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“christopher stuart taylor”

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  • Flying Fish in the Great White North

    The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians

    by Christopher Stuart Taylor ...
    Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn’t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced discriminatory, anti-Black immigration policies, designed to restrict and prohibit the entry of Black Barbadians and Black West Indians. The Canadian state capitalized on the public’s fear of the “Black unknown” and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary

    Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future

    by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ...
    This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy.This ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Ants Among Elephants

    An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

    by Sujatha Gidla ...
    A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2017" Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new write... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire

    Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

    by Trevor Burnard ...
    Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain’s largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica’s vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood.Thistlewood’s diary, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • “Métis”

    Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood

    by Chris Andersen ...
    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 mixedness is not natural but stems from more than 150 years of ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Man in Blue Pyjamas (The)

    A Prison Memoir

    by Jalal Barzanji ...
    Translated by Sabah A. Salih ...
    Series series Wayfarer
    The style of my book must be in small pieces, as my life has been in pieces. (Jalal Barzanji) From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji endured imprisonment and torture under Saddam Hussein’s regime because of his literary and journalistic achievements—writing that openly explores themes of peace, democracy, and freedom. It was not until 1998, when he and his family took refuge in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Viola Desmond’s Canada

    A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land

    by Graham Reynolds ...
    Winner of the 2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction! The Miramichi Reader’s best non-fiction book of 2016In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon.Most Canadians are ... Read more

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  • Canada in Afghanistan

    The War So Far

    by Peter Pigott ...
    It has been said that Canada is a country with too much geography and too little history. Afghanistan has too much of both. As the war escalates in Afghanistan, more Canadians are asking what we are doing there. For a country that has specialized in peacekeeping, this war is a shock one that we have not yet comprehended. As the casualties mount, Canadians will want to know why we are there.Canada ... Read more

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  • The Backwoods of Canada

    Enriched edition. Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America

    by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill, Sean Day ...
    In "The Backwoods of Canada," Catharine Parr Strickland Traill presents a vivid and richly detailed account of her experiences in the Canadian wilderness during the mid-19th century. Employing a lyrical yet straightforward prose style, Traill immerses readers in the natural beauty, hardships, and cultural realities of life in the backwoods. Her writing reflects the Romantic literary movement, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is God a Racist?

    The Right Wing in Canada

    by Stanley Barrett ...
    Series series Heritage
    ‘God is a racist’—so goes a statement published in the literature of the Western Guard, a white-supremacist, anti-semitic group in Toronto. It is one of a number of racist organizations that have sprung up in Canada since the Second World War. Stanley Barrett points out in this disquieting study that although many of the principles of such organizations are offensive to the vast majority of ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • The Nurture of Nature

    Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

    by Sharon Wall ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society Series
    Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies – antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity – shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Fighting for Women's Rights

    The Extraordinary Adventures of Anna Leonowens

    by Moushumi Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    From her time growing up in India and the Royal Court of Siam, Anna (made famous as the "I" in the movie The King and I) developed a fiercely independent nature that she brought with her to North America. As a well-known author, Anna toured America landing in Halifax where she single-handedly created an art school for girls - later to become the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She devoted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD