pageantry, popular history, textbooks, historical societies, museums, and monuments through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Showing how Canadians have clashed over conflicting interpretations of history and how they have come together to create shared histories, she demonstrates the importance of history in shaping Canadian identity. Though public history in both French and English Canada was written predominantly by white, middle-class men, Morgan also discusses the activism and agency of women, immigrants, and Indigenous peoples. The book concludes with a brief examination of present-day debates over Canada's history and Canadians' continuing interest in their pasts.Based on four years of research in the French-Canadian press of the 1840s and the private papers of the main…
French-Canadian politicians British officials and Roman Catholic religious leaders this book describes in rich and lively detail the conflict of French Canada s priests and politicians around the central issue of their people s relation to the British Crown during that period Confederation in 1867 modern Canada and the current tempest in French Canada cannot adequately be understood without constant reference to these men of the 1840s and the political and religious ideologies they represented Indeed it was in their enmities in their friendships and loyalties that were laid the strongbi-national foundations of what Etienne Parent foresaw as une grande nationalit canadienne assez forte pour se prot ger elle-m me et vivre de sa propre vieContinuing problems in the Canadian economy have been the occasion of a partisan debate between nationalists and continentalists both…
of whom claim the staples thesis to be the premise of their proposed solutions As one of the principal progenitors of that premise Harold Innis contributed much to the roots of this debate and its present flowering cannot be understood apart from what he had to say This is an account of the Canadian problem as it was elaborated in the staples thesis of H A Innis But it is more than that In order to cope with the economics of a satellite country in the age of machine and post-machine industry Innis found it necessary to fill in the empty boxes of neoclassical value theory and at times to make new ones when the standard theory provided insufficient room to contain the facts of the case He went beyond price theory to come to grips with the unsolved problems of growth and to work out answers of his own The result was a new kind of economics based as was the economics of J M Keynes on the assertion of a new ethical foundation Unlike Keynes Innis was concerned with the long run for we can survive now only by understanding the coping with the long-run consequences of past policies and given the right policies now the nation as a whole will live on Innis and Keynes are like two sides of a coin in the new issue of value theory We can flip that coin to see which policy will come up or we can account for both sides in some sort of rational compromise A New Theory of Value is a plea for a rational approach to the problemThe history of the north-shore railways provides a case study in the complexities of industrial development in nineteenth-century Quebec …
Constructed in the fifteen years following Confederation the North Shore and the Montreal Colonization Railways reinforced Quebec s integration into a transcontinental unit Yet bankruptcy of both companies in 1875 forced the provincial government to assume ownership of the railways and to shoulder a financial burden that kept the province preoccupied weak and subservient to Ottawa Diverse political clerical and business interests united to construct the railways and to manoeuvre them from private companies into a public venture and ultimately into the Canadian Pacific system The two railways brought new concentrations of capital and power that cut across French and English ethnic lines and sharpened regional rivalries Along the south short of the St Lawrence both French- and English-speaking inhabitants protested against the province s commitments to its north-shore railways By the late 1870s Quebec City s English community was lobbying hard against the growing power of their English-speaking counterparts in Montreal The north-shore railways plagued a generation of Quebec politicians and their construction bared incompatible regional aspirations By 1885 years of negotiation scandal and political blackmail culminated in the incorporation of the two north-shore railways into the Canadian Pacific system As this study so clearly demonstrates Quebec paid a high price in making its contribution to linking Canada by steel a mari usque ad mareDisparity and division in religion, technology and ideology have characterized relations between English-Canadian and Indian cultures through-out Canada's history. From…
the earliest declaration of white territorial ownership to the current debate on aboriginal rights, red man and white man have had opposing principles and perspectives. The most common 'solutions' imposed on these conflicts by white men have relegated the Indian to the fringes of white society and consciousness. This survey of English-Canadian literature is the first comprehensive examination of a tradition in which white writers turn to the Indian and his culture for standards and models by which they can measure their own values and goals; for patterns of cultural destruction, transformation, and survival; and for sources of native heroes and indigenous myths. Leslie Monkman examines images of the Indian as they appear in works raning from Robert Rogers' Ponteach, or The Savages of America (1766) to Robertson Davies' 'Pontiac and the Green Man' (1977), demonstrating how English-Canadian writers have illuminated their own world through reference to Indian culture. The Indian has been seen as an antagonist, as a superior alternative, as a member of a vanishing and lamented race, and as a hero and the source of the new myths. Although white/Indian tension often lies in apparently irreconcilable opposites, Monkman finds in the literature surveyed complementary images reflecting a common humanity.This is an important contribution to a hitherto unexplored area of Canadian literature in English which should give rise to further elaboration of this major theme.Regulating Professions: The Emergence of Professional Self-Regulation in Four Canadian Provinces
By Tracey L Adams. 2018
Self-regulation has long been at the core of sociological understandings of what it means to be a profession …
However the historical processes resulting in the formation of self-regulating professions have not been well understood In Regulating Professions Tracey L Adams explores the emergence of self-regulating professions in British Columbia Ontario Quebec and Nova Scotia from Confederation to 1940 Adams s in-depth research reveals the backstory of those occupations deemed worthy to regulate such as medicine law dentistry and land surveying and how they were regulated Adams evaluates sociological explanations for professionalization and its regulation by analysing their applicability to the Canadian experience and especially the role played by the state By considering the role of all those involved in creating the professional landscape in Canada Adams provides a clear picture of the process and illuminates how important this has been in building Canadian institutions and societyThe Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo
By Gary May. 2005
Historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by…
members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King's historic Voting Rights March in 1965. The case drew national attention and was solved almost instantly, because one of the Klansman present during the shooting was Gary Thomas Rowe, an undercover FBI informant. At the time, Rowe's information and subsequent testimony were heralded as a triumph of law enforcement. But as Gary May reveals in this provocative and powerful book, Rowe's history of collaboration with both the Klan and the FBI was far more complex. Based on previously unexamined FBI and Justice Department Records,The Informant demonstrates that in their ongoing efforts to protect Rowe's cover, the FBI knowingly became an accessory to some of the most grotesque crimes of the Civil Rights era--including a vicious attack on the Freedom Riders and perhaps even the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. A tale of a renegade informant and an intelligence system ill-prepared to deal with threats from within,The Informant offers a dramatic and cautionary tale about what can happen when secret police power goes unchecked.The labourers at the heart of this study built the canals and railways undertaken as public works by the colonial…
governments of British North America and the federal government of Canada between 1841 and 1882. Ruth Bleasdale’s fascinating journey into the little-known lives of these labourers and their families reveals how capital, labour and the state came together to build the transportation infrastructure that linked colonies and united an emerging nation. Combining census and community records, government documents, and newspaper archives Bleasdale elucidates the ways in which successive governments and branches of the state intervened between labour and capital and in labourers’ lives. Case studies capture the remarkable diversity across regions and time in a labour force drawn from local and international labour markets. The stories here illuminate the ways in which men and women experienced the emergence of industrial capitalism and the complex ties which bound them to local and transnational communities. Rough Work is an accessibly written yet rigorous study of the galvanization of a major segment of Canada’s labour force over four decades of social and economic transformation.First published in 1989, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens continues to earn wide acclaim for its comprehensive account of Native-newcomer relations…
throughout Canada’s history. Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current displacement and marginalization of the Indigenous population. The fourth edition of Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens is the result of considerable revision and expansion to incorporate current scholarship and developments over the past twenty years in federal government policy and Aboriginal political organization. It includes new information regarding political organization, land claims in the courts, public debates, as well as the haunting legacy of residential schools in Canada. Critical to Canadian university-level classes in history, Indigenous studies, sociology, education, and law, the fourth edition of Skyscrapers will be also be useful to journalists and lawyers, as well as leaders of organizations dealing with Indigenous issues. Not solely a text for specialists in post-secondary institutions, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens explores the consequence of altered Native-newcomer relations, from cooperation to coercion, and the lasting legacy of this impasse.Tales of the Alaska State Troopers
By Peter B. Mathiesen. 2015
With the elements against them, the state troopers of Alaska face every day with a fight for their lives.In the…
state of Alaska, anything goes. For the state troopers, an average day can include blizzard conditions, midnight sunsets, and subzero temperatures. Tales of the Alaska State Troopers gives insight to just how the brave men and women of the law combat these conditions while still upholding their duties to the fine people of Alaska.Follow trooper Dan Valentine as he finds himself in the midst of a crisis when an abandoned truck holds more than just an old blanket on the passenger seat. Dan's responsibility for the town of Trapper Creek becomes a fight for survival when he realizes the truck has enough explosives in it to make a small dent in the Alaska Range. With his fellow lawmen, Valentine not only must handle the situation, but he must also make sure that the citizens of Trapper Creek are evacuated from harm's way.Tales of the Alaska State Troopers is rich in content and action. Anyone familiar with the life of a lawman or the state of Alaska will be fascinated with the way Mathiesen delivers his narrative. It's all in a day's work for troopers like Dan Valentine, who never know what a new day can bring.The Quest for Drug Control: Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse, 1963-1981
By David F. Musto, Pamela Korsmeyer. 2002
Between 1960 and 1980 various administrations attempted to deal with a rising tide of illicit drug use that was unprecedented…
in U. S. history. This valuable book provides a close look at the politics and bureaucracy of drug control policy during those years, showing how they changed during the presidencies of Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter and how much current federal drug-control policies owe to those earlier efforts. David F. Musto, M. D. , and Pamela Korsmeyer base their analysis on a unique collection of 5,000 pages of White House documents from the period, all of which are included on a searchable CD-ROM that accompanies the book. These documents reveal the intense debates that took place over drug policy. They show, for example, that staffers and cabinet officers who were charged with narcotics policy were often influenced by the cultural currents of their times, and when the public reacted in an extreme fashion to rising drug use, officials were disinclined to adopt modified policies that might have been more realistic. Musto and Korsmeyer's investigation into the decision-making processes that shaped past drug control efforts in the United States provides essential background as creative approaches to the drug problem are sought for the future.Mike
By Rt. Hon. Pearson, Rt. Hon. Chretien. 2015
One of Canada's most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in…
rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. This third and final volume of his memoirs follows him from his years of triumph as a Canadian diplomat to his retirement from politics and the passing of the Liberal torch to Pierre Elliott Trudeau.Completed after Pearson's death under the supervision of his son Geoffrey, this volume of Mike covers Pearson's election as leader of the Liberal Party, his years in opposition to the Diefenbaker government, and his achievements as prime minister: a list that included the establishment of the Canada Pension Plan, universal medicare, the Auto Pact, and a new Canadian flag.Mike captures Pearson's intellect, his sense of humour, and his humanity, offering an inside look at the decisions that shaped Canada in the twentieth century. This new edition features a foreword by Pearson cabinet minister and former prime minister Jean Chrétien.The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America (The Asian American Experience)
By Christine Kim. 2016
An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia…
that answered this symbolic move toward inclusiveness revealed the nation's trumpeted commitment to multiculturalism as a lie. It also showed how multiple minor publics as well as the dominant public responded to the ongoing issue of race in Canada. In this new study, Christine Kim delves into the ways cultural conversations minimize race's relevance even as violent expressions and structural forms of racism continue to occur. Kim turns to literary texts, artistic works, and media debates to highlight the struggles of minor publics with social intimacy. Her insightful engagement with everyday conversations as well as artistic expressions that invoke the figure of the Asian allows Kim to reveal the affective dimensions of racialized publics. It also extends ongoing critical conversations within Asian Canadian and Asian American studies about Orientalism, diasporic memory, racialized citizenship, and migration and human rights.Shots on the Bridge
By Ronnie Greene. 2015
A harrowing story of blue on black violence, of black lives that seemingly did not matter.On September 4, 2005, six…
days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, two groups of people intersected on the Danziger Bridge, a low-rising expanse over the Industrial Canal. One was the police who had stayed behind as Katrina roared near, desperate to maintain control as their city spun into chaos. The other was the residents forced to stay behind with them during the storm and, on that fateful Sunday, searching for the basics of survival: food, medicine, security. They collided that morning in a frenzy of gunfire.When the shooting stopped, a gentle forty-year-old man with the mind of a child lay slumped on the ground, seven bullet wounds in his back, his white shirt turned red. A seventeen-year-old was riddled with gunfire from his heel to his head. A mother's arm was blown off; her daughter's stomach gouged by a bullet. Her husband's head was pierced by shrapnel. Her nephew was shot in the neck, jaw, stomach, and hand. Like all the other victims, he was black--and unarmed.Before the blood had dried on the pavement, the shooters, each a member of the New Orleans Police Department, and their supervisors hatched a cover-up. They planted a gun, invented witnesses, and charged two of their victims with attempted murder. At the NOPD, they were hailed as heroes. Shots on the Bridge explores one of the most dramatic cases of police violence seen in our country in the last decade--the massacre of innocent people, carried out by members of the NOPD, in the brutal, disorderly days following Hurricane Katrina. It reveals the fear that gripped the police of a city slid into anarchy, the circumstances that drove desperate survivors to the bridge, and the horror that erupted when the police opened fire. It carefully unearths the cover-up that nearly buried the truth. And finally, it traces the legal maze that, a decade later, leaves the victims and their loved ones still searching for justice. This is the story of how the people meant to protect and serve citizens can do violence, hide their tracks, and work the legal system as the nation awaits justice.From the Hardcover edition.International Drug Control
By David R. Bewley-Taylor. 2012
There remains substantial agreement among the international community on many aspects of the contemporary UN drug control regime. However, diverging…
views on the non-medical and non-scientific use of a range of controlled substances make drug policy an increasingly contested and transitionary field of multinational cooperation. Employing a fine-grained and interdisciplinary approach, this book provides the first integrated analysis of the sources, manifestations and sometimes paradoxical implications of this divergence. The author develops an original explanatory framework through which to understand better the dynamic and tense intersection between policy shifts at varying levels of governance and the regime's core prohibitive norm. Highlighting the centrality of the harm reduction approach and tolerant cannabis policies to an ongoing process of regime transformation, this book examines the efforts of those actors seeking to defend the existing international control framework and explores rationales and scenarios which may lead to the international community moving beyond it.The most important Canadian in the First World War, Arthur Currie was an extraordinary successful field commander in a war…
that produced few successful generals. In this biography A.M.J. Hyatt recalls the military career of a remarkable man. Currie's achievements were realized in spite of some formidable obstacles. He was not a professional soldier, having been a civilian before the war. He entered the war under the shadow of a scandal, which, had it been disclosed at the time, would certainly have brought public disgrace. He was not a charismatic man; he had none of the personal flair of so many successful military leaders. In many ways these apparently negative factors make his story all the more remarkable, the secret of his success the more intriguing. That secret, as Hyatt explains, was a fine sense of tactics: Currie, the 'amateur' soldier, had all the instincts of a dedicated professional, and he used them to minimize the destruction of the young Canadian troops under his command. When the war was over Currie returned to civilian life, and was knighted for his service. This biography offers the first balanced account of a central figure in Canadian military history.The Government of Nova Scotia (Canadian Government Series #8)
By James Murray Beck. 1957
Here is a well-documented study of the structure, historical development, and present condition of the government of Nova Scotia. It…
deals with one of the oldest constitutions in Canada, one which was not created by statute but by the prerogative of the Crown. Nova Scotia has two major claims to priority in the history of Canadian politics: she was the first province to be granted representative institutions and the first to win responsible government. Owing in large measure to Joseph Howe's inspired leadership, the latter was achieved through peaceful, constitutional means. It is obvious that a study of the government of Nova Scotia must dig deep into the past, and Dr. Beck has investigated this early history with great care and thoroughness. This is followed by a study of the more recent period and the working of the government of our own time. The author demonstrates that the important changes, the interesting practices, and the colourful incidents have not all been in the distant past. There was, for example, the Legislative Council, that travesty on democratic institutions which lasted until less than thirty years ago. There was the odd phenomenon of a Liberal government in power for seventy out of ninety years since Confederation. There was the constant need to adapt parliamentary practices and institutions, developed under quite different conditions to the needs of a much smaller community, and one which was keenly aware of its heritage and very jealous of any serious interference.As a native of Nova Scotia and a political scientist, Dr. Beck has had a special interest in seeing how the Nova Scotian institutions of government evolved and how they work today. He has done a great deal of original research among primary sources and covered a field as yet uninvestigated by any other scholar. An admirable addition to the Canadian Government Series, of which it is the eighth volume, this is a book for serious students of political science and for students of Nova Scotia history.