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Friends and Enemies
Essays in Canada’s Foreign Relations
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487549848
Pub Date: April 2024
This book brings together a collection of important essays on Canadian foreign and defence policy written by award-winning political and military historian J.L. Granatstein.
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights
A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
Price:
$36.95
ISBN: 9781487523978
Pub Date: May 2022
A love story packed with gay history, this dual biography of a sexologist and his student sheds light on the early gay rights movement and the racist and imperial concepts that are embedded in queer politics.
Empire and Emancipation
Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850
Price:
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487541088
Pub Date: January 2022
Drawing upon the experiences of Scottish and Irish Catholics in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad, Empire and Emancipation sheds important new light on the complex relationship between Catholicism and the British Empire.
Smelter Wars
A Rebellious Red Trade Union Fights for Its Life in Wartime Western Canada
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487541125
Pub Date: January 2022
Smelter Wars examines a radical BC trade union’s struggle to survive from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Progressive Education
Revisioning and Reframing Ontario's Public Schools, 1919-1942
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487544799
Pub Date: December 2021
Through its examination of educational journals published throughout the interwar period and previously unexplored archival sources, this book illuminates how the present structure of curricula and schooling were achieved.
The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast
Price:
$63.00
ISBN: 9781487587949
Pub Date: May 2021
The first comprehensive look at the archaeological history of the Atlantic Northeast, this book presents the archaeology of the region from the earliest Indigenous occupation to the first centuries of European occupation.
Questions of Order
Confederation and the Making of Modern Canada
Price:
$31.95
ISBN: 9781487522186
Pub Date: December 2020
Canadian Confederation has long been assessed as a political moment that created a new "national" entity. This book breaks new ground by arguing that Confederation was an imperial event that generated new questions and ideas about the future of global political order.
After the Famine
The Irish Family Farm in Eastern Ontario, 1851–1881
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9781487523848
Pub Date: March 2020
In what began as an inquiry into the migration of his Irish ancestors to Canada, Edward J. Hedican tells the sweeping story of how Irish farmers came to settle in Eastern Ontario.
The Viking Immigrants
Icelandic North Americans
Price:
$41.95
ISBN: 9781442613669
Pub Date: March 2020
Each chapter in The Viking Immigrants is devoted to exploring Icelandic culture community through a particular methodological lens, from oral histories and material culture to histories of food and drink.
This Pilgrim Nation
The Making of the Portuguese Diaspora in Postwar North America
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442630666
Pub Date: January 2020
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.
Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies
The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802
Price:
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487503956
Pub Date: February 2019
This book provides a history of the French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802. Examining political conflict between white factions, as well as economic, social, and racial tensions, it argues that metropolitan news, ideas, language, and political culture played a key role in shaping the colonial revolution.
Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic
Traders, Priests, and Their Kin Travelling between North America and the Italian Peninsula, 1763–1846
Price:
$142.00
ISBN: 9781487504564
Pub Date: January 2019
A new examination of transatlantic mobility between early North America and the Italian peninsula. Based on a vast array of previously untapped archival sources, this book shows the international outlook and the multifaceted personalities of its protagonists.
Solemn Words and Foundational Documents
An Annotated Discussion of Indigenous-Crown Treaties in Canada, 1752-1923
Price:
$47.95
ISBN: 9781487594459
Pub Date: December 2018
In Solemn Words and Foundational Documents, Jean-Pierre Morin unpacks the complicated history of Indigenous treaties in Canada.
Fashioning the Canadian Landscape
Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era
Price:
$87.00
ISBN: 9781487500214
Pub Date: March 2018
In his book Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to America, Canada’s image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers.
Rough Work
Labourers on the Public Works of British North America and Canada, 1841–1882
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487521998
Pub Date: February 2018
Rough Work is an accessibly written yet rigorous study of the galvanization of a major segment of Canada’s labour force over four decades of social and economic transformation.
Perogies and Politics
Canada's Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991
Price:
$76.00
ISBN: 9781487500498
Pub Date: February 2018
In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it.

Friends and Enemies
Essays in Canada’s Foreign Relations
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487549848
Pub Date: April 2024
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights
A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
$36.95
ISBN: 9781487523978
Pub Date: May 2022
A love story packed with gay history, this dual biography of a sexologist and his student sheds light on the early gay rights movement and the racist and imperial concepts that are embedded in queer politics.
Empire and Emancipation
Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487541088
Pub Date: January 2022
Drawing upon the experiences of Scottish and Irish Catholics in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad, Empire and Emancipation sheds important new light on the complex relationship between Catholicism and the British Empire.
Smelter Wars
A Rebellious Red Trade Union Fights for Its Life in Wartime Western Canada
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487541125
Pub Date: January 2022
Smelter Wars examines a radical BC trade union’s struggle to survive from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Progressive Education
Revisioning and Reframing Ontario's Public Schools, 1919-1942
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487544799
Pub Date: December 2021
The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast
$63.00
ISBN: 9781487587949
Pub Date: May 2021
The first comprehensive look at the archaeological history of the Atlantic Northeast, this book presents the archaeology of the region from the earliest Indigenous occupation to the first centuries of European occupation.
Questions of Order
Confederation and the Making of Modern Canada
$31.95
ISBN: 9781487522186
Pub Date: December 2020
Canadian Confederation has long been assessed as a political moment that created a new "national" entity. This book breaks new ground by arguing that Confederation was an imperial event that generated new questions and ideas about the future of global political order.
After the Famine
The Irish Family Farm in Eastern Ontario, 1851–1881
$45.95
ISBN: 9781487523848
Pub Date: March 2020
In what began as an inquiry into the migration of his Irish ancestors to Canada, Edward J. Hedican tells the sweeping story of how Irish farmers came to settle in Eastern Ontario.
The Viking Immigrants
Icelandic North Americans
$41.95
ISBN: 9781442613669
Pub Date: March 2020
Each chapter in The Viking Immigrants is devoted to exploring Icelandic culture community through a particular methodological lens, from oral histories and material culture to histories of food and drink.
This Pilgrim Nation
The Making of the Portuguese Diaspora in Postwar North America
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442630666
Pub Date: January 2020
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.
Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies
The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487503956
Pub Date: February 2019
This book provides a history of the French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802. Examining political conflict between white factions, as well as economic, social, and racial tensions, it argues that metropolitan news, ideas, language, and political culture played a key role in shaping the colonial revolution.
Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic
Traders, Priests, and Their Kin Travelling between North America and the Italian Peninsula, 1763–1846
$142.00
ISBN: 9781487504564
Pub Date: January 2019
A new examination of transatlantic mobility between early North America and the Italian peninsula. Based on a vast array of previously untapped archival sources, this book shows the international outlook and the multifaceted personalities of its protagonists.
Solemn Words and Foundational Documents
An Annotated Discussion of Indigenous-Crown Treaties in Canada, 1752-1923
$47.95
ISBN: 9781487594459
Pub Date: December 2018
In Solemn Words and Foundational Documents, Jean-Pierre Morin unpacks the complicated history of Indigenous treaties in Canada.
Fashioning the Canadian Landscape
Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era
$87.00
ISBN: 9781487500214
Pub Date: March 2018
In his book Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to America, Canada’s image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers.
Rough Work
Labourers on the Public Works of British North America and Canada, 1841–1882
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487521998
Pub Date: February 2018
Rough Work is an accessibly written yet rigorous study of the galvanization of a major segment of Canada’s labour force over four decades of social and economic transformation.
Perogies and Politics
Canada's Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991
$76.00
ISBN: 9781487500498
Pub Date: February 2018
In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it.