Author: Roberta M. Styran
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773586903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Making extensive use of the National Archives and the Archives of Ontario, Styran and Taylor unveil previously unpublished information about the construction of the canals, including technical plans and drawings from a wide variety of sources. They illustrate the technical and management intricacies of building a navigational trade and commerce lifeline while also revealing the vivid characters - from businessman William Hamilton Merritt to engineer John Page - who inspired the project and drove it to completion. The history of the Welland Canals is a gripping tale of epic proportions. Given the ongoing importance of the Great Lakes in the North American economy, interest in the St. Lawrence Seaway - of which the Welland is "the Great Swivel Link" - and the relevance of labour history, This Great National Object will be of interest to enthusiasts and historians alike.
Author: William Paulet CAREY
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Jan Zwicky
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077359700X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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Alkibiades, a central character in Plato's Symposium, claims that philosophy touches him to the quick. When Socrates speaks, he's often moved to tears and realizes he must change his life. In Alkibiades' Love, Jan Zwicky demonstrates that this image of philosophy is not anachronistic, but remains the living heart of the discipline. Philosophy can indeed matter to our lives, but for it to do so, we must reconceive the methods that, since the Enlightenment, have dominated its self-image in the West. In these meticulously researched essays, Zwicky argues that analytic and poststructuralist philosophy are not simply fashions in academic discourse, but are manifestations of the technocracy which they sustain and promote. The alternative she develops, by showing it in action, is lyric philosophy - an integrated mode of understanding whose foundations lie in the way we comprehend music and metaphor. Written in lucid and powerful prose, Alkibiades' Love will interest a broad readership, from students of ancient Greek philosophy to ecologists seeking a coherent foundation for their work. Zwicky offers deep and original readings of Freud, Plato, and Simone Weil, and resuscitates Max Wertheimer's work, linking it to our comprehension of mathematics, metaphor, and ecological structures. Zwicky has been hailed as one of the most important and original thinkers of our time. Alkibiades' Love illuminates and extends her groundbreaking work while providing an accessible introduction for those coming to her thought for the first time.
Author: Henry Clay
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Author: James Simpson
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Author: James Simpson (Advocate, of Edinburgh.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Andrew Stewart
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Author: James Simpson
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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