The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut An empire the size of Europe setting out on her career of world history is a phenomenon of vast and deep enough import to stir to national consciousness the slumbering spirit of any people. Yet when you come to trace when and where national consciousness awakened, it is like following a river back from the ocean to its mountain springs. From the silt borne down on the flood-tide you can guess the fertile plains watered and far above the fertile plains, regions of ...
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The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut An empire the size of Europe setting out on her career of world history is a phenomenon of vast and deep enough import to stir to national consciousness the slumbering spirit of any people. Yet when you come to trace when and where national consciousness awakened, it is like following a river back from the ocean to its mountain springs. From the silt borne down on the flood-tide you can guess the fertile plains watered and far above the fertile plains, regions of eternal snow and glacial torrent warring turbulently through the adamantine rocks. You can guess the eternal striving, the forward rush and the throwback that have carved a way through the solid rocks; but until you have followed the river to its source and tried to stem its current you can not know. So of peoples and nations. Fifty years ago, as far as world affairs were concerned, Japan did not exist. Came national consciousness, and Japan rose like a star dominating the Orient. A hundred years ago Germany did not exist. Came national consciousness welding chaotic principalities into unity, and the mailed fist of the empire became a menace before which Europe quailed. So of China with the ferment of freedom leavening the whole. So of the United States with the Civil War blending into a union the diversities of a continent. When you come to consider the birth of national consciousness in Canada, you do not find the germ of an ambition to dominate, as in Japan and Germany. Nor do you find a fight for freedom. Canada has always been free-free as the birds of passage that winged above the canoe of the first voyageur who pointed his craft up the St. Lawrence for the Pacific; but what you do find from the very first is a fight for national existence; and when the fight was won, Canada arose like a wrestler with consciousness of strength for new destiny. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Add this copy of The Canadian Commonwealth to cart. $6.03, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo Used In blue cloth with gilt titling, gift insctiption to endpaper, presumed jacket blurb clipping laid in, slight rubbing to tips and corners, 8vo, 343pp.
Add this copy of The Canadian Commonwealth to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by Crabtree's Collection rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sebago, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1917 by The Chautauqua Press.
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Add this copy of The Canadian Commonwealth to cart. $13.00, fair condition, Sold by Quickhatch Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ottawa, ON, CANADA, published 1915 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
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Fair. No Jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 343pp., index. Some wear to edges and corners, some pencil sidelining, front endpaper clipped, bears school library stamp inside rear but no other ex-library flaws, bookplate in rear. Essays on "Hindu" and "Oriental" immigration, the North, Newfoundland, the implications of the Panama Canal, the Hudson Bay port (Churchill), etc., etc.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. This is a clean copy but for an old moisture stain along the bottom third of the spine for the first part of the book. All text is ok. 343pp including index. A digital photo can be made available.
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Very Good in No jacket. Chautauqua, New York: The Chautauqua Press, 1917. Published 1917. Chautauqua Home Reading Series. Illustrated in black and white. Goldenrod cloth printed in black, 343 pages. Light cover wear and a bit of surface soil, small black spot at outer edge of front cover, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages free from names or other markings. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
Add this copy of The Canadian Commonwealth to cart. $25.16, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2011 by Tredition Classics.
