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The Vimy Trap

or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...

Narrated by John Lane ...

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The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”—today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... Read more

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The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”—today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics,
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From The Kaiser To Weimar

THE NAZIS, #1

by Ian McKay ...

Series Book 1 - THE NAZIS
The year 2014 marked the hundredth anniversary of the start of the first world war. We should know how this came about. After centuries of Imperial rule, in 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd fled into exile, in Holland. The Hohenzollern Empire was dead and it was a difficult thing for the German people to accept. Germany was trying to adjust to the fact that their country had lost the war and was now a ... Read more

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The year 2014 marked the hundredth anniversary of the start of the first world war. We should know how this came about. After centuries of Imperial rule, in 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd fled into exile, in Holland. The Hohenzollern Empire was dead and it was a difficult thing for the German people to accept. Germany was trying to adjust to the fact that their country had lost the war and was now a
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Rebels, Reds, Radicals

Rethinking Canada’s Left History

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In this brilliant and thoroughly engaging work Ian McKay sets out to revamp the history of Canadian socialism. Drawing on models of left politics in Marx and Gramsci, he outlines a fresh agenda for exploration of the Canadian left.In rejecting the usual paths of sectarian or sentimental histories, McKay draws on contemporary cultural theory to argue for an inventive strategy of “reconnaissance.” ... Read more

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In this brilliant and thoroughly engaging work Ian McKay sets out to revamp the history of Canadian socialism. Drawing on models of left politics in Marx and Gramsci, he outlines a fresh agenda for exploration of the Canadian left.In rejecting the usual paths of sectarian or sentimental histories, McKay draws on contemporary cultural theory to argue for an inventive strategy of “reconnaissance.”
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The Vimy Trap

or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...

The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... Read more

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The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics,
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Warrior Nation

Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety

by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...

Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles—-the New Warriors-—are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada’s central myth-symbols. Peaceable kingdom. Just society. Multicultural tolerance. Reasoned public debate. Their replacements? A warrior nation. Authoritarian leadership. Permanent political polarization.The ... Read more

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Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles—-the New Warriors-—are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada’s central myth-symbols. Peaceable kingdom. Just society. Multicultural tolerance. Reasoned public debate. Their replacements? A warrior nation. Authoritarian leadership. Permanent political polarization.The
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Quest of the Folk

by Ian McKay ...

The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure simple idyllic people is false argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. ... Read more

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The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure simple idyllic people is false argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values.
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The Quest of the Folk, CLS Edition

Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

by Ian McKay ...

Series Book 212 - Carleton Library Series
The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. McKay offers an in-depth analysis of the infusion of a folk ideology into the art and ... Read more

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The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. McKay offers an in-depth analysis of the infusion of a folk ideology into the art and
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Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 28 No. 2, 2017

by Ian Wereley, Ted Binnema, Béatrice Craig, IAN MCKAY, BETTINA BRADBURY, MAGDA FAHRNI, KATHRYN MCPHERSON, ROBERT C.H. SWEENY, ELIZABETH BLACKMAR, Tracy Neumann, DESMOND FITZ-GIBBON, ALEXIA YATES ...

Series Book 28 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
The importance of decisions regarding the allocation of jurisdiction over Indigenous affairs in federal states can only be understood well when studied transnationally and comparatively. Historians of Canada appear never to have considered the significance of the fact that the British North America Act (1867) gave the Canadian federal government exclusive jurisdiction over Indian affairs, even ... Read more

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The importance of decisions regarding the allocation of jurisdiction over Indigenous affairs in federal states can only be understood well when studied transnationally and comparatively. Historians of Canada appear never to have considered the significance of the fact that the British North America Act (1867) gave the Canadian federal government exclusive jurisdiction over Indian affairs, even
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Maelstrom

by Ian McKay Nunn ...

12synopsisMaelstrom [ed3] The Chronicle of the Ostmen; book one.It is 869 and Ard Mhacha remains the principal meeting place of theancients. Within a land controlled by clan lords the monks tell its peoplehow to act and what to learn, Mael MacConaill a privilaged young nobledisregards the messages of God's path for him. When the monastery israided by Ostmen, everything changes.The warlords lead by ... Read more

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12synopsisMaelstrom [ed3] The Chronicle of the Ostmen; book one.It is 869 and Ard Mhacha remains the principal meeting place of theancients. Within a land controlled by clan lords the monks tell its peoplehow to act and what to learn, Mael MacConaill a privilaged young nobledisregards the messages of God's path for him. When the monastery israided by Ostmen, everything changes.The warlords lead by
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The New British Politics

by Ian Budge, David Mckay, Kenneth Newton, John Bartle ...

The New British Politics is one of the most comprehensive and successful introductions to British politics ever published. Now available in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, this clear, lively and authoritative text has an emphasis on law and order and the historical context of British politics. Written by internationally-known specialists, the book combines incisive and original ... Read more

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The New British Politics is one of the most comprehensive and successful introductions to British politics ever published. Now available in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, this clear, lively and authoritative text has an emphasis on law and order and the historical context of British politics. Written by internationally-known specialists, the book combines incisive and original
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Dragon's Way

The Chronicle of the Ostmen; Book Two

by Ian McKay Nunn ...

A kingdom faces foreign invasion to emerge as the country that defined a modern nation The Saxon kingdoms of Britain saw their land immersed in the ‘dark age’ of assault from the men from the east, the Ostmen. Only one kingdom was spared the occupation of the Danish warlords and their men hungry for a new land. Crisis forces us to look to leaders. One who shows us a vision for life and our place ... Read more

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A kingdom faces foreign invasion to emerge as the country that defined a modern nation The Saxon kingdoms of Britain saw their land immersed in the ‘dark age’ of assault from the men from the east, the Ostmen. Only one kingdom was spared the occupation of the Danish warlords and their men hungry for a new land. Crisis forces us to look to leaders. One who shows us a vision for life and our place
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Crisis and Contagion

Conversations on Capitalism and Covid-19

Edited by Ian McKay ...

Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with Nancy Fraser, Mike Davis, Mack Penner, Andreas Malm, and Merrill Singer explore capitalism’s organic crisis and the ways it has made this and future pandemics inevitable. Nora Loreto, Tithi Bhattacharya, Chandrima Chakraborty, Merlin Chowkwanyun, and ... Read more

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Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with Nancy Fraser, Mike Davis, Mack Penner, Andreas Malm, and Merrill Singer explore capitalism’s organic crisis and the ways it has made this and future pandemics inevitable. Nora Loreto, Tithi Bhattacharya, Chandrima Chakraborty, Merlin Chowkwanyun, and
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