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Book Citizens Plus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan C. Cairns
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 0774841354
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Citizens Plus written by Alan C. Cairns and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Citizens Plus, Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state. He considers the assimilationist policy assumptions of the imperial era, examines more recent government initiatives, and analyzes the emergence of the nation-to-nation paradigm given massive support by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. We are battered by contending visions, he argues - a revised assimilation policy that finds its support in the Canadian Alliance Party is countered by the nation-to-nation vision, which frames our future as coexisting solitudes. Citizens Plus stakes out a middle ground with its support for constitutional and institutional arrangements which will simultaneously recognize Aboriginal difference and reinforce a solidarity which binds us together in common citizenship. Selected as a BC Book for Everybody

Book Canada s Founding Debates

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Ajzenstat
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2017-06-21
  • ISBN : 1487516703
  • Pages : 533 pages

Download or read book Canada s Founding Debates written by Janet Ajzenstat and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's Founding Debates is about Confederation—about the process that brought together six out of the seven territories of British North America in the years 1864-73 to form a country called Canada. It presents excerpts from the debates on Confederation in all of the colonial parliaments from Newfoundland to British Columbia and in the constituent assembly of the Red River Colony. The voices of the powerful and those of lesser note mingle in impassioned debate on the pros and cons of creating or joining the new country, and in defining its nature. In short explanatory essays and provocative annotations, the editors sketch the historical context of the debates and draw out the significance of what was said. By organizing the debates thematically, they bring out the depth of the founders' concern for issues that are as vital today as they were then: the meaning of liberty, the merits of democracy, the best form of self-government, the tension between collective and individual rights, the rule of law, the requirements of political leadership, and, of course, the nature of Canadian nationality. Canada's Founding Debates offers a fresh and often surprising perspective on Canada's origins, history, and political character. Previously published by Stoddart Publishing, 1999.

Book The Nation in History

Download or read book The Nation in History written by Anthony D. Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history. In a wide-ranging analysis of the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and others, he argues that there are three key issues which have shaped debates in this field: first, the nature and origin of nations and nationalism; second, the antiquity or modernity of nations and nationalism; and third, the role of nations and nationalism in historical, and especially recent, social change. Anthony Smith provides an incisive critique of the debate between modernists, perennialists and primordialists over the origins, development and contemporary significance of nations and nationalism. Drawing on a wide range of examples from antiquity and the medieval epoch, as well as the modern world, he develops a distinctive ethnosymbolic account of nations and nationalism. This important book by one of the world's leading authorities on nationalism and ethnicity will be of particular interest to students and scholars in history, sociology and politics.

Book A Border Within

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian H. Angus
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780773516533
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book A Border Within written by Ian H. Angus and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Border Within addresses the question of English Canadian identity by exploring whether a plurality of discourses can lead to other than a fragmented society. Ian Angus examines the relationship between globalizing social movements and the particularities of identity politics by extending the theories on identity of Harold Innis and George Grant, two seminal figures in Canadian political philosophy, to develop a philosophy applicable to the contemporary social issues of multiculturalism and environmentalism.

Book Nationalism  Its Meaning and History

Download or read book Nationalism Its Meaning and History written by Hans Kohn and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold. This book was released on 1965 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: Rev. ed. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand 1965. (An Anvil original; 8)

Book Careless at Work

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  • Author : James Maurice Stockford Careless
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 1550020676
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Careless at Work written by James Maurice Stockford Careless and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1990 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from 1940 to 1990 in the long and distinguished career of one of Canada's best-known historians. In Careless's own words, History is dated. Its very claim is that the past does not fade into nothing but continues to matter, whether or not the purely present-minded are able to recognize that basic fact. These essays cover the main lines of Careless's career in Canadian scholarship. The collection is divided into four general subject areas each covering a main preoccupation in a distinguished career of over forty years. The first section concentrates on the earliest theme in his writing, George Brown and his times. The second centres on exploring various aspects of frontierism and metropolitanism in Canadian history. The third part deals with cities and regions focusing particularly on the West and nineteenth century Ontario. The final section picks up the threads of other themes including limited identities Canada and multiculturalism.

Book Le Conseil Pour la Prise en Charge de la Sant   Maternelle Et N  onatale

Download or read book Le Conseil Pour la Prise en Charge de la Sant Maternelle Et N onatale written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2011-01-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le but principal de ce manuel "Le conseil pour la prise en charge de la santé maternelle et néonatale (SMN)" est de renforcer les compétences en conseil et en communication des agents de santé, dont les personnes qualifiées, en les aidant à discuter efficacement avec les femmes, leur mari/partenaire, leur famille et leur communauté, des questions importantes entourant la grossesse, l'accouchement, le postpartum, la période postnatale et après un avortement. Les informations principales comprises dans le manuel de prise en charge clinique intitulé "Soins liés à la grossesse, à l'accouchement et à la période néonatale. Guide de pratiques essentielles (SGAN) y ont été intégrées. Le manuel se fonde sur une approche d'apprentissage autogéré du conseil. Bien qu'il soit conçu pour être utilisé par un groupe d'agents de santé avec l'aide d'un animateur, il peut également être utilisé par un utilisateur individuel. Toutes les sessions thématiques contiennent des buts et des objectifs spécifiques, qui décrivent clairement les compétences qui seront développées et les apprentissages correspondants qui en résultent. Des activités pratiques ont été conçues pour encourager la réflexion, provoquer des discussions, établir des compétences et assurer la pertinence locale de l'information. A la fin de chaque session se trouve un récapitulatif pour s'assurer que l'étudiant a compris les points clés avant de passer aux sessions suivantes.

Book The Faces of Reason

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leslie Armour
  • Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • Release : 1981-12-14
  • ISBN : 0889201072
  • Pages : 575 pages

Download or read book The Faces of Reason written by Leslie Armour and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1981-12-14 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Faces of Reason traces the history of philosophy in English Canada from 1850 to 1950, examining the major English-Canadian philosophers in detail adn setting them in the context of the main currents of Canadian thought. The book concludes with a brief survey of the period after 1950. What is distinctive in Canadian philosophy, say the authors, is the concept of reason and the uses to which it is put. Reason has interacted with experience in a new world and a cold climate to create a distinctive Canadian community. The diversity of political, geographic, social, and religious factors has fostered a particular kind of thinking, particular ways of reasoning and communicating. Rather than one grand, overarching Canadian way of thinking, there are “many faces of reason,” “a kind of philosophic federalism”. The book has two dimensions: “ it is a continuos story which makes a point about the development of philosophical reason in the Canadian context....it is a reference work which may be consulted by readers interested in particular figures, ideas, movements, or periods.”

Book The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism

Download or read book The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism written by Samuel Victor LaSelva and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LaSelva offers a compelling reconsideration of Confederation and of the pivotal role of George-Etienne Cartier, one of the Fathers of Confederation, in both the achievement of confederation and the creation of a distinctively Canadian federalist theory.

Book Technique and Enlightenment

Download or read book Technique and Enlightenment written by Ian H. Angus and published by Current Continental Research. This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, presents the argument that a philosophy of technology is a central component of a contemporary political philosophy. It provides a theoretical groundwork for the encounter of phenomenology and critical theory. Written for courses in social and political theory, phenomenology and critical theory.

Book Thinking English Canada

Download or read book Thinking English Canada written by Philip Resnick and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1994 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Freedom and Other Essays

Download or read book The History of Freedom and Other Essays written by John Neville Figgis and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book What is the Indian  problem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Noel Dyck
  • Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book What is the Indian problem written by Noel Dyck and published by St. John's, Nfld. : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examines past and present relations between Indians and the government in Canada, demonstrating the manner in which the Indian "problem" was created and how it has been maintained and exacerbated by the policies and administrative practices designed to solve it.

Book A Canadian Challenge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christian Dufour
  • Publisher : Lantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book A Canadian Challenge written by Christian Dufour and published by Lantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay deals with the Conquest of 1763, the Rebellion of 1837, and many other historical events. It is a political essay on contemporary Quebec and Canada. It describes two parameters. The first concerns the fact that Canada is profoundly dependent on the conquest of 1763, and its appropriation of the political consequences that flow spontaneously from Quebec's specificity. The second focuses on the fact that within the geopolitical context of North America, it is to Quebec's advantage to have a politically functional Canada.

Book The Ethics of Nationalism

Download or read book The Ethics of Nationalism written by Margaret Moore and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ethics of Nationalism blends a philosophical discussion of the ethical merits and limits of nationalism with a detailed understanding of nationalist aspirations and a variety of national conflict zones. The author discusses the controversial and contemporary issues of rights of secession, the policies of the state in privileging a particular national group, the kinds of accommodations of minority national, and multi cultural identity groups that are justifiable and appropriate. These insights are then applied to two central nationalist aspirations: nation-building and national self-determination projects. The discussion of nation-building projects invloves a theory of the appropriate policies and principles that the state should follow in giving preferences to a particular national group. The discussion of national self-determination projets analyses the kind of prodedual right to secession that should be institutionalized in domestic constitutions or international law, and the psooibilities for accomodation rival caims to national recognition in the changing international order.