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The book documents NAC's evolution as a 'parliament of women.' It shows how the organization moved from a fairly narrow status-of-women focus in its policies to a broadly conceived policy framework that linked such apparently sex-neutral issues as free trade, federalism, and taxation to feminism.

Garth Stevenson provides a comprehensive analysis of recent policy in domestic air transport, examining the technological and social changes that have influenced policy, and how policy has in turn contributed to those changes.

The late Professor Ramos exposes the failure of social science in general to deal adequately with the needs of humanity in search of a meaning and order of existence and presents and alternative, a new science of organizations which address the problems of ordering social and personal affairs.

City Politics in Canada offers a new perspective on Canadian municipal politics. It concerns the practice of politics at the local level. Its focus, moreover, is on seven specific political systems at the heart of what are arguably the most important metropolitan areas in Canada.

The United Steelworkers of America opened Canada's first community health centre in Sault Ste Marie in 1958. The history of that centre provides a unique view of developments in health care delivery in Ontario over the past twenty-five years.

Read examines the states of society in the western ear of the Gore district and much of the London district, including settlement and the national and religious backgrounds of the inhabitants, and the types of society and economy they evolved.

This is a small book of commonsense advice to authors and editors - how to practise their own crafts successfully, and how they may work most effectively with one another.

Six experts guide the reader through the maze of historical writing about pre-Confederation Canada with a critical assessment of the best and most useful articles, papers, and books that have been published.

The Liberal party has shown a marked failure to hold a place in the hearts and minds of the voters of Western Canada. Professor Smith here argues convincingly that the party is largely the author of its own downfall through insensitivity to regional concerns and ignorance of the implications of its centralizing tendencies.

Elizabeth Smith's diaries are a rare expression of female experience, all the more valuable as the writer is articulate, sensitive, and out-spoken. They cover a critical period in the 1870s and 1880s.

The is the first collection translated into English of what critics are saying in French about Quebec writing. Ten carefully selected articles are arranged under the heading of 'backgronds' and 'themes and genres.'

Although it thus stands apart from the mainstream of North American views of federalism, Proudhon's book raises questions which are posed by any federal arrangement and builds significant political tensions into the concept of federalism itself.

This study examines three areas of Irish settlement -- the Avalon peninsula, Miramichi, and Peterborough -- in terms of how their traditional farming methods, building styles, implements, settlement morphology, and other aspects of their culture were transferred, maintained, altered, or adapted in the new setting.

This book seeks to explain the emergence of the modern interventionist state as the product of competing claims on the state by manufacturers, industrial workers, and farmers, each responding to the structural imperatives of the Canadian economy.

This volume evaluates the basis of current issues of public concern and debate and constructs an agenda for future research, policy, and practice concerning children and families.

Rapid changes in urban life are continually reshaping the physical and social environment of the city. This book represents the thinking of a number of leading experts on a variety of topics related to the impact of contemporary urban life on children.

The establishment of responsible government in western Canada is still in process in Canada's northern territories, and in this new edition Professor Thomas discusses the implications of the western experience for present political and constitutional questions.

The Canadian State is a powerful collection of essays. Leo Panitch's theme essay, dealing with the theories of recent neo-Marxist thinkers on the nature and role of the state and sketching their relevance to Canada, sets the tone and interpretation of the whole work, which thus has a rare unity and cohesion.

This book examines Jewish history against the background of the successive kingdoms which controlled Judea. The author discusses the political situation in Judea and the social and economic conditions in so far as we can know then, and the early literary and religious developments.

The Government Party traces the evolution of the party structure with special emphasis on organization both during and between elections, the relationship of the party organization to the parliamentary leadership, and the connections between the party and corporate capitalism through the mechanisms of party finance.

Carl Klinck's introduction places the novel in the contexts of the events of Wacousta and the author's life, and traces its history, discussing briefly the differences between the original version and the Americanized edition, retitled Matilda Montgomerie (1851).

Alexander McLachlan in an eminent though neglected figure in early Canadian literature, and this reprint brings to the attention of Canadians today his representative work.

The transcript of Louis Riel's trial has never been readily accessible to the general reader interested in the 1885 Rebellion and related events. This work will promote knowledge of the facts, and illustrate a social phenomenon of nineteenth-century Canada.

In this study Dr. Schiffer explores the sources and ingredients of the power of charisma. He theorizes that the image of the idealized man or charismatic leader is created by the populace at large.

In The Homesteaders, Stead stresses the importance of pioneer life, its heroic and ideal qualities, as part of a unifying national tradition. It is valuable as pioneering literary work, part of the slow evolution of Canadian literature from escapist romance to conscious examination of national life.

This volume includes The Poems of Archibald Lampman, a collection of 237 opems edited with a memoir by Duncan Campbell Scott after Lampman's death, and At the Long Sault and Other New Poems, which was hailed, when it first appeared in 1943, as 'the literary discovery of the year.'

This series is original in its purpose of the re-evaluating the regional geography of Canada. These studies should contribute to a better understanding, among scholars, students, and the people of Canada, of the geography of their land.

The 306 items included in this volume were drawn together as an exhibition to celebrate the centennial of the founding of the Archives. They are organized around thirty-seven themes: each item is fully described and an explanatory note is added where necessary.

Sects, Cult, and Church in Alberta documents a disturned population and its experiences with religion. It is valuable both for its factual descriptions and its religious and sociological insights.

There is a richness and distinctiveness to the vast range of topics, events, issues, and ideas that comprise a nation's social history. The demands for material relevant to Canadian social history have been matched only by the frustrations raised by the inaccessibility. It is the purpose of this new series to help meet these demands.