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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993955860Author Hammerson PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Hammerson PetersPublisher Hammerson PetersWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book is a sweeping reexamination of the evolution of the state, covering the indigenous orders of pre-Columbian America, the Spanish, Portuguese, and British Empires in the Americas, and their major successor states of Mexico, Brazil, and the United...

Will Ferguson has spent the past three years criss-crossing Canada: in a helicopter above the barren-lands of the sub-arctic; in a canoe with his four-year old son; on seaplanes; and on the Underground Railroad. Ferguson's travels have taken him from...

Will Ferguson has spent the past three years criss-crossing Canada: in a helicopter above the barren-lands of the sub-arctic; in a canoe with his four-year old son; on seaplanes; and on the Underground Railroad. Ferguson's travels have taken him from...

In May 1776 more than two hundred Indian warriors descended the St. Lawrence River to attack Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal. In just three days' fighting, the Native Americans and their British and Canadian allies forced the American...

Using a wide array of published and unpublished sources, McLean examines in detail nine group emigrations that left western Inverness between 1785 and 1802 for Glengarry County in Upper Canada (now Ontario). She describes how, once in North America, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741925238Author Karl-Heinz RaachFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Koenemann.Com GmbHPublisher Koenemann.Com GmbHWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm)...

Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550020854Author Hereward SeniorFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991980703Author Graham SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint CissPublisher CissWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771894831Author Wilson DuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Government of British ColumbiaPublisher Government of British ColumbiaWeight(grams)...

ncluding a new preface by the author, Irish Migrants in the Canadas probes beyond the aggregate statistics of most studies of the migration process. Bruce Elliott traces the genealogies, movements, landholding strategies, and economic lives of 775...

"Is your mother good?" "Are you good?" "Do you want to come live with me?" Inuit adults often playfully present small children with difficult, even dangerous, choices and then dramatize the consequences of the child's...

Between 1860 and 1935, about 100,000 impoverished children were emigrated from Britain to Canada to seek a new life in the "land of plenty." Charities, religious workers, philanthropists, and state-run institutions such as workhouses and orphanages all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774712726Author Jane MorriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Nimbus Publishing LtdPublisher Nimbus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 471g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886451738Author IrppFormat PaperbackPage Count 449Imprint The Institute for Research on Public PolicyPublisher The Institute for Research on Public Policy

Loyalists in Nova Scotia hoped that their anticipated prosperity, to be achieved with British aid, would show that the American rebellion had been a terrible mistake. But prosperity was elusive. The loyalists were disappointed not only by their treatment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998365241Author Greg KoabelFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies. Canada and the Third World...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228865001Author Chris KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 277g

No Place Like Home chronicles a little-known episode in Canada's national history: when internment was first employed during the Great War under the War Measures Act.Highlighting the problem of immigrant fit and belonging, Bohdan Kordan shows how legal,...

During the nineteenth-century, the writing of history in English-speaking Canada changed from promotional efforts by amateurs to an academically-based discipline. Professor Taylor charts this transition in a comprehensive history. The early historians -...

From early reports of the invention to its wide application during World War I, photography created anticipation and participation in the modern world. A History of Photography in Canada: Volume 1 captures this phenomenon by looking at hundreds of early...

There have been many things written about Canada's violent siege of Kanehsata:ke and Kahnawa:ke in the summer of 1990, but When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance is the first book from the perspective of Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel,...

This new volume of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada (DCB / DBC) presents well-written, carefully documented and meticulously edited biographies of Canadians from all walks of life. Its literary and scholarly...

Whitehorse traces the storied past of Yukon's capital city, from its origins in ancient aboriginal camps through the epic changes of the Klondike Gold Rush, the building of the Alaska Highway, and the settlement of First Nations land claims. Set amidst...

In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each and officials vowed to protect the rest. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed, all...

Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for remaking space and population. This was especially true in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada, where money - in many forms -...

The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313246302Author Phillip A. BucknerFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the colony. The Miramichi...

The quarter century that followed the end of the Second World War was marked by intense social and economic transformation: the changing face of postwar capitalism, a revolution in communications technology, the rise of youth culture, and the pronounced...

Indigenous activism put small-town northern Ontario on the map in the 1960s and early 1970s. Kenora, Ontario, was home to a four-hundred-person march, popularly called "Canada's First Civil Rights March," and a two-month-long armed occupation of a small...

The 1840s were a period of rapid growth and social conflict in Montreal. The city's public life was marked by a series of labour conflicts and bloody sectarian riots; at the same time, the ways that elites wielded power and ordinary people engaged in the...

Part detective story, part historical inquiry, this book explores the countless attempts to locate the chief's grave and raise a monument in his honour. The first substantial book on the subject based primarily on Canadian material and packed with vivid...

Making extensive use of the National Archives and the Archives of Ontario, Styran and Taylor unveil previously unpublished information about the construction of the canals, including technical plans and drawings from a wide variety of sources. They...

An exploration of the critique of modern life and mass culture in wartime and postAn exploration of the critique of modern life and mass culture in wartime and postSecond World War Canada.About the AuthorCAReviews"A fine piece of work. This book is...

Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative interpretation of government policy toward Ukrainian Canadians. Drawing extensively on Canadian, British,...

A retelling of the colonization of marginal lands among the boreal fringes of Canada.A retelling of the colonization of marginal lands among the boreal fringes of Canada.About the AuthorJ. David Wood is professor emeritus of geography, York University,...