Canada’s Rights Revolution
Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82
In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists.
The Reluctant Land
Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation
Captain Alex MacLean
Jack London's Sea Wolf
Sealing wars and maritime history are brought into focus in this vivid account of the life of the Alex MacLean, the inspiration for Jack London's Sea-Wolf.
At the Far Reaches of Empire
The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
The most complete study of Bodega and his epoch yet written, At the Far Reaches of Empire is an absorbing narrative of eighteenth-century empire building.
Voices Raised in Protest
Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49
Uprooted
The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917
Some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of ten - were shipped from Britain to Canada in the 50 years following Confederation in 1867. How did this come about?
Healing Henan
Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947
Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, this book brings sixty years of missionary nursing out of the shadows by examining how Canadian nurses shaped health care in the province of Henan and how China, in turn, influenced the nature of missionary nursing.
Guarding the Gates
The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934
A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.
