Twentieth Century

The 20th (twentieth) century began on January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. Unlike most century years, the year 2000 was a leap year, and the second century leap year in the Gregorian calendar after 1600. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear weapons, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts; intergovernmental organizations …

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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 19 April 2024 English

“The multiplicity of perspectives and voices represented in this collection draws attention to core contradictions associated with Canadian identity. Interconnected themes and analytical frames enrich the work, offering unique ways …

perhaps even the consideration that the twentieth- century policy no longer applies in twenty-first-century post-multicultural world. This apparent contradiction—a twentieth-century simplism float- ing about in the complexities March). Identity crisis: Multiculturalism: A twentieth-century dream becomes a twenty-first century conundrum


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 April 2024 English

“Inspiring, healing, and future-facing, this long overdue book gives us valuable new insights into the histories and identities of Métis people.”

northeastern Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century, his roots coming directly through the Red


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 5 April 2024

Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores …

biological father, amberized in the mid-twentieth- century language of my adoption papers, was “Negro”


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 5 April 2024 English

Mixing recipes, maps, archival records, biographies, and full-colour photographs with fascinating stories, mmm... Manitoba showcases the province’s diverse foodways and industries from on board the Manitoba Food History Truck.

Icelandic newcomers of the first half of the twentieth century moved to wealthier neighbourhoods as their retail industries that took form during the twentieth century.”16 But we need not only the history of the manufacture, and consumption of food in twentieth-century Britain.22 The Manitoba Food History research


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2 April 2024 English

Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities examines the relationship between the Wet’suwet’en and hydrocarbon pipeline development, showing how colonial governments and corporations seek to control Indigenous claims and how the Wet'suwet'en resist. …

of global reserve ownership. In the mid-twentieth century, inter- national oil companies dominated production


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2 April 2024 English

All Sky, Mirror Ocean is for everyone looking to understand the complex issues around mental illness and healing. Combining autobiography, research-creation, poetry, and creative philosophy, Brad Necyk uses art and …

Agamben turns to Martin Heidegger: towering twentieth-century philoso- pher. Controversial in every way


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 29 March 2024 English

This first-of-its-kind collection shares stories not only of entrepreneurial excellence and persistence but of savvy leadership, innovation, and reciprocity, providing hope to Indigenous business leaders, youth, and elected officials working …

most in need.2 By the middle decades of the twentieth century, Canada was becoming sufficiently prosperous Canadian industrial economy of the early twentieth century as day labourers, farmers, and fishers.5 the barriers Indigenous people in the early twentieth century encountered, they were starting to participate makers during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. The use of Indigenous lands and waters as the late 1900s and the early part of the twentieth century, the area in and around Sydney was booming


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 26 March 2024 English

The story of Cape Breton presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Contributors capture the vital elements of a region on the rural …

and Julia Smith Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century: Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism Industrial Capitalism cape breton in the long twentieth century Edited by Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew ParnabyCopyright Publication Title: Cape Breton in the long twentieth century : formations and legacies of industrial capitalism Donovan 8 Twenty- First- Century Uses for Twentieth- Century Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Collections: From Breton Coal Miners at the End of the Long Twentieth Century, 1981– 86 247 Lachlan MacKinnon 10 The Great


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 26 March 2024 English

Cette étude retrace l'histoire des membres de l'Église presbytérienne Mackay qui ont servi pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, de leurs familles restées au pays et de l'Église qui a réagi …

and secularism, Christianity in the early twentieth century was still central to the Canadian experience recalled that in the first two decades of the twentieth century, local kids of all backgrounds eagerly awaited


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 19 March 2024 English

An exposé of the reality of Saskatchewan’s potash industry management—prioritizing private profit over public interest A single province in Canada—Saskatchewan—is blessed with a remarkable birthright: 50% of the world’s potash …

Saskatchewan for a decade and a half in the twentieth century, would capture the imagination and support


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