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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces The contentious history of the Canadian federation James Lorimer and Company	This book provides a history of Canadian federalism and describes the ongoing push and pull over power between Ottawa and the provinces. Ed Whitcomb offers an analysis of how the strengths and …	Ed Whitcomb	400	2017	View
Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction Baraka Books	“… essential reading.” Edward S. Herman An accepted narrative holds that horrible Rwandan Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly a million Tutsis after a …	Robin Philpot	276	2013	View
Samuel Cunard Nova Scotia's Master of the North Atlantic Formac Publishing	An illustrated biography of a Canadian who sparked a world transportation revolution In North America, the name Cunard is synonymous with shipping. This book traces the entrepreneurial rise of …	John Boileau	112	2006	View
Slouching Towards Sirte NATO's War on Libya and Africa Baraka Books	NATO’s war in Libya was proclaimed as a humanitarian intervention—bombing in the name of “saving lives.” Attempts at diplomacy were stifled. Peace talks were subverted. …	Maximilian C. Forte	344	2012	View
Songs Upon the Rivers The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific Baraka Books	“A major undertaking … a valuable contribution,” Canada’s History Long before the Davy Crocketts, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade …	Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette	448	2016	View
South End Boy Growing up in Halifax in the tumultuous '30s and '40s Formac Publishing	In this memoir Jim Bennet introduces us to Halifax of the 1930s and ’40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs, chuffing freight trains and pine tar soap. He takes the reader along with …	Jim Bennet	143	2015	View
NEW! Spectres of Fascism Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives Between The Lines	Concerns over the rise of fascism have been preoccupied with the Trump presidency and the Brexit vote in the UK, yet, globally, we are witnessing a turn towards anti-democratic and illiberal …	Samir Gandesha	304	2020	View
Stampede Misogyny, White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism Fernwood Publishing	Kimberly A. Williams wants the annual Calgary Stampede to change its ways. An intrepid feminist scholar with a wry sense of humour, Williams deftly weaves theory, history, pop culture and …	Kimberley A. Williams	232	2021	View
Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America Baraka Books	“Women” and “architecture” were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, “it is hardly safe to assert” that a …	Carla Blank; Tania Martin	234	2014	View
Sweethearts The Builders, the Mob and the Men James Lorimer and Company	Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments. …	Catherine Wismer	272	2014	View
Take Back the Fight Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age Fernwood Publishing	Two decades of neoliberalism have destroyed a structured, pan-regional feminist movement in Canada. As a result, new generations of feminists have come to age without ever seeing the force that …	Nora Loreto	256	2020	View
NEW! Testimonio Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala Between The Lines	What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, …	Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell	268	2021	View
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives University of Ottawa Press	In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was …	Christopher Adam; Tibor Egervari	306	2010	View
NEW! The Attack on Nova Scotia’s Schools The story behind 25 years of tumultuous change Formac Publishing	Nova Scotia’s public schools and their students have faced dramatic conflict and drastic change over the past 25 years. While critics charge that schools are failing kids, teachers have …	Grant Frost	180	2020	View
The Beothuk Breakwater Books	A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. This title …	Ingeborg Marshall	88	2009	View
The Bitter Harvest of War New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917 Goose Lane Editions	In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada — as a nation — was born on its slopes. But the cost was tremendous: 10,000 Canadians …	Andrew Theobald	120	2008	View