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Bringing Art to Life

A Biography of Alan Jarvis

By: Andrew Horrall

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Bringing Art to Life

A Biography of Alan Jarvis

By: Andrew Horrall

Tracing Alan Jarvis' personal background and varied careers through archives, published sources, and interviews with family, friends, colleagues, and critics, Bringing Art to Life assesses his impact and exposes the formal and informal mechanisms through which Canadian culture operated in the mid-twentieth century." --Résumé de l'éditeur.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773575839

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9780773575837

Inventing the cave man

From Darwin to the Flintstones

By: Andrew Horrall

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Inventing the cave man

From Darwin to the Flintstones

By: Andrew Horrall

Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors were portrayed in satirical cartoons, songs, sketches and plays as ape-like, reflecting the threat posed by evolutionary ideas. By the end of the century, recognisably human cave men inhabited a Stone Age version of late-imperial Britain, sending-up its ideals and institutions. Cave men appeared constantly in parades, civic pageants and costume parties. In the early 1900s American cartoonists and early Hollywood stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adopted and reimagined this very British character, cementing it in global popular culture. Cave men are an appealing way to explore and understand Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

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316

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Manchester University Press

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1526113872

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9781526113870

Popular Culture in London C.1890-1918

The Transformation of Entertainment

By: Andrew Horrall

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Popular Culture in London C.1890-1918

The Transformation of Entertainment

By: Andrew Horrall

Reg Prentice remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period. His defection reflected an important 'sea change' in British politics; the end of the post-war consensus and the beginnings of the Thatcher era. This book examines the key events surrounding Prentice's transition from a front-line Labour politician to a Conservative minister in the first Thatcher government. It focuses on the shifting political climate in Britain during the 1970s, as the post-war settlement came under pressure from adverse economic conditions, militant trade unionism and an assertive New Left. Prentice's story provides an important case study on the crisis that afflicted social democracy, highlighting Labour's left-right divide and the possibility of a realignment of British politics. This study will be invaluable to anyone interested in the turbulent and transitional nature of British politics during a watershed period.

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290

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Manchester University Press

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0719057833

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9780719057830

Secret Service

Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America

By: Reg Whitaker,Gregory S. Kealey,Andrew Parnaby

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Secret Service

Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America

By: Reg Whitaker,Gregory S. Kealey,Andrew Parnaby

Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations. Drawing on previously classified government records, the authors reveal that for over 150 years, Canada has run spy operations largely hidden from public or parliamentary scrutiny – complete with undercover agents, secret sources, agent provocateurs, coded communications, elaborate files, and all the usual apparatus of deception and betrayal so familiar to fans of spy fiction. As they argue, what makes Canada unique among Western countries is its insistent focus of its surveillance inwards, and usually against Canadian citizens. Secret Service highlights the many tensions that arise when undercover police and their covert methods are deployed too freely in a liberal democratic society. It will prove invaluable to readers attuned to contemporary debates about policing, national security, and civil rights in a post-9/11 world.

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721

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University of Toronto Press

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1442662387

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9781442662384

Policing the Great Plains

Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910

By: Andrew R. Graybill

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Policing the Great Plains

Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910

By: Andrew R. Graybill

In the late nineteenth century, the Texas Rangers and Canada?s North-West Mounted Police were formed to bring the resource-rich hinterlands at either end of the Great Plains under governmental control. Native and rural peoples often found themselves squarely in the path of this westward expansion and the law enforcement agents that led the way. Though separated by nearly two thousand miles, the Rangers and Mounties performed nearly identical functions, including subjugating Indigenous groups; dispossessing peoples of mixed ancestry; defending the property of big cattlemen; and policing industrial disputes. Yet the means by which the two forces achieved these ends sharply diverged;øwhile the Rangers often relied on violence, the Mounties usually exercised restraint, a fact that highlights some of the fundamental differences between the U.S. and Canadian Wests. Policing the Great Plains presents the first comparative history of the two most famous constabularies in the world.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803260024

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9780803260023

Babylon Under Western Eyes

A Study of Allusion and Myth

By: Andrew Scheil

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Babylon Under Western Eyes

A Study of Allusion and Myth

By: Andrew Scheil

Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years. Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical, medieval, and modern texts, Andrew Scheil uses Babylon’s remarkable literary ubiquity as the foundation for a thorough analysis of the dynamics of adaptation and allusion in western literature. Touching on everything from Old English poetry to the contemporary apocalyptic fiction of the “Left Behind” series, Scheil outlines how medieval Christian society and its cultural successors have adopted Babylon as a political metaphor, a degenerate archetype, and a place associated with the sublime. Combining remarkable erudition with a clear and accessible style, Babylon under Western Eyes is the first comprehensive examination of Babylon’s significance within the pantheon of western literature and a testimonial to the continuing influence of biblical, classical, and medieval paradigms in modern culture.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442625139

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The World, The Flesh and the Devil

The Life and Opinions of Samuel Marsden in England and the Antipodes, 1765–1838

By: Andrew Sharp

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The World, The Flesh and the Devil

The Life and Opinions of Samuel Marsden in England and the Antipodes, 1765–1838

By: Andrew Sharp

New Zealanders know Samuel Marsden as the founder of the CMS missions that brought Christianity (and perhaps sheep) to New Zealand. Australians know him as &‘the flogging parson' who established large landholdings and was dismissed from his position as magistrate for exceeding his jurisdiction. English readers know of Marsden for his key role in the history of missions and empire. In this major biography spanning research, and the subject's life, across England, New South Wales and New Zealand, Andrew Sharp tells the story of Marsden's life from the inside. Sharp focuses on revealing to modern readers the powerful evangelical lens through which Marsden understood the world. By diving deeply into key moments &– the voyage out, the disputes with Macquarie, the founding of missions &– Sharp gets us to reimagine the world as Marsden saw it: always under threat from the Prince of Darkness, in need of &‘a bold reprover of vice', a world written in the words of the King James Bible. Andrew Sharp takes us back into the nineteenth-century world, and an evangelical mind, to reveal the past as truly a foreign country.

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Auckland University Press

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1775587088

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9781775587088

Inventing the cave man

From Darwin to the Flintstones

By: Andrew Horrall

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From Darwin to the Flintstones

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Manchester University Press

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Bringing Art to Life

A Biography of Alan Jarvis

By: Andrew Horrall

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A Biography of Alan Jarvis

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Popular Culture in London C.1890-1918

The Transformation of Entertainment

By: Andrew Horrall

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The Transformation of Entertainment

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Bringing Art to Life

Bringing Art to Life

Inventing the cave man

Inventing the cave man

Popular Culture in London C.1890-1918

Popular Culture in London C.1890-1918

Secret Service

Secret Service

Policing the Great Plains

Policing the Great Plains

Babylon Under Western Eyes

Babylon Under Western Eyes

The World, The Flesh and the Devil

The World, The Flesh and the Devil

Inventing the cave man

Inventing the cave man

Bringing Art to Life

Bringing Art to Life

Popular Culture in London C.1890-1918

Popular Culture in London C.1890-1918

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