Canadian Issues
A Contemporary Perspective
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 1998
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780195411348
- Publish Date
- May 1998
- List Price
- $101.19
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Description
This text is a summary of narrative twentieth-century Canadian history underpinning critical historical issues and events. Major themes addressed include: Economics, Defence, Growth of National Independence, Regional Differences, the Role of Women, and Politics and Immigration.
About the authors
Daniel Francis is an historian and the author/editor of more than twenty books, including five for Arsenal Pulp Press: The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture , National Dreams: Myth, Memory and Canadian History, LD: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver (winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award), Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror and Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction. His other books include A Road for Canada, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver's Sex Trade, Copying People: Photographing British Columbia First Nations 1860-1940, The Great Chase: A History of World Whaling, New Beginnings: A Social History of Canada, and the popular Encyclopedia of British Columbia. He is also a regular columnist in Geist magazine, and was shortlisted for Canada's History Pierre Berton Award in 2010. Daniel lives in North Vancouver, BC.
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Gordon Smith is a Vancouver painter and printmaker whose international reputation rests on his abstracted images of the Canadian landscape. His work can be found in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and the National Gallery of Canada.
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A History
Where Mountains Meet the Sea
An Illustrated History of the District of North Vancouver
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Selling Canada
Immigrants, soldiers, tourists, and the building of our nation
Trucking in British Columbia
An Illustrated History
A Road for Canada
The Illustrated Story of the Trans-Canada Highway
Who Killed Janet Smith?
The Imaginary Indian
The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture
Selling Canada
Three propaganda campaigns that shaped the nation
Seeing Reds
The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror
