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Transforming the Prairies
Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada
Price:
CA$99.00
ISBN: 9780774870399
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.
The Good Walk
Creating New Paths on Traditional Prairie Trails
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9780889779655
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Regina Press
A motley group's long trek across the prairies, witnessing the land, reflecting on the past, and creating new paths for the future Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and manifesto, The Good Walk recounts...
mmm... Manitoba
The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840414
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Mixing recipes, maps, archival records, biographies, and full-colour photographs with fascinating stories, mmm... Manitoba showcases the province’s diverse foodways and industries from on board the Manitoba Food History Truck.
Remembering Our Relations
Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park
Price:
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781773854113
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Wood Buffalo National Park is located in the heart of Dénes??uné homelands, where Dené people have lived from time immemorial. Central to the creation, expansion, and management of this park, Canada...
Gaman - Perseverance
Japanese Canadians' Journey to Justice
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781772015416
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Talonbooks
This revealing memoir by the former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians describes the long journey towards resolution for the historic injustice that deprived Japanese Canadians...
Great Plains Forts
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781496207715
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Great Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have aided and impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains from precontact times to the present.
A Stunning Backdrop
Alberta in the Movies, 1917-1960
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CA$119.99
ISBN: 9781773853925
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Alberta?s magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval...
A Legacy of Exploitation
Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774866361
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: UBC Press
A Legacy of Exploitation recasts the Hudson’s Bay Company’s experiment at Red River as a reaction to Indigenous peoples’ autonomy, challenging collective historical fantasies of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers.
A Stunning Backdrop
Alberta in the Movies, 1917-1960
Price:
CA$54.99
ISBN: 9781773853932
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Alberta?s magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval...
For a Better World
The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt
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CA$31.95
ISBN: 9780887552991
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Canada’s most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined conversations around class, politics, region, ethnicity, and gender. For a Better World interrogates types of commemoration, current legacies of the Strike, and its ongoing influence.
A Legacy of Exploitation
Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821
Price:
CA$89.95
ISBN: 9780774866354
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: UBC Press
A Legacy of Exploitation recasts the Hudson’s Bay Company’s experiment at Red River as a reaction to Indigenous peoples’ autonomy, challenging collective historical fantasies of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers.
Scratching River
Price:
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781771125444
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Finding Home. Scratching River is the author's older brother's story. This book is about the search for home for her brother, who has the dual diagnoses of autism and schizophrenia and the abuse he suffered in one of the homes he lived in. This story is linked to historical and contemporary Métis home and mobility.
Uplift
Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774864527
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: UBC Press
The first major historical study of the Banff School of Fine Arts, Uplift reveals the foundational role of the school in shaping what is today the globally renowned Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics
Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond
Price:
CA$37.99
ISBN: 9781771992657
Pub Date: July 2020
Imprint: Athabasca University Press
From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. This volume extends historical analysis into considerations of contemporary policy and human rights issues through a discussion of disability studies as well as compensation claims for victims of sterilization.
A Town Called Asbestos
Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774828420
Pub Date: July 2016
Imprint: UBC Press
In A Town Called Asbestos, a mining town’s proud and painful history is unearthed to reveal the challenges a small resource community faced in a globalized world.
First Nations, Museums, Narrations
Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774827263
Pub Date: January 2015
Imprint: UBC Press
The story of the Franklin Motor Expedition that collected First Nations artifacts on the Prairies in 1929 as well as a larger study of the relationships between museums and the indigenous peoples whose heritage items they house.
Transforming the Prairies
Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada
CA$99.00
ISBN: 9780774870399
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.
The Good Walk
Creating New Paths on Traditional Prairie Trails
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9780889779655
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Regina Press
mmm... Manitoba
The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840414
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Mixing recipes, maps, archival records, biographies, and full-colour photographs with fascinating stories, mmm... Manitoba showcases the province’s diverse foodways and industries from on board the Manitoba Food History Truck.
Remembering Our Relations
Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park
CA$34.99
ISBN: 9781773854113
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Gaman - Perseverance
Japanese Canadians' Journey to Justice
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781772015416
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Talonbooks
Great Plains Forts
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781496207715
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
A Stunning Backdrop
Alberta in the Movies, 1917-1960
CA$119.99
ISBN: 9781773853925
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
A Legacy of Exploitation
Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774866361
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: UBC Press
A Legacy of Exploitation recasts the Hudson’s Bay Company’s experiment at Red River as a reaction to Indigenous peoples’ autonomy, challenging collective historical fantasies of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers.
A Stunning Backdrop
Alberta in the Movies, 1917-1960
CA$54.99
ISBN: 9781773853932
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
For a Better World
The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt
CA$31.95
ISBN: 9780887552991
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Canada’s most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined conversations around class, politics, region, ethnicity, and gender. For a Better World interrogates types of commemoration, current legacies of the Strike, and its ongoing influence.
A Legacy of Exploitation
Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821
CA$89.95
ISBN: 9780774866354
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: UBC Press
A Legacy of Exploitation recasts the Hudson’s Bay Company’s experiment at Red River as a reaction to Indigenous peoples’ autonomy, challenging collective historical fantasies of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers.
Scratching River
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781771125444
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Uplift
Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774864527
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: UBC Press
Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics
Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond
CA$37.99
ISBN: 9781771992657
Pub Date: July 2020
Imprint: Athabasca University Press
From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. This volume extends historical analysis into considerations of contemporary policy and human rights issues through a discussion of disability studies as well as compensation claims for victims of sterilization.
A Town Called Asbestos
Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774828420
Pub Date: July 2016
Imprint: UBC Press
First Nations, Museums, Narrations
Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774827263
Pub Date: January 2015
Imprint: UBC Press