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  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 33 No. 2, 2023

    by Benjamin Bryce, Benjamin Bryce, Julie McIntyre*, Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Chelsea Davis, Steve Stein, Kathleen A. Brosnan, Marie-Joëlle Duchesne, Sarah Carter0, M. Max Hamon1, Grace Peña Delgado2, Benjamin Hoy3, Andrew Watson4, Brian Froese5, Royden Loewen6, Donald Wright7, Hamar Foster8, Jan Noel9, Donald Smith0 ...
    Series Book 33 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Sometime in 1866, a Spaniard named Josep Soler (1840–1906) arrived in Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand. Born in Constantí in the Camp de Tarragona winemaking region south of Barcelona, Soler came from a winemaking family and was a winemaker himself before leaving Spain. He planted his first New Zealand vineyard shortly after arriving in Whanganui, and his business life was one of uninterrupted ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Against the Odds: The Indigenous Rights Cases of Thomas R. Berger

    by Drew Ann Wake, Michael Jackson, KC, Thomas R. Berger, QC OC, Jean Teillet ...
    Against the Odds documents the remarkable achievements of Thomas R. Berger in the legal field, including his pioneering work in advocating for Indigenous rights that courts in Canada and the US had previously overlooked. Mid-career, Justice Thomas Berger accepted the challenge of leading the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry in Canada’s Northwest Territories. He organized the Inquiry to give ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Against the Odds: The Indigenous Rights Cases of Thomas R. Berger

    by Drew Ann Wake, Michael Jackson, KC, Jean Teillet, Dalee Sambo Dorough ...
    Narrated by John Heerema, Lorene Shyba ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    Against the Odds chronicles Thomas R. Berger's significant contributions to Indigenous rights advocacy in Canada and the United States. Mid-career, Berger led the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, conducting over thirty community hearings in the Northwest Territories to ensure that First Nations' voices were heard. Later, he also led public hearings on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • To Share, Not Surrender

    Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

    Edited by Peter Cook, Neil Vallance, John Lutz, Graham Brazier, Hamar Foster ...
    Too often, history and knowledge of Indigenous-settler conflict over land take the form of confidential reports prepared for court challenges. To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise.The authors take us back to when James Douglas and his family relocated to Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Essays in the History of Canadian Law

    The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon

    Edited by Hamar Foster, John McLaren ...
    Series Book 6 - Essays in the History of Canadian Law
    This sixth volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law turns to the a central theme in the history of British Columbia and the Yukon - law and order. In the early days of British sovereignty, the frenzied activity of the fur trade and the gold rush, along with clashes between settlers and Natives, made law enforcement a difficult business. Later, although ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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  • A Fair Country

    Telling Truths About Canada

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Short History of Quebec

    by John A. Dickinson, Brian Young ...
    John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • White Thinking

    'Profound' The Sunday Times

    by Lilian Thuram ...
    Translated by David Murphy, Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Cristina Johnston ...
    'Profound' The Sunday Times'Truly Significant' The Independent'Ambitious' The ConversationWhat does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin colour, is it also a way of thinking? If so, how did it come about, and why?In this book, drawing on history, personal experience and activist literature, the former footballer and World Champion Lilian Thuram looks at the origins and workings of white ... Read more

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  • The Empire Within

    Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal

    by Sean Mills ...
    Series Book 23 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
    In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonization to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Constructing Suburbs

    Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth

    by Ann Forsyth ...
    Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late sixties to the mid-nineties, during which time serious environmental and financial problems arose. The book outlines five major visions of the future development and examines forms of political, ... Read more

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  • Hard Lessons

    The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

    Edited by Dieter K. Buse, Peter Suschnigg, Mercedes Steedman ...
    This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Public intellectual in Canada

    by Nelson Wiseman ...
    This illuminating, entertaining, and timely volume examines the place and impact of public intellectuals in our rapidly changing and diverse society. Boasting an all-star cast of contributors – including some of Canada’s most prominent writers, journalists, and academics – it probes the role of public discourse and intellectual persuasion in shaping Canada’s past, present, and future.The Public ... Read more

    $39.99 USD