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Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "a nation of immigrants," as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, an

Post-Stalinism - the last three decades of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - gave birth to new political ideas and social struggles, which reshaped socialist societies and forged n

Constitutional politics is exceptionally intense and unpredictable. It involves negotiations over the very nature of the state and the implications of self- determination.

In the making of the modern Nordic states in the first half of the twentieth century, elementary education was paramount in creating a notion of citizenship that was universal and equal for all cit

Falling between the 'War of Movement' in 1914 and the major attrition battles of 1916, 1915 was a critical year in the First World War.

A country's abundant natural resources may serve as a curse or a blessing, with the outcome often dependent on prevailing governance structures and experience managing these assets.

Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers and most famously associated with the concept of weak thought, explores theoretical and practical issues flowing from his fun

Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canadais a study of colonial

Anton Chekhov's representations of children have generally remained on the periphery of scholarly attention.

Attending - patient contemplation focused on a particular being - is a central ethical activity that has not been recognized by any of the main moral systems in the European philosophical tradition

In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975.

in the poem / of the world / there once / was a map / of the map / composed in / the likeness / of a poemIn this riddling and seeking book of poems, Edward Carson navigates the emotional, often con

In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making

No other figure, historical or political, features more prominently in recent Newfoundland history than Joey Smallwood.

Alongside the major narratives of ethics in the tradition of Western philosophy, a reader with an eye to the vague and the peripheral, to the turbulent and shifting, will spy minor lines of thinkin