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Maritime Command Pacific

Maritime Command Pacific

The Royal Canadian Navy’s West Coast Fleet in the Early Cold War
by David Zimmerman
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The Royal Canadian Navy crews that sailed the Atlantic during the early Cold War held a contemptuous view of their West Coast brethren, likening the Pacific fleet to a “yacht club” where sailors enjoyed a life of leisurely service on a tranquil sea. As David Zimmerman reveals, nothing could be further from the truth. From the fleet’s postwar …

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The Call of the World

The Call of the World

A Political Memoir
by Bill Graham
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Bill Graham – Canada’s minister of foreign affairs and minister of defence during the tumultuous years following 9/11 – takes us on a personal journey from his Vancouver childhood to important behind-the-scenes moments in recent global history. With candour and wit, he recounts meetings with world leaders, contextualizes important geopolitica …

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What We Learned

What We Learned

Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools
by Helen Raptis, with members of the Tsimshian Nation
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Stories of Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools have haunted Canadians in recent years. Yet most Indigenous children in Canada attended “Indian day schools,” and later public schools, near their home communities. Although church and government officials often kept detailed administrative records, we know little about the act …

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North to Bondage

North to Bondage

Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
by Harvey Amani Whitfield
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Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of British North America.

 

The transition from slavery in the American colonies to slavery in the Marit …

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Hearts and Mines

Hearts and Mines

The US Empire’s Culture Industry
by Tanner Mirrlees
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The US security state is everywhere in cultural products: in army-supported news stories, TV shows, and video games; in CIA-influenced blockbusters and comics; and in State Department ads, broadcasts, and websites. Hearts and Mines examines the rise and reach of the US Empire’s culture industry – a nexus between the US’s security state and me …

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The People and the Bay

The People and the Bay

A Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour
by Nancy B. Bouchier & Ken Cruikshank
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This masterful social and environmental history raises questions about how decisions being made about the natural world today will shape the cities of tomorrow.

 

In 1865, John Smoke braved the ice on Burlington Bay to go spearfishing. Soon after, he was arrested by a fishery inspector and then convicted by a magistrate who chastised him for thinking …

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Lock, Stock, and Icebergs

Lock, Stock, and Icebergs

A History of Canada’s Arctic Maritime Sovereignty
by Adam Lajeunesse
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In 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald Reagan a globe, pointed to the Arctic, and said “Ron that’s ours. We own it lock, stock, and icebergs.” A simple statement, it summed up a hundred years of official policy. Since the nineteenth century, Canadian governments have cl …

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A Town Called Asbestos

A Town Called Asbestos

Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
by Jessica van Horssen
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For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos from the town of Asbestos, Quebec, to produce fire-retardant products. Then, over time, people learned about the mineral’s devastating effects on human health. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, the residents of Asbestos developed a unique, place- …

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In Search of the Ethical Lawyer

In Search of the Ethical Lawyer

Stories from the Canadian Legal Profession
edited by Adam Dodek & Alice Woolley
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What options did Paul Bernardo’s lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn’t doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her client is a danger to the public?

 

In this equally inspiring and troubling book, leading Canadia …

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Made in Nunavut

Made in Nunavut

An Experiment in Decentralized Government
by Jack Hicks & Graham White
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After years of negotiation, the territory of Nunavut was established in Canada’s Eastern and Central Arctic on April 1, 1999. Made in Nunavut provides the first behind-the-scenes account of the planning that led to this remarkable achievement. The authors, leading authorities on the politics of the Canadian Arctic, pay particular attention to the …

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Parties and Party Systems

Parties and Party Systems

Structure and Context
edited by Richard Johnston & Campbell Sharman
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Party systems. Party organization. For too long, scholars researching in these two areas have worked in isolation. This book bridges the divide by bringing together political scientists from both traditions to examine the intersection of rules, society, and the organization of parties within party systems. Blending theory and case studies, Parties …

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Making a Scene

Making a Scene

Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84
by Liz Millward
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In the 1960s, a youthful and ambitious lesbian movement began taking shape in Canada. After decades of being pathologized, disparaged, or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene – both by calling attention to themselves and by creating places to come together and forge their own culture. Making a Scene tells this story, revis …

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From Slave Girls to Salvation

From Slave Girls to Salvation

Gender, Race, and Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1923
by Shelly D. Ikebuchi
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For decades, the Chinese Rescue Home was a feature of the landscape of Victoria, British Columbia. Originally a refuge for Chinese prostitutes and slave girls rescued from captivity, it became a residence and school where the Methodist Women’s Missionary Society attempted to reform Chinese and Japanese girls and women. They did so, in part, by te …

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Unwanted Warriors

Unwanted Warriors

Rejected Volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
by Nic Clarke
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Unwanted Warriors uncovers the history of Canada’s first casualties of the Great War – men who tried to enlist but were deemed “unfit for service.” What impact did military exclusion have on these men? Nic Clarke looks for answers in the service files of 3,400 rejected volunteers and explores the mechanics of the medical examination, the ph …

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Points of Entry

Points of Entry

How Canada’s Immigration Officers Decide Who Gets in
by Vic Satzewich
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Every year, over 1.3 million people apply to visit, work, or settle in Canada and discover that their future rests in visa officers’ hands. How do these officers decide who gets in? Seeking answers to this question, Vic Satzewich gained access to eleven overseas visa offices. Points of Entry reveals immigration officers in action as they determin …

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Big Tent Politics

Big Tent Politics

The Liberal Party’s Long Mastery of Canada’s Public Life
by R. Kenneth Carty
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The Liberal Party of Canada is one of the most successful parties in the democratic world. It dominated Canadian politics for a century, practising an inclusive style of “big tent” politics that enabled it to fend off opponents on both the left and right. This book traces the record of the party, unwrapping Liberal practices and organization to …

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Disarming Intervention

Disarming Intervention

A Critical History of Non-Lethality
by Seantel Anaïs
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Non-lethal weapons take many forms – from rubber bullets to electroshock and long-range acoustic devices – which their proponents argue are ethical, legal, and humane. Social scientists, historians, legal scholars, and activists have long challenged the use of non-lethal weapons in policing and war. Until now, little scholarly attention has bee …

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When Good Drugs Go Bad

When Good Drugs Go Bad

Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada’s Drug Laws
by Dan Malleck
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In the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments. Drug dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. Dan Malleck reveals how different forces converged in the early 1900s to influence lawmakers an …

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Patriation and Its Consequences

Patriation and Its Consequences

Constitution Making in Canada
edited by Lois Harder & Steve Patten
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Few moments in Canadian history are as intriguing as the political battle between Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the “Gang of Eight” provincial premiers who opposed his plans to “patriate” Canada’s constitution from Britain. Patriation and Its Consequences revisits these constitutional negotiations, including the personalities, visions …

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Far Off Metal River

Far Off Metal River

Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic
by Emilie Cameron
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Drawing on Samuel Hearne’s gruesome account of an alleged massacre at Bloody Falls in 1771, Emilie Cameron reveals how Qablunaat (non-Inuit, non-Indigenous people) have used stories about the Arctic for over two centuries as a tool to justify ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North. Rather than expecting Inuit to counter these …

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Conflicting Visions

Conflicting Visions

Canada and India in the Cold War World, 1946-76
by Ryan Touhey
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In 1974, India shocked the world by detonating a nuclear device. In the diplomatic controversy that ensued, the Canadian government expressed outrage that India had extracted plutonium from a Canadian reactor donated only for peaceful purposes. In the aftermath, relations between the two nations cooled considerably. As Conflicting Visions reveals, …

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Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma

Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma

A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy
by Lisa Pasolli
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During the twentieth century, child care policy in British Columbia matured in the shadow of a persistent political uneasiness with working motherhood. Charting the growth of the child care movement in this province, Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma examines how ideas about motherhood, paid work, and social welfare have influenced univers …

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Queer Mobilizations

Queer Mobilizations

Social Movement Activism and Canadian Public Policy
edited by Manon Tremblay
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Canada is considered a leader when it comes to LGBTQ rights, yet this is a fairly recent phenomenon – one that is largely due to the tireless work of disparate groups of LGBTQ activists. Queer Mobilizations examines the relationships between LGBTQ activists and local, provincial, and federal Canadian governments. The contributors explore how vari …

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Beyond Testimony and Trauma

Beyond Testimony and Trauma

Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence
edited by Steven High
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Survivors of terrible events are often portrayed as unsung heroes or tragic victims but rarely as complex human beings whose lives extend beyond the stories they have told. The contributors to Beyond Testimony and Trauma consider other ways to engage with survivors and their accounts based on valuable insights gained from their work on long-term or …

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Fighting for Votes

Fighting for Votes

Parties, the Media, and Voters in an Ontario Election
by William P. Cross; Jonathan Malloy; Tamara A. Small & Laura B. Stephenson
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Elections are not just about who casts ballots – they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes examines how these factors interacted during a recent Ontario election. Drawing on a wealth of sources, the authors ask three questions: How do parties position themselves to appeal to voters? How is informa …

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French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest

French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest

by Jean Barman
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Jean Barman rewrites the history of the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of the French Canadians involved in the fur economy, the Indigenous women whose presence in their lives encouraged them to stay, and their descendants. For half a century, French Canadians were the region’s largest group of newcomers, facilitating early overland crossi …

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Resettling the Range

Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia
by John Thistle
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The ranchers who resettled BC’s interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition from grasshoppers and wild horses. With the help of the government, settlers resolved to rid the range of both.

 

Resettling the Range explores the ecology and history …

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In Peace Prepared

In Peace Prepared

Innovation and Adaptation in Canada’s Cold War Army
by Andrew B. Godefroy
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The Allies claimed victory at the end of the Second World War, but the United States' invention of the atomic bomb and its replication by the Soviet Union posed new dangers for all nations. This book examines what Canada's Cold War Army did to prepare for nuclear war — and why and how it did it. Although the war never materialized, officers, scie …

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The First Nations of British Columbia, Third Edition

The First Nations of British Columbia, Third Edition

An Anthropological Overview
by Robert J. Muckle
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Since it was first published in 1998, The First Nations of British Columbia has been an essential introduction to the province’s first peoples. Written within an anthropological framework, it familiarizes readers with the history and cultures of First Nations in the province and provides a fundamental understanding of current affairs and concerns …

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Paths to the Bench

Paths to the Bench

The Judicial Appointment Process in Manitoba, 1870-1950
by Dale Brawn
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Using the judiciary of Manitoba as a model, Paths to the Bench examines the political nature of Canada's judicial appointment process and suggests that ability alone seldom determined who went to the bench. In fact, many of Manitoba's early judges spent little time actually practising law, since professional merit was not a criterion for judicial a …

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The Soldiers' General

The Soldiers' General

Bert Hoffmeister at War
by Douglas E. Delaney
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By the end of the Second World War, Bert Hoffmeister had risen from Captain to Major-General and won more awards than any Canadian officer in the war. This native Vancouverite earned a reputation as a fearless commander on the battlefield – one who led from the front, one well loved by those he led. With an astute analytical eye, Delaney carefull …

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The Man Who Invented Gender

The Man Who Invented Gender

Engaging the Ideas of John Money
by Terry Goldie
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A controversial figure, innovative scholar, and ardent advocate for sexual liberation, sexologist John Money opened a new field of research in sexual science and gave currency to medical ideas about human sexuality. This book offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of this pioneering scholar’s writing to assess Money …

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Rebel Youth

Rebel Youth

1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
by Ian Milligan
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During the “long sixties,” baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal leaders at universities across Canada, nearly 90% of Canada's young people went straight to work after high school. There, they brought the anti-authoritarian spirit of the youth revolt to the labour …

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Food Will Win the War

Food Will Win the War

The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front
by Ian Mosby
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During the Second World War, as Canada struggled to provide its allies with food, public health officials warned that malnutrition could derail the war effort. Posters admonished Canadians to "Eat Right" because "Canada Needs You Strong" while cookbooks helped housewives become "housoldiers" through food rationing, menu substitutions, and household …

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African Canadians in Union Blue

African Canadians in Union Blue

Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War
by Richard M. Reid
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When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he also authorized the army to recruit black soldiers. Nearly 200,000 men answered the call. Several thousand came from Canada. What compelled these men to leave the relative comfort and safety of home to fight in a foreign war? In African Canadians in Union Blue, Richard Reid sets out in search of …

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“Métis”

“Métis”

Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
by Chris Andersen
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Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race.” Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Métis status on this race-based understanding.

 

According to Andersen, Canada got it wrong. Our very preoccupation with mixedn …

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Private Women and the Public Good

Private Women and the Public Good

Charity and State Formation in Hamilton, Ontario, 1846-93
by Carmen J. Nielson
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In 1846, a group of women came together to form what would become one of Hamilton's most important social welfare institutions. Through the Ladies Benevolent Society and Hamilton Orphan Asylum, they managed and administered a charitable visiting society, orphan asylum, and aged women's home. In Private Women and the Public Good, Carmen J. Nielson e …

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Equality Deferred

Equality Deferred

Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84
by Dominique Cl—ment
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In Equality Deferred, Dominique Cl—ment traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation. Focusing on British Columbia — the first jurisdiction to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex — he documents a variety of absurd, almost unbelievable, acts of discrimination. Drawing on previousl …

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Coping with Calamity

Coping with Calamity

Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949
by Jiayan Zhang
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The Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth century, become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging. Over time, population pressures and dike building left more and more people in the regi …

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Oral History at the Crossroads

Oral History at the Crossroads

Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement
by Steven High
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Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project. From the outset, the project’s organizers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral history practice, one where community members “shared authority” as equal partners. Together, they challenged …

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The Voyage of the Komagata Maru

The Voyage of the Komagata Maru

The Sikh Challenge to Canada's Colour Bar, Expanded and Fully Revised Edition
by Hugh J.M. Johnston
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Released to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of the arrival of the Komagata Maru, this expanded and fully revised edition will stand as the most thoroughly researched account of the notorious Komagata Maru incident. The event centres on the ship’s nearly four hundred Punjabi passengers, who sought entry into Canada at Vancouver in the summe …

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First Nations, Museums, Narrations

First Nations, Museums, Narrations

Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies
by Alison K. Brown
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When the Franklin Motor Expedition set out across the Canadian Prairies to collect First Nations artifacts, brutal assimilation policies threatened to decimate these cultures and extensive programs of ethnographic salvage were in place. Despite having only three members, the expedition amassed the largest single collection of Prairie heritage items …

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Recognition versus Self-Determination

Recognition versus Self-Determination

Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics
edited by Avigail Eisenberg; Jeremy Webber; Glen Coulthard & Andr?e Boisselle
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The political concept of recognition has introduced new ways of thinking about the relationship between minorities and justice in plural societies. But is a politics informed by recognition valuable to minorities today? Contributors to this volume examine the successes and failures of struggles for recognition and self-determination in relation to …

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Webs of Empire

Webs of Empire

Locating New Zealand's Colonial Past
by Tony Ballantyne
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Breaking open colonization to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing, Ballantyne presents empire building as a spreading web of connected places, people, ideas, and trade. These links question narrow, na …

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Feminist History in Canada

Feminist History in Canada

New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation
edited by Catherine Carstairs & Nancy Janovicek
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In the late 1970s, feminists urged us to “rethink” Canada by placing women’s experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, women’s and gender historians continue to take up the challenge, not only to interrogate the idea of nation but also to place their work in a global perspective. This volume showcases the work of …

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Unlikely Diplomats

Unlikely Diplomats

The Canadian Brigade in Germany, 1951-64
by Isabel Campbell
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In 1951, Canada sent troops to western Europe to support its NATO allies. The brigade helped Canada establish its international status. In private, however, Canadian officials and military leaders expressed grave doubts about NATO's strategies and operational plans. Despite these reservations, they sent military families overseas and implemented pe …

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Northscapes

Northscapes

History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments
edited by Dolly J?rgensen & Sverker S?rlin
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This book argues that the unique environments of the North have been born of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, the contributors examine a broad range of geographies, including those of Iceland and other islands in the Northern Atlantic, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Pacific N …

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To Right Historical Wrongs

To Right Historical Wrongs

Race, Gender, and Sentencing in Canada
by Carmela Murdocca
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Following the Second World War, liberal nation-states sought to address injustices of the past. Canada's government began to consider its own implication in various past wrongs, and in the late twentieth century it began to implement reparative justice initiatives for historically marginalized people. Yet despite this shift, there are more Indigeno …

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Chinese Comfort Women

Chinese Comfort Women

Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves
by Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang & Chen Lifei
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Chinese Comfort Women is the first English-language book featuring accounts of the “comfort station” experiences of women from Mainland China, forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War. Through personal narratives from twelve survivors, this book reveals the unfathomable atrocities committed against women d …

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Sporting Gender

Sporting Gender

Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-45
by Yunxiang Gao
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Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China in the early twentieth century. Gao shows how these women coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame, arguing that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China. This …

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