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Bittersweet Passage
Maryka Omatsu
$19.95 CDN
$14.95 US
paper 0-921284-58-6
1992
Booze: A Distilled History
Craig Heron
$29.95 CDN
$24.95 US
paper 1-896357-83-0
2003
Compass Points: Navigating the Twentieth Century
Robert Chodos, ed.
$29.95 CDN
paper 1-896357-32-6
1999
Compass Points is a radical new history of the twentieth century. Each section, organized by decade, grapples with crucial developments in politics, economics, society and culture--in Canada and abroad. Featuring 107 original essays, Compass Points is an ideal guide for both students and the general reader. A timely resource for those looking to get a fix on the past and find their bearings for the future.
Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today
D.L. Raby
$29.95 CDN (this edition available in Canada only)
paper 1-897071-20-5
2006
Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrants in Cold War Canada
Franca Iacovetta
$34.95 CDN
paper 1-897071-11-6
2006
Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada
Joan Sangster
$24.95 CDN
paper 1-896357-58-X
2002
Industrial Cathedrals of the North
Text: Charlie Angus.
Photography: Louie Palu
French translation by Marguerite Andersen
$24.95 CDN
paper 1-896357-18-0
1999
Headframes dominate the landscape of mining communities in Northeastern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec. Distinctive structures built to house the apparatus at the head of the mine shaft, headframes tower above their surroundings, reminding every resident that without the mine, there would be no reason for their settlement to exist. For the past several years, photographer Louie Palu and writer Charlie Angus have been documenting historic mining sites in the north. Many of these have since been erased from the landscape.
Co-produced with Prise de parole
Mirrors of Stone: Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier
Charlie Angus, photos by Louie Palu
$24.95 CDN
$19.95 US
paper 1-896357-49-0
2001
The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney
Michael Dawson
$24.95 CDN
paper 1-896357-16-4
1998
Historian Michael Dawson digs deep into the written and pictorial record to reveal how the RCMP, since its inception, has constructed and zealously guarded its public image. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Dawson documents how consultants and entrepreneurs deliberately transformed and modernized the traditional symbolism of the Mountie. His trenchant analysis extends to the ironies of the recent licensing of the hallowed Mountie image to the ultimate dream-merchants--Disney.
"A fascinating account of the Mountie's history as national symbol."
-- Geoff Pevere, Canadian Dimension
The No-Nonsense Guide to World History, New Edition
Chris Brazier
$16.00 CDN (this edition available in Canada only)
paper 1-897071-16-7
2006
Not Paved with Gold: Italian-Canadian Immigrants in the 1970s
Vincenzo Pietropaolo
$39.95 CDN
paper 1-897071-08-6
Quebec and the American Dream
Robert Chodos & Eric Hamovitch
$19.95 CDN
paper 0-921284-39-X
1991
Chodos and Hamovitch weave a blend of anecdote, quotation, and scholarship to provide an incisive historical account of the interaction between French Canada and the political economy of the United States.
Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society
Sherene Razack, ed.
$29.95 CDN
$24.95 US
paper 1-896357-58-X
2002
Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada's Left History
Ian McKay
$19.95 CDN
$14.95 US
paper 1-896357-97-0
2005
The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls
Karen Dubinsky
$29.95 CDN. Available from Rutgers University Press in the U.S.
paper 1-896357-23-7
1999
A lively and wide-ranging work on the history of the North American honeymoon, and, of necessity, the tourist industry at Niagara Falls. Dubinsky charts the growth of Niagara Falls as a tourist destination from the 1850s to the 1960s and explains how it acquired its reputation as the "Honeymoon Capital of the World." Ultimately, the author asks: Of all the ways to promote a waterfall, why honeymoons?
Winner of the 2000 Albert B. Corey prize from the Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association for the best book in Canadian-American history.
An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines
Michael Riordon
$26.95 CDN
$22.95 US
paper 1-896357-93-8
2004
We Lived a Life and Then Some: The Life, Death, and Life of a Mining Town
Charlie Angus and Brit Griffin.
Illustrations by Sally Lawrence and Rob Moir
$19.95 CDN
paper 1-896357-06-7
1996
Based on in-depth oral interviews with local residents, and rich archival sources, We Lived A Life and Then Some relates the common person's struggle to overcome harsh working conditions and government neglect. The unique culture of the hardrock mining town of Cobalt is exposed through the eyes of retired miners, young welfare mothers, and grade-school children. Angus and Griffin reveal why, in spite of great adversity, Cobalt remains a distinctive and cohesive working-class community.
"A fast-moving, highly readable tale."
--Mick Lowe, Northern Life
Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies
Gary Kinsman, Dieter K. Buse, and Mercedes Steedman, eds.
$29.95 CDN
$24.95 US
paper 1-896357-25-3
2000
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Beyond the Promised Land
Development and Disorder
Recovering the Sacred
Watching China Change
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