This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present. It is broken down into sections dealing with Canada’s culture, geography, people, history (from New France to the constitutional debates in the late 20th century), political system (including the constitution, monarchy, executive, parliament, legal and court system, federalism and the provinces, provincial governments, parties and elections), defense, economy, future and bibliography.
Junior Encyclopedia of Canadian Provinces, 5th Edition
Teachers who have not paid close attention to happenings in Canada will be surprised that a new province, Nunavut, was created from the Northern Territories in 1999. Now the largest of all, it has the least population, less than 30,000. For students studying the northern hemisphere, information in this new edition is arranged to allow for assignments requiring comparison between two or more of the provinces and the body of the articles have each division numbered.
Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome
Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome
Immerse yourself in the sensual delights of Rome in all their guises. By the time of the emperors, the Romans had created the world's first global empire, and plundered the provinces for produce to be eaten, planted or displayed as novelties. At the same time the aesthetics of the city of Rome was being transferred to the provinces, establishing towns with public buildings, baths and the Latin language. With these attributes of civilisation came other trappings of Roman culture: lavish entertainments, elaborate dinner parties and vice.
In 300 C.E. the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the North Sea to the Sahara Desert. A mere three hundred years later the Roman imperial structure was gone, replaced by a series of barbarian kingdoms that became the basis of Europe's eventual medieval and modern states. In this anthology Thomas F.X. Noble presents a collection of key articles, written by leading scholars over the last twenty years, that examine how and why the dominance of the Roman Empire ended and how new forms of government and society were established.