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History General

Canadian Issues

A Contemporary Perspective

by (author) Daniel Francis, Jennifer Hobson, Gordon Smith, Stan Garrod & Jeff Smith

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
May 1998
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780195411348
    Publish Date
    May 1998
    List Price
    $101.19

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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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