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From  NEW! Capitalism and Colonialism Unchecked: After the 2025 Election |
In this chapter, Palmer outlines the key policies put in place by the Carney Liberals in 2025-26, including the turn away from labour, Indigenous communities and their rights, and environmental … | Bryan D. Palmer | 25 | 2026 | $2.50 Add |
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NEW! Capitalism, Colonialism, and CrisesThe Remaking of Modern Canada 1960–2025: A New History for the Twenty-First Century Volume Three |
In this third volume, Bryan Palmer continues his sweeping new history of Canada, interweaving the latest research in labour, political, economic and social history. This book covers the profound … | 450 | View | ||
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From  NEW! Chapter 1Deep Roots From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses the earliest examples of mining in Canada. These include examples of metalwork and extraction practiced by pre-columbian indigenous communities as well as the first … | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: Capitalist Crisis and Expansion, 1890-1914 |
This chapter recounts how the Depression of the 1890s was followed in the first decades of the twentieth century by enormous growth in mining, railroads and industry. | Bryan D. Palmer | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: Radical Indigenous Economic Exclusion |
This chapter explores how the process of “othering”, inherent in the policies of the Indian Act, has reinforced systemic inequality and exclusion of Indigenous peoples in Canada. | Carol Anne Hilton | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 11: Canadian Capital and the Global South, 1900-30 |
This chapter recounts how from the 1890s–1920s, Canadian capital went abroad and sugar, banking, and railway ventures across Cuba and the West Indies connected Canadian business internationally. | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 12: Indigenous Waged Work and First Nations Organizing, 1890-1930 |
This chapter shows how in the early decades of the twentieth century Indigenous Peoples, with diminished roles in traditional work, endured economic hardship and were excluded from steady wage jobs. | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 13: Residential Schooling and the Suppression of "the Indian," 1890-1930 |
This chapter explains how Residential schools assimilated Indigenous children by separating them from their families, subjecting them to coercion and abuse and erasing their culture. | Bryan D. Palmer | 17 | 2025 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 14: Class Conflict and SocialistsThe Era of World War and Revolution |
The chapter discusses how early-twentieth-century labour militancy —from the rise of the AFL to the Winnipeg General Strike — took place alongside Indigenous resistance but ultimately … | Bryan D. Palmer | 19 | 2025 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 2: Deconstructing Indian Act Economics |
This chapter explores how the Indian Act has historically restricted Indigenous economic development, defines the concept of “Indian Act economics”, and outlines its lasting negative … | Carol Anne Hilton | 22 | 2025 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 21: Crisis, Politics, Colonized PeoplesQuebec in the 1930s |
This chapter relates the double colonization of Québec in the 1930s, as francophone workers were subjected to the repressive policies of the Anglo economic and political order while First … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 22: Crisis, Politics, Colonized PeoplesFirst Nations and Métis in the 1930s |
This chapter examines how during the 1930s Indigenous Peoples suffered enormous poverty, disease and tuberculosis, coercive laws and intensified efforts at assimilation through institutions such … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 24: The Welfare State’s 1940s Origins |
This chapter details how the hardship of the Depression led to increased demands for a welfare state and how Mackenzie King’s Liberals retreated from implementing such a program. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 28: "The Mountain Brings Forth a Mouse"The Indian Act and Colonialism's Continuities, 1944-60 |
This chapter details how at the end of WWII, Canada celebrated Indigenous war heroes like Tommy Prince and passed limited reforms through the 1951 Indian Act, yet at the same time denied the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 29: Prisons and Residential SchoolsColonial Coercions, 1940-70 |
This chapter recounts how in the postwar years, particularly after 1960, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment climbed rapidly as policing, courts and prisons replaced schools and reserves as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 3: Indians, Ethics, and Economic Value |
This chapter highlights the Indian Act’s discriminatory policies by examining, and applying an ethical lens to, the language used throughout the Act. | Carol Anne Hilton | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
