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Dundurn railroad
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ISBN: 1459736818 Year: 2015 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario ; Lancaster, England : Dundurn : Gazelle Book Services Limited,

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Dundurn railroad
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ISBN: 1459733037 Year: 2015 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario ; Lancaster, England : Dundurn : Gazelle Book Services Limited,

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Canada : the state of the federation 2012 : regions, resources, and resiliency
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ISBN: 1553392116 1553392124 9781553392125 9781553392101 1553392108 9781553392118 Year: 2015 Publisher: Montreal, [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Regional resource disparities and the tensions they generate are a perennial Canadian topic. This edition of Canada: The State of the Federation presents essays on regions, resources, and the resiliency of the Canadian federal system. Contributors consider questions such as: to what extent do Canada’s natural resource industries benefit the Canadian economy? Do Canada’s federal institutions hinder or promote the ability of the economy to respond to global economic shifts? Do current intergovernmental structures allow for constructive dialogue about national policy issues? In responding to these and related questions, many of the authors touch on energy issues. Others consider the importance of functional institutions in a federal or multilevel context as an essential requirement for the effective resolution of issues. Together, the volume raises questions about the relationship of state and society, the importance of identity, trust, and moral legitimacy for the operation of our federal institutions, and the extent to which federal institutions are reinforced or placed under stress by societal structures. The theme of this volume was triggered by Richard Simeon, the outstanding scholar of federalism who passed away in October 2013, and it is dedicated in his honour.


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Reclaiming Canadian Bodies : Visual Media and Representation
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ISBN: 1554589924 1554589916 9781554589913 9781554589920 9781554589838 Year: 2015 Publisher: Waterloo, Onatario : Ottawa, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canadian Electronic Library,

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The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations of bodies are constructed and performed within the context of visual and discursive mediated content. The book emphasizes the ways individuals destabilize national mainstream visual tropes, which in turn have the potential to destabilize nationalist messages.Drawing upon rich empirical research and relevant theory, the contributors ask how and why particular bodies (of Estonian immigrants, sports stars, First Nations peoples, self-identified homosexuals, and women) are either promoted and upheld as "Canadian" bodies while others are marginalized in or excluded from media representations. Essays are grouped into three sections: Embodied Ideals, The Embodiment of "Others," and Embodied Activism and Advocacy. Written in an accessible style for a broad audience of scholars and students, this volume is original within the field of visual media, affect theory, and embodiment due to its emphasis on detailed empirical and, in some cases, ethnographic research within a Canadian context.


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Made-in-Canada humour : literary, folk and popular culture
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ISBN: 9789027268174 9027268177 9789027202307 9027202303 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company,


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Magazines, travel, and middlebrow culture : Canadian periodicals in English and French, 1925-1960
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ISBN: 1781382336 1781384657 1781381402 9781781384657 9781781381403 Year: 2015 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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A century ago, the golden age of magazine publishing coincided with the beginning of a golden age of travel. Images of speed and flight dominated the pages of the new mass-market periodicals. Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture centres on Canada, where commercial magazines began to flourish in the 1920s alongside an expanding network of luxury railway hotels and transatlantic liner routes. The leading monthlies - among them Mayfair, Chatelaine, and La Revue Moderne - presented travel as both a mode of self-improvement and a way of negotiating national identity.This book announces a new cross-cultural approach to periodical studies, reading both French- and English-language magazines in relation to an emerging transatlantic middlebrow culture. Mainstream magazines, Hammill and Smith argue, forged a connection between upward mobility and geographical mobility. Fantasies of travel were circulated through fiction, articles, and advertisements, and used to sell fashions, foods, and domestic products as well as holidays. For readers who could not afford a trip to Paris, Bermuda, or Lake Louise, these illustrated magazines offered proxy access to the glamour and prestige increasingly associated with travel.

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