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Land and the Liberal Project

Canada’s Violent Expansion

UBC Press

Land and the Liberal Project explores the “improving” ideas that informed the expansion of Canada from coast to coast, exposing the justifications for state violence and appropriation of Indigenous territory, thus challenging our assumptions about Canadian sovereignty.

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Building a Special Relationship

Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61

UBC Press

This book takes a compelling look at how bilateral diplomacy in an era wracked by the Cold War created a culture of cooperation between Canada and the United States that endures to the present day.

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Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity

UBC Press

What is Canada? This new look at “Canada” shows how the country’s prime ministers have consciously worked to shape national identity through their speeches and rhetoric.

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Triumph and Solidarity

BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression

Athabasca University Press
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Shifting Gears

Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

UBC Press

Shifting Gears tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from an emphasis on transformative activism to transactional partnerships.

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Transforming the Prairies

Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada

UBC Press

Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.

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The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out

Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community

UBC Press

The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out documents the tumultuous struggle of one coal-mining region to stave off economic ruin in the face of changing times and technologies.

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An Honourable and Impartial Tribunal

The Court Martial of Major General Henry Procter, Minutes of the Proceedings

Athabasca University Press
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The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213

Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric

Athabasca University Press
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Pentecostal Preacher Woman

The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard

UBC Press

Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician, musician. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores the complex life of Bernice Gerard, one of the most influential spiritual figures of twentieth-century British Columbia.

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