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  • A Line of Blood and Dirt

    Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

    by Benjamin Hoy ...
    The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    A Line of Blood and Dirt

    Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

    by Benjamin Hoy ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty.At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 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

    $19.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 25 No. 2, 2014

    by Ian Wereley, Eduardo Fabbro, Leah Knight, Ariel Beaujot, Benjamin Hoy, Robert M. Zecker, Greg Donaghy, Carolyn Podruchny, John Bonnett, Nathalie Charbonneau, Léon Robichaud, Joanne Burgess, Jessica Dimka, Carolyn Orbann, Lisa Sattenspiel, Victor Avdeev, Heather Coleman, Erica Fraser, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Heather J. Coleman, Erica L. Fraser ...
    Series Book 25 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The Carolingian conquest of Lombard Italy (774) was preceded by a massive effort on the part of the Church to convince the Frankish court of the legitimacy of the invasion. Relying on a terminology borrowed from Gregory I, the papal court produced an offensive portrait of the Lombards, depicted as treacherous, vile, and heathen. This article analyzes eighth-century papal epistolary and the Liber ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • To Know Our Many Selves

    From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies

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    To Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadian Studies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Professor Dirk Hoerder discusses this comprehensive examination of culture by highlighting its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included both sociological and political angles. Years later, as the study of other ethnicities was added to the cultural story of Canada, ... Read more

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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving ... Read more

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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

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  • The Great Wave : Price Revolutions And The Rhythm Of History

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Read more

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    There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous ... Read more

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    Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

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  • The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

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    An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work."Every Canadian should read [this] book." —Toronto StarSince its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the ... Read more

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