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Memory, Identity, and Diversity in BC

Memory, Identity, and Diversity in BC

From: British Columbia Politics and Government

Analysis of historical injustices against persons of Asian and Aboriginal descent in BC, leading to an assessment of the current situation. 15 $1.50 Add
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Men with Special Qualifications

Men with Special Qualifications

From: Cheated

Chapter Eight describes the marketing of the lands taken from First Nations communities to western buyers. ; 29 $2.90 Add
Merchant Princes

Merchant Princes

Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel

This book tells the story of an extraordinary family of merchants and entrepreneurs. It begins in 1810, when William Stairs opened a small general store on the Halifax waterfront. Over the next … 376 View
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Merle Foster's Studio 'A Spot of Enchantment'

Merle Foster’s Studio ‘A Spot of Enchantment’

From: The Ward

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MH2284

MH2284

From: Three Funerals for my Father

This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She continues to tell the story of her escape, starting with her arrival in Indonesia. 15 $1.50 Add
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Michigan Territory From the War of 1812 to Statehood in 1837

Michigan Territory From the War of 1812 to Statehood in 1837

From: Songs Upon the Rivers

This chapter focuses on the period following the end of the War of 1812, and the experiences of Canadien and Métis descendants as well as Indigenous communities in North America during this … ; ; 40 $4.00 Add
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Middle-Aged, Gifted and Black
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Middle-Aged, Gifted and Black

Structures of Feeling in the Black Atlantic

From: Thinking While Black

In this chapter the author connects Armond White’s film criticism in the New York Press and Paul Gilroy’s academic career at Goldsmiths College in London between the years of 1997 to … 23 $2.30 Add
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Migrant Justice and the Tar Sands Industry

Migrant Justice and the Tar Sands Industry

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

Chapter 7 is an interview with Harsha Walia by John Kahn Russell. ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Miinná Áhkku and Pirion
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Miinná Áhkku and Pirion

Community and Sovereighty: Section 3

From: Qummut Qukiria!

This chapter is an illustrated story written by Taqralik Partridge, afterstory told by Mai Britt Utsi, and illustrated by Nils Ailo Utsi. ; ; 8 $0.80 Add
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Mi'kmaq Social Values and Economy

Mi’kmaq Social Values and Economy

From: We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition

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Mi’kmaw Social Values and Economy

Mi’kmaw Social Values and Economy

From: We Were Not The Savages

Chapter 2 focuses on the early European descriptions of Mi’kmaq character and the early trade and commerce of the maritime region. 28 $2.80 Add
Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks

Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks

The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s

This is a gripping look at the underbelly of Toronto’s explosive postwar growth in the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when labour leaders, politicians, contractors and crime figures battled for … 384 View
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Militaria 1914

Militaria 1914

Aborted Plans

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

August 1914: All armies go to war brimming with confidence. The commanders proceed to implement the plans that are supposed to guarantee success, such as Plan XVII of the French and the famous … 14 $1.40 Add
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Militaria 1915

Militaria 1915

The Great Offensives

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

In 1915, the French and British launch a number of large-scale offensives on the western front, hoping to pierce the German lines and thus to win the war. But in trench warfare the defenders, … 12 $1.20 Add
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Militaria 1916

Militaria 1916

Material and Human Material

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

If men armed with rifles and bayonets cannot open a gap in defensive lines, perhaps it can be done by simply obliterating the enemy in his trenches by means of massive shelling by the artillery. … 16 $1.60 Add