Histoire
Clearing the Plains
Revealing how Canada’s first prime minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate ...
No Surrender
Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural ...
The Montreal Shtetl
Drawing on more than 60 interviews with survivors, hundreds of case files from Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, and other archival documents, this book presents a portrait of the daily struggles of Holocaust ...
1919
In May/June 1919, more than 30,000 workers walked off the job in Winnipeg, MB. One hundred years later, the Winnipeg General Strike remains one of the most significant events in Canadian history. This ...
Environmental Activism on the Ground
Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small-scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. ...
Stalin's Gulag at War
Stalin’s Gulag at War places the Gulag within the story of the regional wartime mobilization of Western Siberia during the Second World War. Wilson T. Bell explores a diverse array of issues, including ...
Reconsidering Confederation
July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada’s Confederation – the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encompassing ...
Les premiers pas de l'Acadie, 1604-1713
Enfin un ouvrage emballant qui met de côté les malheurs de l’Acadie pour mieux démontrer à quel point les pionnières et les pionniers du 17e siècle faisaient preuve de créativité, d’industrie ...
Subir la victoire
Cet ouvrage propose une plongée dans le formidable bouillonnement intellectuel et civique de la Russie à l’époque de la perestroïka et de la fin de la guerre froide, alors que les libéraux soviétiques ...
En rade
Au 19e siècle, les marins débarquent par milliers à Montréal, alors le premier port du Canada. Pourtant, ils n’ont laissé que peu de traces dans les livres d’histoire. Fruit d’une minutieuse ...