Bryan D. Palmer
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From  NEW! Class War Waged from Below, 1960–75 |
In this chapter, Palmer describes how younger workers in the 1960s-70s challenged union hierarchies through direct job action and spontaneous strikes. He details how Canadian postal employees … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
 Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890A New History for the Twenty-First Century |
Colonialism and Capitalism: A New History of Canada offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history … | Bryan D. Palmer | 450 | 2024 | View |
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From Colonialism and Coercive Assimilation/Cultural Genocide: Residential Schools as the Pedagogy of Nineteenth-Century OppressionFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses the evolution of the institutional framework of the Canadian state, particularly education, together with the press and the church in shaping bourgeois cultural norms. In … | Bryan D. Palmer | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
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From Colonialism Extended in the Immediate Post-Confederation YearsFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter examines legislation aimed at controlling Indigenous populations in Canada, such as the Indian Act of 1876, the Department of Indian Affairs, under the leadership of Duncan Cameron … | Bryan D. Palmer | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From Colonizing Colonists and the Indigenous Commons: The Royal Proclamation, 1763From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter outlines the British assumption of power after defeating France in North America and the Royal Proclamation of 1763, and the Treaty of Niagara and reviews British relations with the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From Companies and Competition: Selkirk, the Saulteaux, and the Re-establishment of Monopoly in the 1820sFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses the flourishing of the Hudson Bay Company as it triumphed over its competition and discusses westward expansion, the Selkirk settlement and the Saulteaux. | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Crises and Canada Remade, 2000–25: The Challenge of the Present |
In this short overview chapter focusing on the period of 2000-2025, Palmer discusses the dominant market-oriented neoliberal policies of the period. | Bryan D. Palmer | 4 | 2026 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! Crisis and Regime Change in Canada, 2025 |
In this chapter, Palmer describes US president Donald Trump’s dramatic impact on Canadian politics and how this led to the surprise elevation and then 2025 electoral success of Mark Carney … | Bryan D. Palmer | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Crisis Capitalism and the Political Economy of Instability: Canada’s Downward Slide, 2000–25 |
An overview of the Canadian economy’s development in the period 2000-2025. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2026 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Crisis Capitalism in 2025: A Balance Sheet |
In this concluding chapter of his three-volume history, Palmer concludes that recurring financial crises are a signature feature of postwar capitalism. Capitalism has yielded deep and growing … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2026 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Crisis Capitalism on Steroids: Dimensions of Trumpism, 2024–25 |
In this chapter, Palmer discusses US president Donald Trump’s second term, the major shift in US economic and foreign policy that followed, and the multiple impacts felt by Canada resulting … | Bryan D. Palmer | 23 | 2026 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! Deindustrialization in Hard Times: Dismantling Canadian Workplaces, 2000–25 |
In this chapter, Palmer describes the steady deindustrialization of the Canadian economy with many specific examples in the 2000-2025 period. | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From Diversity and the DishFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter outlines the many variations within Indigenous societies affected by factors such as geographic location, war and access to resources and, trade and the differences in land use, … | Bryan D. Palmer | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Elijah Harper, Distinct Societies, and the Oka Standoff, 1990 |
In this chapter, Palmer examines how Indigenous people were excluded from the Meech Lake Accord amongst federal and provincial governments to amend the Canadian constitution, and how this sparked … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
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From “Enclosure,” Land Policy, Social Differentiation, and Early Class Formation, 1795-1850From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses land enclosure in Canada I the first part of the nineteenth century as settlement and development continued in relation to Indigenous populations and early class formation. | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2024 | $1.60 Add |
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From Excesses of Exploitation: Indigenous Resentment and Resistance on the Changing Fur Trade Frontier, 1820-70From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses the expansion of the fur trade in Canada in the nineteenth century to British Columbia and the Pacific coast under the Hudson Bay’s Company James Douglas, and … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
