Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers — black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant — in Charleston, SC, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson...
Economic history
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Auteur:Thompson, Michael D.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Davis, Angela Y.Sommaire:Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably...
- Auteur:Claessens, JacquesSommaire:
Every international development project looks good on paper until someone asks, "Who are you and why are you here?" In this case, it's a man from northern Burkina Faso. His question reveals everything wrong with...
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Auteur:Buday, GrantSommaire:Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize.
A blackly comic new novel from Vancouver author Grant Buday, based on his eight glorious years working in a mass production bakery. Dickensian in magnitude, White Lung is a sardonic...
- Auteur:Reynolds, John, Morneau, BillSommaire:
Bill Morneau’s experience as Canada’s finance minister crystalized his vision for the country’s potential for growth and prosperity. Where To from Here looks backward with coolness and candor and forward with a fresh vision of all that...
- Auteur:Granville, BrigitteSommaire:
As evidenced by the yellow vests protest movement that began in France in 2018, the state of the French nation inspires gloom among many of its citizens. Brigitte Granville views this malaise as a peculiarly French symptom of the...
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Auteur:Angus, Charlie, Griffin, Brit, Lawrence, Sally, Moir, RobSommaire:Based on in-depth oral interviews with local residents, and rich archival sources, We Lived A Life and Then Some relates the common person's struggle to overcome harsh working conditions and government neglect. The unique culture...
- Auteur:Sanderson, Douglas, Sniderman, Andrew Michael StoboSommaire:
A heartrending true story about racial injustice, residential schools and a path forward. Divided by a beautiful valley and 150 years of racism, the Waywayseecappo reserve and the town of Rossburn have been neighbours nearly as long as...
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Auteur:Galeano, EduardoSommaire: -
Auteur:Greer, John MichaelSommaire:Our destructive obsession with money and economic growth has driven us to the brink of disaster. This book exposes the flaws in conventional economic theory and shows how through public policy initiatives and personal choices the...
- Auteur:Harford, TimSommaire:
Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everything from supermarkets to insurance companies to airlines in this entertaining and informative book. To protect both our wallets and our bank accounts, we must better understand why...
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Auteur:North, Douglass CecilSommaire:First published in 1973, this is a radical interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, providing a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the...
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Auteur:Stern, Pamela, Hall, PeterSommaire:In 2001 the northern Ontario town of Cobalt won a competition to be named the province’s “Most Historic Town.” This honour came as Cobalters were also applying for and winning federal and provincial development grants to remake this...
- Auteur:Stiglitz, Joseph E.Sommaire:
A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. The top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation's wealth. But as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in this...
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Auteur:Thompson, Edgar Tristram, Mintz, Sidney W., Baca, GeorgeSommaire:A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, "The Plantation," broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted long-espoused climatic...
- Auteur:Sun, Irene YuanSommaire:
Will Africa be the world's next hub of manufacturing? China is answering in the affirmative and investing accordingly. This book dispels the notion that this crucial story is merely about China's exploitation of Africa's resources,...
- Auteur:Dietrich, JohnSommaire:
Contrary to what is often reported in history books, the Morgenthau Plan was a major element in postwar planning led by Washington, before the war was even over. This book traces the roles played by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of...
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Auteur:Baxter, JoanSommaire:For fifty years, the pulp mill near Pictou in northern Nova Scotia has buoyed the local economy and found support from governments at all levels. But it has also pulped millions of acres of forests, spewed millions of tonnes of noxious...
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Auteur:Shriver, LionelSommaire:In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war. Overnight, the "almighty dollar" plummets in value. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune, but once the inheritance turns to ash, each family member must...
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Auteur:Durkin, DouglasSommaire:Craig Forrester is newly home following World War I, newly married, and newly mired in social upheaval. Will he choose complacency alongside his peers, or his personal moral code? Originally published in 1923, The Magpie is a social...
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