Colonialism

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Institutions, Indigeneity, and “the Indian,” 1835–57 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter looks at the emergence of institutions of control in nineteenth century Canda to in relation to Indigenous populations such as reserves, penitentiaries and residential schools.	Bryan D. Palmer	8	2024	$0.80 Add
From Introduction From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	Sinclair states her intentions for the project How We Go Home to offer oral histories of living Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States and how her personal experiences have shaped her …	Sara Sinclair	9	2020	$0.90 Add
From Introduction From: Canada in the World View Fernwood Publishing	In this introduction, Shipley discusses the motivations behind this project and the need to better communicate real histories of Indigenous people in Canada.	Tyler A. Shipley	11	2020	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Searching for Serafim View Arsenal Pulp Press	Ruby Smith Díaz shares her experience searching for images of Black Canadians throughout history and why she chose to research the life of Serafim "Joe" Fortes.	Ruby Smith Diaz	6	2025	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter outlines how the structures of capitalism and colonialism together shaped the emergence of Canada as a nation in the twentieth century.	Bryan D. Palmer	35	2025	$3.50 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises View James Lorimer and Company	This introduction describes the big picture of how Canada’s economy developed over the period from 1960 onwards. Palmer describes how labour’s early postwar gains faded as corporate …	Bryan D. Palmer	12	2026	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Making of Canada View Sutherland House	In this introduction, Koabel challenges the familiar narrative of Canadian Confederation by spotlighting overlooked figures across the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.	Greg Koabel	4	2025	$0.40 Add
From Inventing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police From: Canada’s State Police View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, Marquis describes how the North-West Mounted Police became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, expanding federal powers of policing while building a heroic public image that often …	Greg Marquis	40	2024	$4.00 Add
From NEW! James Douglas From: Making of Canada View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Koabel traces James Douglas’s navigation of the Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858, when a wave of American prospectors threatened the Pacific Northwest colonies.	Greg Koabel	17	2025	$1.70 Add
From James Favel, Winnipeg, Peguis First Nation “You’re a stakeholder because you’ve got to walk these streets every day.” From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	James Favel, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is of the Peguis First Nation. He describes his childhood in Winnipeg and his reaching out to his father as teenager, and reconnecting with his culture. He …	Sara Sinclair	19	2020	$1.90 Add
From NEW! James Landrigan and Patrick Morris From: Making of Canada View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Koabel traces Newfoundland’s transformation from a seasonal cod fishery governed by English captains into a permanent colony demanding self-rule in the early nineteenth century.	Greg Koabel	15	2025	$1.50 Add
From Jasilyn Charger, Cheyenne River Sioux “My son’s buried by the river. . . . I vowed to him that he’s going to be safe, that no oil was going to touch him.” From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	Jasilyn Charger of the Cheyenne River Sioux, shares her story of her childhood with her family and moving in and out of foster homes and mental health facilities. She then became involved in the …	Sara Sinclair	22	2020	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Kondiaronk and the Great Peace of Montreal From: Making of Canada View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Koabel examines how the Great Peace of Montreal, held in the summer of 1701, reshaped diplomatic relations across North America.	Greg Koabel	16	2025	$1.60 Add
Legacy Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing ECW Press	Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other …	Suzanne Methot	370	2019	View
From Little Patches Known as Reserves From: Cheated View ECW Press	Chapter Six addresses the sale of reserve lands upon western settlers’ displacement of First Nations peoples.	Bill Waiser; Jennie Hansen	27	2023	$2.70 Add
From Lord Durham’s “Radical” Intervention (1839) and Reaction’s Revenge (1849) From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter looks at the policies of Lord Durham which created the Province of Canada under the Act of Union of 1840 and implemented a common commercial system and punitive measures particularly …	Bryan D. Palmer	7	2024	$0.70 Add