The (Un)Making of the Modern Family
- Copyright year: 2008
The Grand Experiment
Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies
- Copyright year: 2008
Crisis of Conscience
Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War
The first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War.
- Copyright year: 2008
White But Not Equal
Check out "A Class Apart" - the new PBS American Experience documentary that explores this historic case! In 1952 in Edna, Texas, Pete Hernández, a twenty-one-year-old cotton picker, got into a fight with several men and was dragged from a tavern, robbed, and beaten. Upon ...
- Copyright year: 2008
Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War
This is the story of a man and an institution. A world-renowned psychiatrist and first director-general of the World Health Organization, Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century, yet is little-known today.
- Copyright year: 2008
Cautious Beginnings
Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939-51
A convincing portrait of Canada's active role in Second World War intelligence gathering.
- Copyright year: 2008
Contradictory Impulses
Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century
Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive study of the social, political, and economic interactions between Canada and Japan from the late nineteenth century until today.
- Copyright year: 2008
Contributing Citizens
Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66
A social and political history of Community Chests, and the development of Canada's welfare state.
- Copyright year: 2008
Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
- Copyright year: 2008
Solidarity First
Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion
Solidarity First examines the concept and practice of social cohesion in terms of its impact on, and significance for, workers in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2008
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village
Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002
A history of Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, spanning three eras of suburban and urban development and examining the controversial planning practices that shaped it.
- Copyright year: 2009
Kiss the kids for dad, Don’t forget to write
The Wartime Letters of George Timmins, 1916-18
The letters of Lance-Corporal George Timmins, who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, offer a rare glimpse into the life and relationships, at home and abroad, of an ordinary Canadian soldier.
- Copyright year: 2009
Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance
Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
This book explores the means used by government officials, police officers, church representatives, and ordinary settlers to facilitate and justify colonization, their effects on Indigenous economic, political, social, and spiritual lives, and how they were resisted.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Nurture of Nature
Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55
This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity shaped the history of summer camps.
- Copyright year: 2009
Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Colonial Proximities traces the encounters between aboriginal peoples, mixed-race populations, Chinese migrants, and Europeans in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 2009
Canada's Voice
The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes
Canada’s Voice is the first comprehensive biography of a diplomat and scholar who shaped foreign policy during Canada’s golden age as a middle power.
- Copyright year: 2009
Becoming Native in a Foreign Land
Sport, Visual Culture, and Identity in Montreal, 1840-85
This richly illustrated book shows how English-speaking colonists in Montreal appropriated French Canadian and indigenous sports traditions to forge a new, “Canadian” identity, which marginalized French Canadians and Aboriginal peoples in their own land.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Technological Imperative in Canada
An Intellectual History
This highly original, seminal study of Canadian theorists of technology and morality shows that Canadian thinkers were not only original and intellectually au courant but also engaging and insightful.
- Copyright year: 2009