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Exposing the history of racism in Canada’s classrooms
Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Association awards
In School of Racism, Catherine Larochelle demonstrates how Quebec’s school system has, from its inception and...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2023-11-17
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Is delivering a swift death really a higher calling? Or is it just government-sanctioned murder?John Radclive hates being called Hangman. He is no murderous thug; he is a highly trained executioner who relies on science to bring God’s mercy to condemned criminals. As...
Editeur :
Tidewater Press
Parution :
2022-09-25
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Town and Crown is an illustrated history of the planning and development of Canada’s capital, filling a significant gap in our urban scholarship. It is the story of the transformation of the region from a subarctic wilderness portage to an attractive modern metropolis...
Editeur :
Invenire
Parution :
2022-08-10
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Town and Crown is an illustrated history of the planning and development of Canada’s capital, filling a significant gap in our urban scholarship. It is the story of the transformation of the region from a subarctic wilderness portage to an attractive modern metropolis...
Editeur :
Invenire
Parution :
2022-08-10
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The story of Nova Scotia’s inland communities begins with the Mi’kmaq, who established traditional gathering places in the heart of Mi’kma’ki. Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, European settlers, British Loyalists, and former soldiers were among those who...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2022-04-19
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“My parents were slaves in New York State. My master’s sons-in-law … came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know...
Editeur :
Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2022-01-25
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With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta’s conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and...
Editeur :
AU Press
Parution :
2021-11-25
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Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914–1945 looks at Canadian women’s experiences of, and contributions to, the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book tells the stories of women who worked as civilians, served...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2021-11-02
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WINNER Canadian Historical Association Indigenous History Book Prize (2022)
WINNER Canadian Historical Association Ontario CLIO Prize (2022)
WINNER Ontario Historical Society Indigenous History Award (2022)
WINNER Manitoba Book Awards Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-10-01
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WINNER J.J. Talman Award, Ontario Historical Society (2022)
NOMINATED Toronto Heritage Book Award (2022)
Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-10-01
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Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-09-10
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More than two thousand Canadian women served as army nurses overseas during the First World War. The opportunity to read a diary written by one of these women—a document which was, strictly speaking, not supposed to be kept in the first place—is a unique privilege.
A...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2021-09-01
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NOMINATED Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society, 2021
In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region: the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-08-01
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The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Palmer’s work...
Editeur :
AU Press and CCLH
Parution :
2021-05-31
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Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other’s integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants and their descendants.
As one of...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-04-30
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Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated from Nunavik to the High Arctic in...
Editeur :
Inhabit Media
Parution :
2021-04-21
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The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians. It was a year when decisions and actions, both in Canada and outside its...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2021-04-13
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Rough Justice is a history of policing and crime in early Newfoundland. It focuses on the period between the appointment of the first constables on the island in 1729 to the establishment of the Newfoundland Constabulary in 1871, now known as the Royal Newfoundland...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2021-03-31
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WINNER Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher (2022)
The Assiniboia school is unique within Canada’s Indian Residential School system. It was the first residential high school in Manitoba and one of the only residential schools in Canada to be located...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-03-19
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Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national messages that commonly reflect...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2021-03-19
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