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A world of paper
How the administrative personnel in Louis XIV's foreign office developed innovative structures and procedures for managing the flow of information.
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Hearts of freedom
Between 1975 and 1997 some three million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians fled atrocities in their home countries, with over 210,000 resettling in Canada. Hearts of Freedom is an oral history based on interviews with 175 former refugees, documenting their moving accounts of oppression, perilo...
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Passage to promise land
How the Chinese community became an indispensable part of multicultural Canada.
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Au risque de la conversion
A pioneering study of twentieth-century Quebec missionary work as an experience of intercultural encounter.
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Behead and cure
Behead and Cure explores the ethics of humanitarianism during the Vietnam War through the experiences of medical teams from the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. It brings civilian women, who played key roles in all aspects of caring for the injured and dying, from the sidelines of t...
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People, state, and war under the french regime in canada
Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary...
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The productions of time
Myth criticism flourished in the mid-twentieth century under the powerful influence of Canadian thinker Northrop Frye. With the aim of rehabilitating myth criticism for our time, Michael Dolzani sketches an anatomy of the imagination as demonstrated in the total body of its productions, including...
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Social movements in latin america
Examining the mosaic of protest and contestation in Latin America.
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Milton's leveller god
David Williams advances a progressive and democratic interpretation of Milton's epics to show they are more relevant than ever. He traces echoes between Milton's texts and Leveller writings that advocated for popular rule, extended suffrage, and religious tolerance, arguing that Milton's God is s...
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Canadian policing in the 21st century
A veteran police officer provides insights into decades of unprecedented change.
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Distributing status
How awards, decorations, and medals bestow social standing.
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Secessionism
There are numerous regions where movements for sovereignty or independence are seen as serious alternatives to the status quo. Quebec, Scotland, Catalonia, and Flanders have followed a generally non-violent, political process, while movements in Kashmir, the Basque Country, Chechnya, and Kurdista...
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The once and future great lakes country
A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.
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The price of gold
The Price of Gold traces the troubling history of one of Canada’s most contaminated mine sites and the Indigenous community, labour unions, and environmentalists who fought back against the federal government and the mining companies.
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Expelling the plague
A ground-breaking study about plague control measures in medieval and early modern Croatia.
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Socialist yugoslavia and the non-aligned movement
In September 1961, Socialist Yugoslavia formally established a partnership with states in the Global South called the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement understands the NAM as a site for transnational cultural exchange, and explores the movement’s decolo...
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Always a part of the land
Revealing how, for over a century, Indigenous Peoples have challenged narrow interpretations of Canadian history found at historic sites and alongside monuments, Cody Groat calls for a critical reinterpretation of how we think about the past.
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From peasants to labourers
Canadian immigration from the Russian Empire is often portrayed as consisting entirely of non-Slavic minorities and religious refugees. Vadim Kukushkin shows that a large number of immigrants were peasants from Russia's Ukrainian and Belarusan provinces attracted by Canadian wage-earning opportun...
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Projecting canada
The National Film Board of Canada, now in its seventh decade, is internationally acclaimed as a beacon of non-commercial filmmaking. In Projecting Canada Zoë Druick shows that the NFB, born out of a nation-building project, continues to be inextricably involved in the crises of nation, technology...
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Filling the ranks
A groundbreaking work on the management of Canadian manpower in the First World War.
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Abenaki daring
The life and work of an Abenaki man illuminate the troubled history of Indigenous peoples.
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The making of cossack ukraine
The Making of Cossack Ukraine traces the evolution of Ukrainian political thought and culture from the sixteenth century to 1714. The book shows how interplay between various political cultures contributed to the development of territorial, religious, ethnic and national visions that reflected ea...
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Canada’s victorian oil town
In the early 1850s, the oil industry had a major impact on the resource town of Petrolia, Ontario. Christina Burr explores the ways in which the industry provided a common cultural identification that helped Petrolia change from a rough shanty-town of disreputable land speculators and "wildcatter...
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Reimagining illness
Reimagining Illness analyzes works by eighteenth-century British women writers alongside contemporaneous medical texts to argue that the circulation of medical knowledge in this period was not determined only by scientific rationalism and male expertise but rather shaped in part by women’s accoun...
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Conquest and survival in colonial guatemala, fourth edition
A landmark contribution to research on Mesoamerica, updated and expanded.
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Mediating spaces
In Mediating Spaces James Robertson offers an intellectual history of the diverse supranational politics of Yugoslav socialism, beginning with its birth in the 1870s and concluding with its violent collapse in the 1990s.
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Iroquois in the west
Intriguing tales of Indigenous peoples who made their homes across the North American West.
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Berruyer's bible
Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of the French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within ...
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The possession of barbe hallay
When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec in 1660, people grew worried about the arrival of evil forces. Barbe Hallay, a teenaged servant, started to act as if possessed, and a miller accused of using dark arts to torment her was executed. Mairi Cowan explores this case of demonic infest...
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Making ukraine
This collection considers how, when, and under what conditions the borders that historically defined the country of Ukraine were agreed upon. A diverse set of transnational contexts are explored, focusing mostly on the critical period of 1917–54 and revealing the shared history of territory and s...
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Memories, myths, and dreams of an ojibwe leader
In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published.
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To make a village soviet
Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out Jehovah’s Witness farmers for removal from society, arguing that what happened in Bila Tserkva demonstrates both the sheer ambition of state plans for the Sovietization of borderland communities and a minority religious community’s enduring re...
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The invisible injured
The Canadian military’s battle with soldiers’ psychological trauma.
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Wilful neglect
Wilful Neglect explores the devastating consequences of the Department of Indian Affairs’ responses to tuberculosis among First Nations in Canada from 1867 to 1945, demonstrating a direct link between historic health policies and modern disparities.
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The black atlantic reconsidered
A survey of English and French black Canadian writing and its transnational connections from the eighteenth century to the present.
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First among unequals
How political elites shape public policy, viewed through the lens of Premier Danny Williams' headline-grabbing tactics.
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The past, present, and promise of the peace and friendship treaties
Forged in respect and peace, but later abrogated by the British, the Peace and Friendship Treaties bound nations as equals. This powerful collection argues that the treaties are still alive and are foundational to any just relationship between Indigenous and settler peoples.
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The russian military intervention in syria
The Russian Military Intervention in Syria examines Russia’s foreign policy and attempts to protect its interests in the Middle East and former Soviet territory. Providing historical context and revealing the causes of Russia’s use of military power, this book is an authoritative overview of Russ...
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Securing the continental skies
Securing the Continental Skies uses post–Cold War access to archival sources to explore North American air defence in the 1940s and 1950s, challenging assumptions of the golden age of Canadian foreign relations and offering a new assessment of military co-operation between Canada and the United S...
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The racial mosaic
The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how cultural pluralism in Canada was founded upon, and easily coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism. Looking at how Canadians interpreted diversity before multiculturalism became official policy, it compels readers to consider how racism has structured Cana...
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A black american missionary in canada
“Hilary Neary makes a major contribution to scholarship by placing the reader in conversation with Chambers’s letters, thereby making available an untold story as a voice once silenced comes to life.” Noel Leo Erskine, Emory UniversityLewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Can...
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Quebec’s eastern townships and the world
Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World reveals a region with its own gravity, sense of being, and worldly connections, marked not by its insularity but by its long history as a central meeting ground. Contributors explore Indigenous land use, regional mobility, linguistic diversity, economic pr...
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Royally wronged
Written primarily by current Royal Society of Canada members, these essays explore the historical contribution of the RSC to the production of ideas and policies that shored up white settler privilege, underpinning the disastrous interaction between Indigenous peoples and white settlers. Royally ...
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Ideologies of race
A challenge to the conventional understanding of race in Russian and Eurasian history.
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The art of sharing
The untold history of how Ottawa tackled fiscal inequalities among the resentful provinces.
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The miramichi fire
How one of Canada's greatest natural disasters has been remembered and forgotten.
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Tax, order, and good government
The history of Confederation rewritten through the redistribution of wealth.
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How to do things with forms
The Oulipo is a literary think tank that brings together writers and mathematicians. This book assesses the work of the group, explores where it came from, and envisages its future. Redefining the Oulipo’s key concept of the constraint in a clear and rigorous way, Chris Andrews weighs the roles o...
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The writings of david thompson, volume 1
A vivid account of life in the fur trade and a cornerstone of Canadian literature.
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Doctor to the north
Dr John Burgess was awarded the Order of Canada for his services to the Inuit and his teaching and research at McGill University. In Doctor to the North he chronicles his remarkable career, from the early influence of his physician father, to his medical training at McGill, in the US, and abroad,...
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Whose mission, whose orders?
Revealing the secret struggles between British politicians and generals to control the army in Northern Ireland.
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Flax americana
How urban painters and prairie farmers brought a flax and oilseed empire to North America.
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Dangers of youth
In 1912 French legislators established a distinct criminal justice system for juveniles, enshrining probation at its heart and decriminalizing offences committed by children under the age of thirteen. Dangers of Youth examines critical debates about juvenile liability and the appropriate treatmen...
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The least possible fuss and publicity
In The Least Possible Fuss and Publicity Paul Evans recounts changes to Canada's postwar immigration policy and the events, ideas, and individuals that propelled that change. Through extensive primary research in the archives of federal departments and the parliamentary record, together with cont...
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Wars of conviction
Wars of Conviction explores the lives of Canadian transnational fighters, illuminating why they travelled abroad to take up arms for others, their experiences during and after battle, and the legal and political legacies that followed them home.
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Pensionnats du canada : l’expérience métisse
Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de christianiser » les enfants autochtones, il fallait les éloign...
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How peary reached the pole
A fascinating account of life on Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole Expedition.
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L.m. montgomery and gender
The celebrated author receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of literature, and Montgomery enthusiasts, this collection builds on current scholarship in its approach to the complexity of gender...
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Transatlantic subjects
A reinterpretation of the place of colonial Canada within a reconstructed British Empire that focuses on culture and social relations.
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Dominion over palm and pine
From the expansionist fervour of the late nineteenth century through the Cold War, dreamers campaigned for Canada’s union with the British Caribbean. Dominion over Palm and Pine traces the transnational ebb and flow of these campaigns, situating them in the global history of colonialism and white...
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Canada and the united nations
Experts offer new approaches to Canadian internationalism in a candid re-evaluation of Canada’s contributions to the United Nations.
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Heirs of an ambivalent empire
Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of ordinary Canadiens who used kinship ties to navigate the space between sovereign Indigenous homelands and the French colonial government in the Hudson Bay watershed from the early 1660s to the 1780s – leading to the emergence of a new Indigenous...
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The second greatest show on earth
Grounded in discussions of cultural capital, dramaturgy, and modernity, The Second-Greatest Show on Earth is an in-depth exploration of the motives that guided the work of Henry Bergh (1813–1888), founder and president of the American SPCA.
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Boundless dominion
A study of the ideas – especially regarding providence, politics, nature, and history – that influenced the early Canadian Presbyterian worldview.
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Urban enigmas
The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.
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Mad flight?
How migrants from Quebec ended up stranded on São Paulo’s coffee plantations in the 1890s.
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Collapse of a country
A rare first-hand account of the violent implosion and ongoing humanitarian tragedy of the world’s youngest state.
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The grand regulator
The first full-length study of the historical failure of teacher education in Canada.
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Cold war workers
Cold War Workers explores how security labour transformed the lives of individuals, families, and communities in Canada in ways that were both predictable and surprising, with the militarization and colonization of Indigenous lives and lands being especially disruptive.
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Sacred ritual, profane space
A reassessment of earliest Christian worship spaces as a crucible of sanctity, identity, and cultic affiliation.
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Pensionnats du canada : l’histoire, partie 2, de 1939 à 2000
Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de christianiser » les enfants autochtones, il fallait les éloign...
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The sixties
A new approach to one of the most memorable decades in recent history.
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Making men in the age of sail
Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late-nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail explores how sailors became nostalgic symbols of maritime prowess and heroic masculinity. The book argues that maritime writing preserved ideas of masculinity in an era when modernization was chal...
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Building jewish roots
Thousands of young North American Jews visit Israel every year on organized, educational, heritage tours. Israel Experience Programs present religion, homeland, and nation to participants in compelling and sometimes unsettling ways. Supported by Jewish communal institutions, these programs are en...
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The wild word
The Wild Word presents new readings of the way animals are used in the Gospels to create, reinforce, and transgress social boundaries, as well as to enforce and collapse the categories of domesticity/wildness and natural/unnatural.
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Listening to the fur trade
Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. Daniel Laxer uncovers songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-da...
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Loyalist land ownership in upper canada’s norfolk county, 1792–1851
Loyalist Land Ownership in Upper Canada’s Norfolk County, 1792–1851 is a comparative study of landholding among Loyalist and non-Loyalist settlers in Upper Canada.
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The fighting newfoundlander, new edition
When Word War I began, Newfoundland had been without any kind of military organization for almost half a century. Public-spirited citizens immediately formed themselves into a Patriotic Association and within sixty days had recruited, partially equipped, and dispatched 537 officers and men overseas.
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Cultural change among the algonquin in the nineteenth century
The nineteenth century was a time of upheaval for the Algonquin people. Focusing on those living around Lake Timiskaming and Lake Abitibi along the Ontario-Quebec border over a century, this book reveals the agency behind cultural change and shows how and why the Algonquin made certain deliberate...
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Fraudulent lives
Fraudulent Lives analyzes the scale, meaning, and consequences of welfare fraud in a Western nation from the seventeenth century to present day. It argues that fraud is written into the fabric of the founding statues of the British welfare state – and eliminating it has never been in the nation’s...
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Who pays for canada?
An interdisciplinary collection of essays showing Canadian perspectives on fiscal fairness.
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In the public good
In the Public Good examines the trajectory of eugenic ideas in Ontario in the early twentieth century, when the eugenics movement gained support for the solutions it offered to social ills of the day. Koester focuses on key legal events that influenced eugenic ideas, showing how the law was used ...
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Communities of the soul
Religion is fundamental to contemporary Puerto Rican society. The first synthesis of the religious history of the island, Communities of the Soul explores religion in Puerto Rico and the beliefs, practices, and religious diversity of its past and present – from the cosmology of the indigenous Taí...
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The october crisis, 1970
This first-hand account of a seminal Canadian crisis challenges the notion that civil rights and political liberties were unjustifiably restricted.
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Blatant injustice
Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada. Walter Igersheimer's memoir exposes this bleak period in the British and Can...
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Between education and catastrophe
A detailed account of the educational debate that raged between progressives and traditionalists in postwar Manitoba.
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Echoes of care
Echoes of Care chronicles the historical shift that created complicated interdependences between medical intervention, language, and education to shape deaf people’s experiences in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.
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Creating this place
The women of St John's and the making of Newfoundland society.
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How it happened
A detailed, first-hand account of the atrocities committed against Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
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The spirit of industry and improvement
The notion of improvement permeated social and political discourse in colonial Canadian society. From agriculture to building roads and mills to defining correct habits and behaviour, Nova Scotia's improvers embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government.
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Taking to the streets
A historical perspective on public life and popular politics in the streets of Montreal.
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The empire within
A compelling study of the global dimensions and local particularities of political activism in Sixties Montreal.
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Ethnopsychiatry
What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a series of articles by Henri Ellenberger, presented here for the first time in English.
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Portrait of an english migration
Portrait of an English Migration recounts the history of those who left North Yorkshire for North America between the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Focusing on individual stories of migrants and their families, this book provides many personal glimpses of the migration exper...
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Leaving christianity
Why Canadians started to walk away from organized Christianity in the 1960s and how that defection became an exodus.
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Sanctuary in pieces
Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protection and hospitality over two centuries and the shifting political terrain upon which sanctuar...
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Early modern spectatorship
Essays that converge on the idea of spectatorship in the theatre, in criminal punishment, in religious worship, in urban perambulation, and even where least expected.
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I sing the body politic
The end of George W. Bush's imperial presidency means that the wreckage of the republic's political ideals is now subject to a vigorous reassessment. In essays by five senior scholars, major works of American literature and film are analyzed in the context of a larger set of arguments about Ameri...
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Réinventer montréal
Réinventer Montréal retrace les idées et les actions de trois urbanistes ayant œuvré à repenser le développement de Montréal dans les années 1960, soit Hans Blumenfeld, Jean-Claude La Haye et Claude Robillard à partir d’un examen de leurs archives personnelles et des plans et des documents d’urba...
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Transatlantic upper canada
Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights. Kevin Hutchings provides an en...
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