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Acts of Occupation
Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 1918-25
This fascinating tale of the rivalries and intrigues that played out as Canada secured the Arctic illuminates an under-explored era in Canadian foreign policy.
2012, Shortlisted - Canadian Political History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2011
Wife to Widow
Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal
The diversity of women’s lives as wives then as widows negotiating the law, patriarchy, family relationships, and the economy in 19th-century Montreal come alive in this first major study of widows in Canada.
2012, Winner - Prix Lionel Groulx, L'Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique francaise
2015, Shortlisted - The François-Xavier Garneau Medal, Canadian HIstorical Association
2012, Winner - Clio Award for Quebec, Canadian Historical Association
2013, Shortlisted - Canada Prize in Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences
2012, Shortlisted - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2012, Shortlisted - Canadian Political History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2011
Orienting Canada
Race, Empire, and the Transpacific
A hard-hitting reconsideration of Canadian foreign policy, Orienting Canada meticulously documents the dynamics of race and empire in the Transpacific from the 1907 race riots to Canada’s early involvement in Vietnam.
2012, Shortlisted - Canadian Political History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2011
Labour at the Lakehead
Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35
This book explores the early years of leftism in Canada through the prism of ethnicity and a dynamic yet divided community in northern Ontario.
2014, Winner - M. Elizabeth Arthur Award, Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society
- Copyright year: 2011
First Person Plural
Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship
Focusing on the 1990s, when debates over voice and representation were particularly explosive, McCall investigates a wide range of “told-to” narratives that have shaped the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Canada, and asks what is at stake in crafting a politics and ethics of collaboration.
2012, Shortlisted - Gabrielle Roy Prize, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures
2013, Shortlisted - Canada Prize in the Humanities, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Copyright year: 2011
Oral History on Trial
Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts
This compelling analysis of Aboriginal, legal, and anthropological concepts of fact and evidence argues for the inclusion of Aboriginal oral histories in Canadian courts, and pushes for a reconsideration of the Crown's approach to oral history.
2012, Joint winner - K.D. Srivastava Prize
- Copyright year: 2011