History / American History

This book presents a comprehensive history of organized crime in the United States – and how it has been a significant part of the nation’s development, rather than an external threat to its political, economic, and social structures.

Honoré Jaxon presents the life story of a complex political figure who invented an Indigenous ancestry he did not, in fact, possess.

Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds focuses on women, gender, and the politics of selling US consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through "polite propaganda."

Building that Bright Future examines letters and memoirs of Finnish North Americans to provide a rare glimpse of daily life in the 1930s from the edge of the Soviet Union.

Spiritualizing Politics without Politicizing Religion provides a framework that enables us to think critically about how diverse belief traditions influence political life, for better and for worse.

This biographical dictionary recovers the stories and illuminates the lives of enslaved Black people in the Maritimes.

Unsettling the Great White North offers a chronological, regional, and thematic compilation of some of the latest and best scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history.

The Bridge in the Parks examines how security and counter-intelligence functioned during the early Cold War.

The Violence of Work demonstrates that violence has always been an important part of work under capitalism. The editors explore workplace violence in a diverse range of North American workplaces from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century.

In exploring the intersections of memory, migration, and subjectivity, this book attempts to understand how Iraqi migrant women negotiate identity in diaspora.

Providing a rich cultural history of Nova Scotia, this book is rooted in a lifetime of research and a broad reading of secondary sources relating to issues of class, race, gender, and politics.

This book tells the transnational history of Portuguese communities in Canada and the United States against the backdrop of the Cold War, the Portuguese Colonial Wars, the American Civil Rights Movement, and Canadian multiculturalism.

Canoe and Canvas is a close reading of the annual meetings and encampments of the American Canoe Association between 1880 and 1910.

This edited collection offers a broad reinterpretation of the origins of Canada. Drawing on cutting-edge research in a number of fields, it explores the vigorously contested development of British North America from the mid-eighteenth century through the aftermath of Confederation

Connecting French thinkers to the American sixties, The American Politics of French Theory demonstrates why, in an era of mass communication and global revolt, it is politically potent and methodologically necessary to think of translation not as an act of substitution, but as a web of associations.

From Wall Street to Bay Street is the first book for a lay audience to tackle the similarities and differences between the financial systems of Canada and the United States. Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin reveal the different paths each system has taken since the early nineteenth-century.