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  • The Canadian Rangers

    A Living History

    by P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Series series Studies in Canadian Military History
    The Canadian Rangers stand sentinel in the farthest reaches of our country. For more than six decades, this dedicated group of citizen-soldiers has quietly served as Canada’s eyes, ears, and voice in isolated coastal and northern communities from coast to coast to coast.How does this minimally trained and lightly equipped force make a meaningful contribution to national defence and to building ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • People, Politics, and Purpose

    Biography and Canadian Political History

    Edited by Greg Donaghy, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Series series The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
    Biography is “not on the periphery of history but in the middle of it,” historian Peter Waite astutely remarked. People, Politics, and Purpose brings the historian’s myriad tools to bear on Canadians, from prime ministers to lumberjacks to Indigenous leaders. Drawing on the rich details of biography – the what – the contributors also address the larger questions of motivation – the so what – that ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Joint Arctic Weather Stations

    Science and Sovereignty in the High Arctic, 1946-1972

    by Daniel Heidt, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    This is the first systematic account of the Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS), a collaborative science program between Canada and the United States that created a distinctive state presence in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from 1946-1972. These five meteorological stations, constructed at Eureka, Resolute, Isachsen, Mould Bay, and Alert, became remote hubs for science and sovereignty, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Blockades or Breakthroughs?

    Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State

    Edited by Yale D. Belanger, P. Lackenbauer ...
    Blockades have become a common response to Canada's failure to address and resolve the legitimate claims of First Nations. Blockades or Breakthroughs? debates the importance and effectiveness of blockades and occupations as political and diplomatic tools for Aboriginal people.The adoption of direct action tactics like blockades and occupations is predicated on the idea that something drastic is ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Breaking Through

    Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic

    Edited by Wilfrid Greaves, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Globalization, climate change, and increased geopolitical competition are having a profound impact on the Arctic, affecting how we understand both sovereignty and security within the region. In Breaking Through, a diverse group of emerging and established scholars examine Arctic sovereignty and security, rarely examined together, and present a theoretically robust study of Arctic sovereignty and ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada

    by P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Adam Lajeunesse, Frederic Lasserre, James Manicom ...
    Series Book 5 - Beyond Boundaries
    China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is an in-depth studies of China's increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and the potential impacts of greater Chinese presence in the circumpolar region, exploring resource development, shipping, scientific research, governance, and security.Drawing on extensive research in Chinese ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Reconsidering Confederation

    Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999

    by J.R. Miller, Marcel Martel, Colin Coates, Martin Paquet, Maxime Gohier, Phillip Buckner, Robert Wardhaugh, Barry Ferguson, Patricia Roy, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ken S. Coates, Bill Waiser, Raymond B. Blake, Andre Legare ...
    July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and hundreds of First Nations, its leaders repeatedly debated Canada's purpose, and the benefits and drawbacks of the choice to be Canadian. Reconsidering ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • An Inside Look at External Affairs During the Trudeau Years

    The Memoirs of Mark MacGuigan

    by Mark MacGuigan ...
    Between these covers, you will read about the life of an individual—Mark MacGuigan—who dedicated his life to bettering Canada. From his fascination with the law to his interest in politics and international affairs, Mark made a lasting impact on virtually every area to which he turned his efforts . . . from the forward by Paul MartinMark MacGuigan was appointed Canada’s Secretary of State for ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    Two Years Below the Horn

    Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946

    by Andrew Taylor ...
    Narrated by Speechki ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. When mental strain led the operation’s first commander to resign, Taylor—a military engineer with extensive prewar surveying experience—became the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Roots of Entanglement

    Essays in the History of Native-Newcomer Relations

    by Myra Rutherdale, Kerry Abel, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Roots of Entanglement offers an historical exploration of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and European newcomers in the territory that would become Canada. Various engagements between Indigenous peoples and the state are emphasized and questions are raised about the ways in which the past has been perceived and how those perceptions have shaped identity and, in turn, interaction both ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Canada and the Changing Arctic

    Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship

    by Franklyn Griffiths, Rob Huebert, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to a competitive and inherently conflictual “race for resources”? Or will the Arctic become a region ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Two Years Below the Horn

    Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946

    by Andrew Taylor ...
    In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. When mental strain led the operation’s first commander to resign, Taylor—a military engineer with extensive prewar surveying experience—became the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook