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  • Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 1

    Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

    by Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, Nicholas Rush Smith ...
    Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 24 No. 2, 2013

    by Jane Freeland, Peter Cook, Andrea McKenzie, Simon Devereaux, Elsbeth Heaman, Derek Murray, John Zucchi, Weiting Guo, Evgeny Efremkin, Nicole C. O’Byrne, Rebecca C. Hughes, Rosanne Waters, Jason Colby ...
    Series Book 24 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Beginning with Columbus’ 1493 report of kings among the “Indians,” European expeditionaries regularly perceived Indigenous leaders as kings during the first century of colonialism in the Americas. English and French narratives of the sixteenth century, following the models of early Spanish and Portuguese accounts, brought to light the existence of Aboriginal monarchs throughout the Americas, from ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    by Mark Milke ...
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    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colour-Coded

    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    by Constance Backhouse ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Promise of Schooling

    Education in Canada, 1800-1914

    by Paul Axelrod ...
    Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in this complex and dynamic period. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was schooling in the early nineteenth century? What lay behind the campaign to extend publicly funded ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Union of the Canadas 1841-1857

    The Growth of Canadian Institutions

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    Series Book 10 - The Canadian Centenary Series
    Volume X of the Canadian Centenary SeriesNow available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.J.M.S. Careless looks at how the Act of Union of 1841, which was ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • John Ralston Saul Reimagines Canada (4-Book Bundle)

    Reflections of a Siamese Twin, A Fair Country, The Comeback, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Canada has no greater interpreter and champion than John Ralston Saul, who for years has been challenging our common notions of Canada. These four books examine our history and myths, our relationships and modern reality, and together brilliantly portray a unique and remarkable country.Reflections of a Siamese TwinIn Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye to an examination of Canada ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Discovering Indigenous Lands

    The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies

    by Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, Tracey Lindberg ...
    This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Colonialism and Modern Social Theory

    by Gurminder K. Bhambra, John Holmwood ...
    Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised instead around ideas of nation state and capitalist economy.Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood address ... Read more

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  • Canadian Founding

    John Locke and Parliament

    by Janet Ajzenstat ...
    Series Book 44 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
    Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history ... Read more

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  • Old Ontario

    Essays in Honour of J M S Careless

    by David Keane ...
    In ten original studies, former students and colleagues of Maurice Careless, one of Canada’s most distinguished historians, explore both traditional and hitherto neglected topics in the development of nineteenth-century Ontario. Their papers incorporate the three themes that characterize their mentor’s scholarly efforts: metropolitan-hinterland relations; urban development; and the impact of ... Read more

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  • Property and Dispossession

    Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America

    by Allan Greer ...
    Series series Studies in North American Indian History
    Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and property, he deploys the concept of 'property formation' to consider the ways in which Europeans and their Euro-American descendants remade New World ... Read more

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