Advanced Search

• 

  The Age of Mackenzie King

  Henry Ferns

  William Lyon Mackenzie King played a vital role in shaping Canadian politics, economics and international relations from 1900 to the present. His importance is indicated by the energy of Liberal party historians in creating an official version of life.

  $16.95, Paperback
• 

  The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty

  David Ross

  Published in 1975, this pamphlet looks at facts and figures regarding poverty in Canada.

  $30.00, Paperback
• 

  Let Us Prey

  Robert Chodos, Rae Murphy

  Adapted from articles originally published in the legendary Last Post magazine, Let Us Prey offers penetrating analyses of Canadian business in the early 1970s.

  $14.95, Paperback
• 

  On Strike

  Irving Abella

  First published in 1974, On Strike is a seminal work in Canadian labour history.

  $24.95, Paperback
• 

  Anatomy of Big Business

  Frank Park, Libbie Park

  First published in 1962, Anatomy of Big Business was long an influential portrait of power and control in the Canadian corporate economy.

  $14.95, Paperback
• 

  Grass Roots

  Heather Robertson, Myfanwy Phillips

  This book is an account of four modern prairie towns, of farming in Western Canada, and also describes how the West was settled and how its small towns are being depopulated by the same external economic forces controlled from Eastern Canada.

  $19.95, Paperback
• 

  A History of Canadian Wealth

  Gustavus Myers, Stanley Ryerson

  A landmark revisionist history of Canada, A History of Canadian Wealth remains as lively and startling as it was when first published in 1914.

  $14.95, Paperback
• 

  Corporate Canada

  Mark Starowicz, Rae Murphy

  Drawn largely from the pages of the legendary Last Post magazine, Corporate Canada offers a fascinating snapshot of the Canadian economy in the early 1970s.

  $3.75, Paperback
• 

  Forced Growth

  Philip Mathias, Abraham Rotstein

  Here is the amazing inside story of how unknown European promoters got $92 million from Manitoba governments to build a pulp and paper complex which was then called into receivership by the government and was the subject of a judicial enquiry.

  $14.95, Paperback
• 

  Working People

  James Lorimer, Myfanwy Phillips

  This book is a portrait of the people and events of a working-class Toronto neighbourhood under pressure from developers and middle-class renovators.

  $14.95, Paperback
• 

  The Real World of City Politics

  James Lorimer, Jane Jacobs

  The accounts given here, originally published in 1970, offer a lively portrait of development in Canada's largest city at a crucial period in its history.

  $14.95, Paperback
• 

  Who Pays?

  Charles Hanly

  This book looks at the way post-secondary education in Ontario is financed.At the opening of the 1970s, Canadian universities were riding the crest of an unprecedented wave of expansion. Charles Hanly took a critical look at how that expansion was funded--and in whose interest.

  $10.00, Hardcover