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WINNER Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2021)
WINNER Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2021)
WINNER CLIO History Prize (Ontario), Canadian Historical Association (2021)
WINNER Governor...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2020-10-09
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Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin is a twenty-five year research and community based book. It brings forward Indigenous thought, history, and acts of resistance as viewed through the survivors of residential school who through certain aspects of their young lives were able...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2020-08-31
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Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when it welcomed home nearly 400,000 Canadians after service overseas...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2020-08-26
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When Rachel and her husband, Avrumeh, escape from the Siemiatycze ghetto in Poland one cold winter night in 1942 with their four-year-old daughter, Chana, they are desperate for refuge. Turned away by their closest friends, they are forced to wander the countryside...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2020-08-20
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In Debrecen, Hungary, Judy grows up in a warm and lively family, but when the Nazis invade in 1944, she is crowded into a ghetto, her life now shaped by fear and hopelessness. When the cattle cars take Judy and her family to Auschwitz-Birkenau, she truly leaves her...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2020-08-15
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From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs—particularly involuntary sterilization programs—were responding both nationally and...
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AU Press
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2020-07-28
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We Remember the Coming of the White Man chronicles the history of the Sahtú (Mountain Dene) and Gwinch’in People in the extraordinary time of the early 20th century. Chapters are transcripts of oral histories by ten Elders about their recollections of the early days of...
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UpRoute Books and Media
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2020-07-17
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Drawing on rich historical research, Silvia Federici maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the “new enclosures” at the heart of the present phase of global...
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Between the Lines
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2020-06-15
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The Newfoundland and Labrador of yesterday was more colourful than you might remember, and no one is more qualified to be your guide through the strange terrain of local history than folklorist and storyteller Dale Jarvis. In this book, you will come face to face with...
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Flanker Press
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2020-06-08
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Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-FictionWinner, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingFinalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction Finalist, Margaret and John Savage Award for Best First Book (Non-fiction)A Hill Times' 100 Best Books in 2020...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2020-06-02
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Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to Action in June 2015, governments, churches, non-profit, professional and community organizations, corporations, schools and universities, clubs and individuals have asked: “How can I/we participate in...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2020-05-29
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Ferenc Andai is one of approximately 6,000 Jewish Hungarian men conscripted to work as forced labourers in the copper mines of Bor, Serbia, between 1943 and 1944. Subject to the whims of cruel Hungarian commanders and German overseers, the men are forced to work to...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2020-05-15
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From award-winning CBC radio documentarian Karin Wells comes The Abortion Caravan, shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and winner of the Ontario Historical Society Award's Alison Prentice Award.
In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set...
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Second Story Press
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2020-04-21
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This engaging study of a still active women's organization is more than a centennial history to make its members proud. It also provides a lively exploration of a unique organization founded by early women leaders in higher education who offered friendship, community...
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Second Story Press
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2020-04-21
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"The Art of War" is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare and it is commonly...
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Hash Books
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2020-03-01
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Civilian Internment in Canada initiates a conversation about not only internment, but also about the laws and procedures—past and present—which allow the state to disregard the basic civil liberties of some of its most vulnerable citizens. Exploring the connections,...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2020-02-28
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In 1944, as Budapest’s Jews begin to suffer under German occupation, eleven-year-old Zsuzsi (Susie) takes to her diary to write about her friends and family as she copes with what it means to be persecuted. Precocious and charming, Susie records the mundane along with...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2019-12-08
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In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous-settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity and how the Canadian state systematically marginalizes Indigenous people....
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U of R Press
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2019-11-23
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Over the past fifty years, Canada’s Indigenous Affairs department (now two departments with more than 30 federal co-delivery partners) has mushroomed into a “super-province” delivering birth-to-death programs and services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. This...
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Signature Editions
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2019-11-15
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This is a comprehensive history of Brigus, a small fishing community located in Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, which dates back to around 1612, when John Guy sold half of the harbour to the Spracklin family. Located in a sheltered bay, Brigus has...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2019-11-13
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