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An Ocean of Wonders
If you center a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view while glimpses of continents encroach on the fringes,...
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Symptoms of an Unruly Age
Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity
Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare,...
ISBN: 9780295746135
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Taking to the Air
An Illustrated History of Flight
The possibilities of flight have long fascinated us. Each innovation captivated a broad public, from those who gathered to witness winged medieval visionaries jumping from towers, to those who tuned...
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Smell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans...
ISBN: 9780295746104
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Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly...
ISBN: 9780295746098
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Fire
A Brief History
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J....
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Outriders
Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled cowboys succeed. In the mythos of this quintessentially western sport, the hero is often a stoic white man...
ISBN: 9780295746777
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Reluctant Warriors
Canadian Conscripts and the Great War
During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were often considered slackers for not having...
ISBN: 9780774835985
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Resisting Rights
Canada and the International Bill of Rights, 1947-76
From 1948 to 1966, the United Nations worked to create a common legal standard for human rights protection around the globe. Resisting Rights analyzes the Canadian government’s changing...
ISBN: 9780774838191
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The Jewish Bible
A Material History
In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object—the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their hands—from its beginnings in the Ancient...
ISBN: 9780295746173
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Moments of Crisis
Religion and National Identity in Québec
In the past two decades, Québec has been racked by a series of controversies in which the religiosity of migrants and minorities has been represented as a threat to the province’s identity, once...
ISBN: 9780774861762
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Fighting with the Empire
Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867-1947
Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire. War forced Canadians to...
ISBN: 9780774860413
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Four Unruly Women
Stories of Incarceration and Resistance from Canada's Most Notorious Prison
Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary,...
ISBN: 9780774838887
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Assembling Unity
Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
Established narratives portray Indigenous unity as emerging solely in response to the political agenda of the settler state. But unity has long shaped the modern Indigenous political movement. With...
ISBN: 9780774837996
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Give and Take
The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy
A book about tax history that’s a real page-turner? Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero who deplored...
ISBN: 9780774836739
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Capturing Hill 70
Canada's Forgotten Battle of the First World War
In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, vital terrain just north of the French town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and in three harrowing days defeated twenty-one...
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The Empire on the Western Front
The British 62nd and Canadian 4th Divisions in Battle
When Great Britain and its dominions declared war on Germany in August 1914, they were faced with the formidable challenge of transforming masses of untrained citizen‑soldiers at home and abroad...
ISBN: 9780774860154
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Depok Slaves
The Dream of Cornelis Chastelein
Cornelis Chastelein was a successful 17th century Huguenot merchant in the Dutch East Indies. He was opposed to slavery and upon his death in 1714, he willed his estate at Depok in collective ownership,...
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Bootstraps Need Boots
One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada
For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada. A self‑described Red Tory warrior who disdained “boot strap” approaches to poverty,...
ISBN: 9780774890458
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Duty to Dissent
Henri Bourassa and the First World War
During the First World War, Henri Bourassa – fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec – took centre stage in the national debates on Canada’s participation in the...
ISBN: 9780774838825
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