Labour at the Lakehead
Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35
This book explores the early years of leftism in Canada through the prism of ethnicity and a dynamic yet divided community in northern Ontario.
First Person Plural
Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship
Focusing on the 1990s, when debates over voice and representation were particularly explosive, McCall investigates a wide range of “told-to” narratives that have shaped the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Canada, and asks what is at stake in crafting a politics and ethics of collaboration.
Oral History on Trial
Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts
This compelling analysis of Aboriginal, legal, and anthropological concepts of fact and evidence argues for the inclusion of Aboriginal oral histories in Canadian courts, and pushes for a reconsideration of the Crown's approach to oral history.
The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah
A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific Northwest Coast
Drawing on a painstaking transcription of Clah’s diaries, Peggy Brock offers a riveting portrait of a Tsimshian man and his encounters with colonialism.
Corps Commanders
Five British and Canadian Generals at War, 1939-45
Corps Commanders explains how five very different Second World War British and Canadian generals fought their battles, and why they fought them in similar fashion.
Beyond Suffering
Recounting War in Modern China
This collection moves beyond the geopolitical sphere to examine the multiple fronts – personal, social, and institutional – on which wars in modern China have been fought, experienced, and remembered.
Wet Prairie
People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba
This in-depth exploration of surface water management in southern Manitoba reveals how coping with environmental realities has altered both residents’ relations with each other and their ideas about the role of the state.
Defence and Discovery
Canada’s Military Space Program, 1945-74
A revealing investigation into the origins, development, and impact of Canada’s space program from 1945 to 1974.
The Way of the Bachelor
Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba
This book documents the religious beliefs and cultural practices that helped sustain and lend meaning to Chinese bachelors in smaller towns and cities of Manitoba.
Xavier's Legacies
Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture
By exposing Catholicism’s long-term influence in Japan, this volume disrupts conventional assumptions about tradition, modernity, and Christianity in the East and the West.