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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Métis Nation and Provisional Government in the North-West, 1869-71 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines the Metis nation in communities such as the Red River and Saskatchewan River in the late nineteenth-century Canadian colony, the Canada Party, Louis Riel, and the …	Bryan D. Palmer	12	2024	$1.20 Add
From The Multiple Lives of Ordinary Buildings From: The Ward Uncovered View Coach House Books		John Lorinc	6	2018	$0.60 Add
From NEW! The multipolar world From: Targeting Libya View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines Libya’s collapse into civil war and jihadist takeover while the US shifted its focus to containing a rising China and Russia, whose growing independence signaled a new …	Owen Schalk	4	2025	$0.40 Add
From The Murder of August Plaszek July 22, 1943 From: Hanged in Medicine Hat View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Greenfield describes how on the afternoon of July 22, 1943, German POW August Plaszek was hanged by fellow inmates at Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, after a prisoner …	Nathan Greenfield	11	2022	$1.10 Add
From The Mutilated City Belfast From: Walls View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter focuses on walls and divisions in the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland, looking at the history of Catholic and Protestant enclaves and tensions between these groups in the city. …	Marcello Di Cintio	49	2013	$4.90 Add
From The Mystery of the Hidden Cross From: The Ward Uncovered View Coach House Books		Holly Martelle	3	2018	$0.30 Add
The Myth of the Good War America in the Second World War James Lorimer and Company	Was the role of the United States in the Second World War an essentially idealistic one, a crusading struggle to conquer the dark forces of German fascism and Japanese militarism? Was it an …		328		View
From The Myth of the Modernate Rebel From: Washington's Long War on Syria View Baraka Books	When the Daraa riot broke out in mid-March, 2011, two armed Islamist groups, which would play a lead role in the war against the Syrian government, Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham, had already …	Stephen Gowans	26	2017	$2.60 Add
From The Mythologies of Canada’s "Good War" From: Canada in the World View Fernwood Publishing	The Second World War – The Spectre of Jewish Bolshevism – None Is Too Many – Crimes and Contradictions – At War’s End – Death from Above, Death from Below	Tyler A. Shipley	28	2020	$2.80 Add
From NEW! The Nationalists of 1968 and the Search for Canadian Independence From: 1968 in Canada View University of Ottawa Press	The year 1968 marked a decisive break in the history of English-Canadian nationalism. An older generation of nationalists, mostly located in rural Canada and concerned with the loosening of …	Stephen Azzi	24	2021	$2.40 Add
From NEW! The nationalization threat From: Targeting Libya View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, SNC-Lavalin’s corrupt ties to the Qadhafi family deepened just as Libya’s relations with Western oil companies and governments took a turn for the worse. In Libya …	Owen Schalk	9	2025	$0.90 Add
From The Nations of Australia From: From Subjects to Citizens View University of Ottawa Press	It is still the case that Indigenous people have neither a clear nor a just place within the ambit of the Australian polity. This fact, and the continuing disputes over the status of Indigenous …	Marcia Langton	19	2004	$1.90 Add
From The Navy, 1956–58 88 From: A Halifax Boyhood View Formac Publishing	Looks at his time in the Navy and the decision for the path his life would take afterwards. 1956-58	Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel	4	2014	$0.40 Add
From The Nazi Dictatorship Cui Bono? From: Big Business and Hitler View James Lorimer and Company	Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines how Hitler’s government impacted on the profitability of big business and the wealth of Germany’s elite from 1933-1936.	Jacques R. Pauwels	21	2017	$2.10 Add
From The Net of Fate From: Three Funerals for my Father View Tidewater Press	This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She muses on memories of her mother.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	4	2021	$0.40 Add
From Remembering Bell and Baldwin From: Fastest in the World View Formac Publishing	1957. Looks at the construction and launch of the Bras d’Or (Also known as R-103 and renamed Baddeck in 1962), an experimental prototype.	John Boileau	10	2004	$1.00 Add