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Orwell in Cuba

By (author) Frédérick Lavoie
Translated by Donald Winkler
Categories: Human rights, civil rights

Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro’s Twilight is a personal account of today’s Cuba at a pivotal point in its history, with the Castro brothers passing power on to a new generation. ...

Partisan Odysseys

By (author) Nelson Wiseman
Categories: History of the Americas

In Partisan Odysseys, Nelson Wiseman sets out to survey the history of Canada’s political parties. Uncovering distinctive motifs and events in Canadian party politics from pre-Confederation to the present, ...

Secret History

By (author) Simon Ball
Categories: History

A provocative, rigorously researched study that questions what we think we know about British intelligence. Shining an intense light on the history of Britain’s intelligence organizations, Secret History ...

Canada's Legal Pasts

Canada’s Legal Pasts explores new topics in Canada’s fascinating legal history and presents practical approaches to historical scholarship on the workings of law and legality. Drawing on real-world ...

Enemy Alien

This graphic history tells the story of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s ...

Canada on the United Nations Security Council

By (author) Adam Chapnick
Categories: International relations

While the Canadian commitment to the United Nations itself has always been strong, Ottawa’s attitude towards the Security Council, and to service upon it, has been much less consistent. This book tells ...

The First Century of the International Joint Commission

The relationship between Canada and the United States is defined by our shared waterways. This book brings together a wide-ranging field of experts in a definitive history of the International Joint Commission—one ...

Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens

This book explores how Germans have experienced Canada and how Canada has experienced Germans over the course of four centuries. It is the first comprehensive inquiry into the immigration, integration, ...

Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid

During the last decade of Franco’s repressive rule, the Spanish outlook on sex, drugs, and fashion shifted dramatically, creating a favourable cultural environment for the return of democracy. The book ...

Arrows in a Quiver

By (author) James Frideres
Categories: History of the Americas

In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous–settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity and how ...