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Towards a New Ethnohistory engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct response to critiques...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2018-04-20
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In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria – just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings,...
Editeur :
Freehand Books
Parution :
2018-04-16
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In 1944, after German forces invade Hungary, the Zionist youth organization that twelve-year-old Tibor belongs to goes underground to avoid detection. When Tibor is separated from his family, he must rely on the support of his network, a courageous group under immense...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Parution :
2018-04-15
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“Leaving aside the usual political covens and an inclination to despair, Di Cintio’s lucid account of present-day Palestine is the inspired portrait of a nation in dialog with its ghosts past and future affirming its right to be. This is a necessary book for...
Editeur :
Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2018-04-10
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Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free Korea from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea’s struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese colonialism...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2018-04-01
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This trailblazing history of early British Columbia focuses on a single year, 1858, the year of the Fraser River gold rush — the third great massmigration of gold seekers after the Californian and Australian rushes in search of a new El Dorado. Marshall’s history...
Editeur :
Ronsdale Press
Parution :
2018-03-31
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Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI—with other agencies—feverishly collected “derogatory information” to undermine the renowned scientist’s influence...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2018-03-23
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A Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice chronicles Peter Kulchyski’s experiences with the Begade Shutagot’ine, a small community of a few hundred people living in and around Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), on the Mackenzie River in the heart of Canada’s Northwest...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2018-03-16
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When the train from Hungary to Auschwitz brings Judith face-to-face with death, her mother’s quick actions save her. At twenty-four years old, separated from her family, she struggles to stay alive in a system bent on humiliation and degradation, where surviving the...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Parution :
2018-03-15
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Challengers of the Sea brings you face to face with men and women who take on the best and the worst of what the Northwest Atlantic Ocean offers. Read gripping accounts of losing sons, husbands, fathers, brothers, and best friends to the ravages of unforgiving...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2018-02-28
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Challengers of the Sea brings you face to face with men and women who take on the best and the worst of what the Northwest Atlantic Ocean offers. Read gripping accounts of losing sons, husbands, fathers, brothers, and best friends to the ravages of unforgiving...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2018-02-28
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Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek. As Pinchas is sent on to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Parution :
2018-02-01
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For over a century now, the stately and prestigious Château Frontenac, which graces one of the most beautiful sites in Quebec City, has captured the imagination of visitors from all over the world. This is the fascinating story of how the Château's architecture has...
Editeur :
Éditions Continuité
Parution :
2018-01-25
Collection :
The Great Hotels of Canada
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On December 10, 1942, at the height of the Second World War, a crew of seven men boarded the bomber plane Time’s A Wastin’ and departed the American air base at Narsarsuaq, Greenland, on their way back to the United States via Goose Bay, Labrador.
After crossing the...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2018-01-24
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On December 10, 1942, at the height of the Second World War, a crew of seven men boarded the bomber plane Time’s A Wastin’ and departed the American air base at Narsarsuaq, Greenland, on their way back to the United States via Goose Bay, Labrador.
After crossing the...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2018-01-24
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In the fall of 1944, the Slovak National Uprising both endangers and saves Joseph Tomasov’s life. At twenty-two years old and Jewish, Joseph has been a constant target of the Nazis and their Slovak allies. Joining the resistance movement is his only way out, even though...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Parution :
2018-01-15
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In the Krakow-Plaszow forced labour camp, both Johnny and Sam quickly learn of the brutality of the new commandant, Amon Göth. At sixteen years old, both feel like they are walking a tightrope, where one wrong move can make them the target of Göth’s unpredictable...
Editeur :
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Parution :
2018-01-15
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Montreal hosted the Confederacy’s largest foreign secret service base during the Civil War.Montreal banks and other Canadian financial institutions held a million dollars or more in hard currency or gold to fund clandestine activities. When Jefferson Davis fled the U.S....
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2017-10-25
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Some liken formal histories to four-lane highways. Nick Fonda answers with a meandering country road, quietly charming, with a human face.
If all politics is local, so all history is local… and anecdotal. As the great urban thinker Jane Jacobs said, anecdotes are the...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2017-10-15
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The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and other communities in southern Ontario and beyond, its members were ordinary men facing extraordinary challenges at the Somme,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2017-10-12
Collection :
Canadian Unit, Formation, and Command Histories
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