Colonialism
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From  NEW! A Fateful Transition, 1870-90Big Industries, Big Banks From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses the rise of big Industry and Banking in Canada in the late nineteenth century. | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From  A New Beginning, and the AfterlifeFrom: Fear of a Black Nation |
This chapter provides a history of the resurgence of Black political activism in Montreal during the 1960s, focusing on the Congress of Black Writers and the Sir George Williams protest. The … | David Austin | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Adam Barker |
This chapter details the personal experience of White settler man, the child of a police officer, who became an academic specializing in settler colonial studies. | Adam Barker; Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
 NEW! Advocating for Palestine in CanadaHistories, Movements, Action |
Why is it so difficult to advocate for Palestine in Canada and what can we learn from the movement’s successes? This account of Palestine solidarity activism in Canada grapples with these … | 241 | View | ||
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From AfterwordFrom: Fear of a Black Nation |
Afterword | David Austin | 53 | 2023 | $5.30 Add |
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From NEW! Alienating Agreements; or Treaties as Thievery — Early Capitalism at Work in the 1870s and 1880sFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at John A. MacDonald’s National Policy in the 1870s ‘ and 1880s’ post-Confederation Canada in the form of railroads, tariffs and immigration, as well as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! British North America, the American Revolution, and LandFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter takes a look at British rule in North America in the late eighteenth century, Mi’kmaq treaty negotiations, the impact of the westward movement of the Fur Trade on Indigenous … | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Campus Palestine Activism in Ottawa from the 1970s to the 2010sPart III: Close-Ups — Media, Non-Profits, Campuses |
In Chapter 9, Hassan Husseini examines the history of Palestinian Activism on University campuses in Ottawa from the 1970s to the 2010s. Husseini focuses on the work of Palestine solidarity … | Hassan Husseini | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
 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 the heart of … | 552 | View | ||
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From  NEW! Canada Is a Bad CompanyPolice as Colonial Mercenaries for State and Capital |
In Canada Is a Bad Company author Shiri Pasternak recontextualizes the history of Canada, as the modern state was built to colonize, and this shaped the liberal capitalist institutions of this … | Shiri Pasternak | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Canadian Media and Pro-Israel Bias: An Insider’s PerspectivePart III: Close-Ups — Media, Non-Profits, Campuses |
In Chapter 7, Davide Mastracci explores the pro-Israel bias in Canadian media, detailing his own experiences with writing on Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. The chapter discusses … | Davide Mastracci | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Capital CravingsColonialism's Sixteenth-Century Beginnings Planted From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at the beginnings of capitalism and colonialism in Canada, and the effects of these developments on its Indigenous inhabitants. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: QuerenciaFrom: Searching for Serafim |
This chapter recounts the early life and background of Serafim Fortes. Included is an image of a handwritten note signed by Serafim. | Ruby Smith Diaz | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 10: The Inuit Confront Capitalism and Colonialism in the 1920s |
This chapter looks at how Inuit life was transformed by the fur trade, the church, state policing, and resource exploitation. | Bryan D. Palmer | 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 |
