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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Bent out of ShapeShame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work |
Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she … | Karen Messing | 276 | 2021 | View |
Between Certain Death and a Possible FutureQueer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis |
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This … | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | 368 | 2021 | View |
Big Business and Hitler |
For big business in Germany and around the world, Hitler and his National Socialist party were a welcome political development. Business was facing the Great Depression of in the 1930s, and for … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 304 | 2017 | View |
Bigotry on BroadwayAn Anthology |
In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited a diverse group of informed and accomplished writers, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the … | Carla Blank; Ishmael Reed | 216 | 2021 | View |
Black CanadiansHistory, Experience, Social Conditions Second Edition |
Black Canadians provides an authoritative reference for teachers, students and the general public who seek to know more about the Black Diaspora in North America. Arguments made in this book may … | Joseph Mensah | 303 | 2010 | View |
Black Geographiesand the Politics of Place |
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their … | Katherine McKittrick | 272 | 2007 | View |
NEW! Black Loyalists in New BrunswickThe lives of eight African Americans in colonial New Brunswick 1783-1834 |
Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred African Americans. Like their … | Stephen Davidson | 146 | 2020 | View |
NEW! Bombs and Barbed WireStories of Acadian Airmen and Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 |
Little has been written about the Acadians who served in Canada’s armed forces during the Second World War. In fact, the prevailing notion suggested that Acadians refused to support the war … | Ronald Cormier | 204 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Bottoms UpA History of Alcohol in Newfoundland and Labrador |
In 1617, Lord Falkland’s colonists in Newfoundland were instructed to bring, among other things, 20 barrels of caske (ale), 90 bushels of malt, a malt mill, 4500 pounds of hops, 1 firkin of … | Sheilah Roberts Lukins | 272 | 2020 | View |
Burnley “Rocky” Jones (Autobiography)Revolutionary |
Born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, Burnley “Rocky” Jones is one of Canada’s most important figures of social justice. Often referred to as Canada’s Stokely Carmichael, Jones was tirelessly … | Burnely “Rocky” Jones; James W.St.G. Walker | 280 | 2016 | View |
Canada in the WorldSettler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination |
An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation, this book charts a unique path by locating Canada’s colonial foundations at … | Tyler A. Shipley | 552 | 2020 | View |
Canada Since 1960: A People’s HistoryA Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture |
When Winnipeg's Cy Gonick started the magazine Canadian Dimension in 1963 to provide a home for the thinking and analysis of mostly young leftists engaged in Canadian economic, social, … | Cy Gonick | 576 | 2016 | View |
Canada’s Bastions of EmpireHalifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918 |
This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. … | Bryan Elson | 280 | 2014 | View |
NEW! Canadarm and CollaborationHow Canada's Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds |
Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program … | Elizabeth Howell | 249 | 2020 | View |
Canadian Culture in a Globalized WorldThe impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life |
Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign … | Garry Neil | 256 | 2019 | View |
Canadian StudiesPast, Present, Praxis |
Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis provides an overview of the development and evolution of Canadian Studies as a field of research and teaching, from the landmark Symons Report in 1975 to … | Christl Verduyn; Jane Koustas | 345 | 2012 | View |