2025
Showing 17–32 of 164 results
| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 NEW! Capitalism and ColonialismThe Making of Modern Canada, 1890-1960 |
This second volume of Bryan Palmer’s history of Canada covers 1890 to 1960, in which Palmer examines the continuing role of capitalism and colonialism in structuring Canadian society, from … | Bryan D. Palmer | 434 | 2025 | View |
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From  NEW! Cautious OilFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes events of Day Six of Halifx’ 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on offshore oil prospects for Nova Scotia and transportation issues. … | Robert Ashe | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Chaotic Unregulated Tokyo: The Quintessentially Messy City?From: Messy Cities |
Andre Sorensen argues that Tokyo is often praised by tourists as the quintessential messy city with no zoning laws, while Japan in fact operates strict zoning systems that are completely … | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 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: 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 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 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 |
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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 15: Women’s Work and Capitalism’s Changing Employment Opportunities, 1910-29 |
This chapter outlines how women’s waged work expanded in the early decades of the twentieth century with employment in offices, banking, and retail. | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 16: The Distinct Society of Quebec, 1900-30 |
This chapter examines Québec’s Distinct Society which emerged in response to foreign economic and cultural control. Resistance emerged in the figure of Henri Bourassa and his … | Bryan D. Palmer | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 17: On the Eve of the Great DepressionWarning Signs in the 1920s |
This chapter details how the speculation and expansion of the 1920s gave way to overproduction, and reliance on exports, as increasing debt made the economy acutely vulnerable to the 1929 crash … | Bryan D. Palmer | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 18: Economic CollapseThe Great Depression of the 1930s |
This chapter recounts how successive downturns of the economy—from the 1913–15 recession to the 1929 crash—led to mass unemployment in Toronto and Montréal. | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 19: Outcasts and Dissidents in the Early 1930s |
This chapter discusses the examines the 1930s hobo jungles emerged due to the unemployment crisis and militant groups such as the Communist Worker’s Unity League (WUL) and the 1935 … | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
