Welcome to Resisterville
American Dissidents in British Columbia
A compelling, highly readable study of American migration to the West Kootenays and of the counterculture values that created a vibrant society in the Canadian wilderness.
- Copyright year: 2014
Private Women and the Public Good
Charity and State Formation in Hamilton, Ontario, 1846-93
An engaging history of the Ladies Benevolent Society and Hamilton Orphan Asylum and a broad consideration of the ability of women’s charitable work to bridge the nineteenth-century boundaries of public and private spheres.
- Copyright year: 2014
Equality Deferred
Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84
A history of human rights law in Canada, with a focus on sex discrimination in British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 2014
Oral History at the Crossroads
Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement
Drawing on a collaborative research project, this book provides an alternative model for how oral and public histories should be recorded and curated.
- Copyright year: 2014
According to Baba
A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community
This book employs new and critical approaches to oral history to write an insightful and deeply personal history of Sudbury’s Ukrainian community between 1901 and 1939.
- Copyright year: 2014
Negotiating a River
Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway
A revealing look at the planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project -- a megaproject that had a profound impact on North American history.
- Copyright year: 2014
Development Derailed
Calgary and the CPR, 1962-64
- Copyright year: 2013
Unlikely Diplomats
The Canadian Brigade in Germany, 1951-64
An original and critical account of the evolution of the Canadian Army and Canada’s relationship with NATO in the Cold War era.
- Copyright year: 2013
Feminist History in Canada
New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation
This new collection of original research demonstrates the continued relevance of the feminist history project in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2013
A National Force
The Evolution of Canada’s Army, 1950-2000
A groundbreaking reassessment of when, and why, Canada’s army broke away from its British imperial roots to become a truly national force.
- Copyright year: 2013
A Small Price to Pay
Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939-45
A long-overdue challenge to the commonplace assumption that the Second World War was a period of consumer austerity in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2013
Building Sanctuary
The Movement to Support Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, 1965-73
This book brings to light the activities and influence of the anti-draft groups that sprang up to build support for American Vietnam war resisters in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2013
Canada’s Global Villagers
CUSO in Development, 1961-86
An authoritative history of an organization that engaged thousands of young Canadians in the practice and politics of international development.
- Copyright year: 2013
Death or Deliverance
Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War
In this eye-opening account of military law in the Great War, courts martials emerge not as brutal, merciless dispensers of frontline justice but as courts capable of mercy.
- Copyright year: 2013
Consuming Modernity
Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom
Placing Canada in an international context, this book explores the intersections of gender, modernity, and consumerism from 1919 to 1945.
- Copyright year: 2013
Where Happiness Dwells
A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations
This innovative blend of oral history and anthropological commentary documents how the Dane-zaa survived and flourished for millennia in northern BC.
- Copyright year: 2013
Canoe Nation
Nature, Race, and the Making of a Canadian Icon
An exploration of the canoe and its role in Canadian culture, nature, and colonial past.
- Copyright year: 2013
Keeping Canada British
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan
This provocative book provides a new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan, arguing that it should not be portrayed merely as an irrational outburst of intolerance but as a slightly more extreme version of mainstream opinion that wanted to keep Canada British.
- Copyright year: 2013
Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914
A revealing look at the origins of modern wildlife conservation in Quebec.
- Copyright year: 2013
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39
- Copyright year: 2013