Longitude and Empire
How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World
This fascinating account offers a new understanding of Captain Cook’s voyages and how they affected the European world view.
Canada and the End of Empire
This collection deals with a neglected subject in post-Confederation Canadian history – the implications to Canada and Canadians of British decolonization and the end of empire.
Frigates and Foremasts
The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters 1745-1815
A meticulously researched and groundbreaking study of the activities and motivations of the British Navy on North America’s eastern seabord.
Parties Long Estranged
Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century
A comparative collection of essays that examine different aspects of Canadian-Australian relations throughout the twentieth century.
Making Native Space
Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
It presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC – the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.
Pacific Empires
Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams
A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J.C. Beaglehole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955. In the forty-odd years since then ...
The Burden of History
Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community
Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30
Contains a wealth of information about social and administrative life at Fort Langley.
Trading Beyond the Mountains
The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843
This books examines the Hudson's Bay company exploration efforts beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean from 1793 to 1843 – which led to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America.
Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-67
Ged Martin offers a sceptical review of claims that Confederation answered all the problems facing the provinces, and examines in detail British perceptions of Canada and ideas about its future.
Contact and Conflict
Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890 (2nd edition)
Originally published in 1977, Contact and Conflict has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans – fur traders as well as settlers.