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Militant Minority

British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972

By: Benjamin Isitt

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Militant Minority

British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972

By: Benjamin Isitt

Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. Through their continuing activism on issues from the politics of timber licenses to global questions of war and peace, these workers bridged the transition from an Old to a New Left. In the late 1950s, half of B.C.'s workers belonged to unions, but the promise of postwar collective bargaining spawned disillusionment tied to inflation and automation. A new working class that was educated, white collar, and increasingly rebellious shifted the locus of activism from the Communist Party and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation to the newly formed New Democratic Party, which was elected in 1972. Grounded in archival research and oral history, Militant Minority provides a valuable case study of one of the most organized and independent working classes in North America, during a period of ideological tension and unprecedented material advance.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442661887

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From Victoria to Vladivostok

Canada?s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19

By: Benjamin Isitt

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From Victoria to Vladivostok

Canada?s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19

By: Benjamin Isitt

This groundbreaking book brings to life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia – the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat Bolshevism. Combining military and labour history with the social history of BC, Quebec, and Russia, Benjamin Isitt examines how the Siberian Expedition exacerbated tensions within Canadian society at a time when a radicalized working class, many French-Canadians, and even the soldiers themselves objected to a military adventure designed to counter the Russian Revolution. The result is a highly readable and provocative work that challenges public memory of the First World War while illuminating tensions – both in Canada and worldwide – that shaped the course of twentieth-century history.

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UBC Press

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0774818034

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9780774818032

Able to Lead

Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley

By: Ravi Malhotra,Benjamin Isitt

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Able to Lead

Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley

By: Ravi Malhotra,Benjamin Isitt

Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life. Born in mid-nineteenth-century New York,y 1890 he was a railway brakeman in Montana. An accident left him a double amputee and politically radicalized, and his socialist activism that followed took him north of the border where he eventually was considered by the government to be “one of the most dangerous men in Canada”. Able to Lead traces Kingsley’s political journey from soapbox speaker in San Francisco to prominence in the Socialist Party of Canada. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt illuminate a figure who shaped a generation of Canadian leftists during a time when it was uncommon for disabled men to lead. They examine Kingsley’s endeavours for justice against the Northern Pacific Railway, and how Kingsley’s life intersected with immigration law and free-speech rights. Able to Lead brings a turbulent period in North American history to life, highlighting Kingsley’s profound legacy for the twenty-first-century political left.

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UBC Press

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0774865792

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9780774865791

Milton's Theology of Freedom

By: Benjamin Myers

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Milton's Theology of Freedom

By: Benjamin Myers

At the centre of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a radical commitment to divine and human freedom. This study situates Paradise Lost within the context of post-Reformation theological controversy, and pursues the theological portrayal of freedom as it unfolds throughout the poem. The study identifies and explores the ways in which Milton is both continuous and discontinuous with the major post-Reformation traditions in his depiction of predestination, creation, free will, sin, and conversion. Milton’s deep commitment to freedom is shown to underlie his appropriation and creative transformation of a wide range of existing theological concepts.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110919370

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9783110919370

Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy

By: Benjamin Isakhan

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Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy

By: Benjamin Isakhan

Re-examines the long and complex history of democracy and broadens the traditional view of this history by complementing it with examples from unexplored or under-examined quarters.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748653686

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From Victoria to Vladivostok

Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-19

By: Benjamin Isitt

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From Victoria to Vladivostok

Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-19

By: Benjamin Isitt

Isitt's work is new, innovative, and important. He deftly weaves the Canadian working class oposition to war and the rising leftist sentiment among workers with the inner life of the Siberian Expedition itself...No less importamt. he melds a national story with an international one. He reveals new aspects of international cooperation in the attempt to suppress the Bolshevik revolution as well as international rivalries among the countries that intervened in in Russia."---Larry Hannant, editor of The Politics of Passion: Norman Behtune's Writing and Art" ""From Victoria to Vladivostok sheds new light on a part of Canadian history that previous scholars have written off as a mere sideshow, a rather embarrassing episode that had no impact on the First World War. In contrast, Isitt sees the problems that befell the Expedition as being rooted in conflicting views of Bolshevism in Canada, and defferent perceptions of the logic behind an intervention in Russia. In this, his contribution is both significant and original."---Jonathan Vance, author of Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War against Nazi Occupation" "This highly readable and provocative book brings to life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia-the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat Bolshevism. It illuminates how the Siberian Expedition exacerbated tensions within Canadian society at a time when a radicalized working class, many French-Canadians, and even the soldiers themselves objected to a military adventure designed to counter the Russian Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.

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UBC Press

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0774818018

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Using Power Well

Bob Williams and the Making of British Columbia

By: Bob Williams

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Using Power Well

Bob Williams and the Making of British Columbia

By: Bob Williams

The compelling biography of former British Columbia cabinet minister Bob Williams weaves his political and economical insights with the story of his unconventional life. In Using Power Well, former provincial politician Bob Williams tells his atypical life story: beginning with his childhood in the working-class east end of Vancouver, Williams goes on to describe his early years as a planner in Delta, BC, his political life on Vancouver City Council and in the BC Legislature--including a major impact on the first NDP government in the 1970s--and his more recent contributions in the world of business and co-operative economics. Williams's legacy is dotted across the physical and political landscape of BC--from the Whistler Town Centre and Robson Square to the Agricultural Land Reserve, the Insurance Corporation of BC and many projects in between. A straight shooter who refuses to mince words, Williams advocates in this highly readable and colourful book for a bottom-up approach to politics and public policy, bypassing bureaucracy in order to use power well.

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088971424X

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Able to Lead

Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley

By: Ravi Malhotra,Benjamin Isitt

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Able to Lead

Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley

By: Ravi Malhotra,Benjamin Isitt

Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life: he was once described as “one of the most dangerous men in Canada.” In 1890, Kingsley was working as a railway brakeman in Montana when an accident left him a double amputee, and politically radicalized. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt trace Kingsley’s political journey from soapbox speaker in San Francisco to prominence in the Socialist Party of Canada. They examine Kingsley’s endeavours for justice against the Northern Pacific Railway, and how his life intersected with immigration law and free-speech rights. Able to Lead highlights Kingsley’s profound legacy for the twenty-first-century political left.

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UBC Press

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0774865784

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Militant Minority

British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972

By: Benjamin Isitt

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British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972

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1442611057

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Towards the Critique of Violence

Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben

By: Walter Benjamin,Giorgio Agamben

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Towards the Critique of Violence

Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben

By: Walter Benjamin,Giorgio Agamben

In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin's early essay 'Towards the Critique of Violence' (1921) has taken a central place in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps even the occasional obscurity of Benjamin's text have undoubtedly contributed to the diversity, conflict, and richness of contemporary readings. Interest has heightened following the attention that philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben have devoted to it. Agamben's own interest started early in his career with his 1970 essay, 'On the Limits of Violence', and Benjamin's essay continues.

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1474252176

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Book's by Benjamin Isitt

Militant Minority

Militant Minority

From Victoria to Vladivostok

From Victoria to Vladivostok

Able to Lead

Able to Lead

Milton's Theology of Freedom

Milton's Theology of Freedom

Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy

Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy

From Victoria to Vladivostok

From Victoria to Vladivostok

Using Power Well

Using Power Well

Able to Lead

Able to Lead

Militant Minority

Militant Minority

Towards the Critique of Violence

Towards the Critique of Violence

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