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  • The Imperial Gridiron

    Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

    Finalist for the 2023 NASSH Anthologies Book AwardThe Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918. Students often arrived at Carlisle already engrained with Indigenous ideals of masculinity. On many occasions these ideals would come into conflict with the models of manhood created by the school’s original ... Leer más

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  • The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915

    Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915

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    Series series The West Unbound
    Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the “one man, one woman”model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book revises what we know about marriage and the gendered politics of late 19th century reform, shifts our understanding of Aboriginal history during that ... Leer más

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  • Female Husbands

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  • The Manly Art

    Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America

    "It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of ... Leer más

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  • Liberty and Sexuality

    The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade

    Pulitzer Prize–winning author David J. Garrow's stirring and essential history of the politics of abortion and America's battle for the right to chooseIn 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and more than forty years later the issue continues to spark controversy and divisiveness. But behind this historic legal case lie the battles women fought ... Leer más

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  • Mississauga Portraits

    Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada

    The word “Mississauga” is the name British Canadian settlers used for the Ojibwe on the north of Lake Ontario – now the most urbanized region in what is now Canada. The Ojibwe of this area in the early and mid-nineteenth century lived through a time of considerable threat to the survival of the First Nations, as they lost much of their autonomy, and almost all of their traditional territory.Donald ... Leer más

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  • Seen but Not Seen

    Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today

    Throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, the majority of Canadians argued that European "civilization" must replace Indigenous culture. The ultimate objective was assimilation into the dominant society.Seen but Not Seen explores the history of Indigenous marginalization and why non-Indigenous Canadians failed to recognize Indigenous societies and cultures as worthy of respect. ... Leer más

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  • Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada

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  • In Reckless Hands

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    The disturbing, forgotten history of America’s experiment with eugenics.In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilization of “habitual criminals” and the “feebleminded.” But in 1936, inmates at Oklahoma’s McAlester prison ... Leer más

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  • Strangers in Blood

    Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country

    The North American fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a vividly complex and changing social world. Strangers in Blood fills a major gap in fur trade literature by systematically examining the traders as a group -- their backgrounds, social patterns, domestic lives and families, and the problems of their offspring. ... Leer más

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