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  • Flax Americana

    A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent

    de Joshua MacFadyen ...
    Series Libro 10 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint - critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded expanded paint markets. Flax Americana re-examines the changing relationships between farmers, urban ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Time and a Place

    An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island

    de Edward MacDonald, Joshua MacFadyen, Irené Novaczek ...
    Series Libro 5 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem. The pastoral landscapes, red sandstone cliffs, and small fishing villages of Canada’s “garden province” are appealing because they appear timeless, but they are as culturally constructed as they are shaped by the ebb and flow of the ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • Seven Fallen Feathers

    Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

    de Tanya Talaga ...
    Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political WritingWinner, 2017 RBC Taylor PrizeWinner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/AdultWinner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her workFinalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for NonfictionThe groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    de James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • A Wodehouse Miscellany: Articles & Stories

    de P.G. Wodehouse ...
    P.G. Wodehouse was a British writer best known for his humorous fiction. Wodehouse’s long career produced many classics with his most famous works centering around Jeeves, the genius valet of Bertie Wooster. This edition of A Wodehouse Miscellany: Articles & Stories includes a table of contents. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Islandman

    Traducido por Robin Flower ...
    de Tomás O'Crohan ...
    Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world. His book is a valuable description of a new vanished way of life; his sole purpose in writing it was in his own ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Towards a Prairie Atonement

    de Trevor Herriot, Norman Fleury ...
    Series series The Regina Collection
    In the wake of colonization, in a landscape of loss and dispossession, can we rediscover ways to share the land with other creatures and one another?When the government recently tried to abandon its responsibility to protect what little remains of the natural prairie, Trevor Herriot pushed back, only to discover an injustice haunting the lands he was trying to defend. In 1938, when the Métis of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • How to Be Irish

    Uncovering the Curiosities of Irish Behaviour

    de David Slattery ...
    From the quintessential Irish Mammy to love for all things GAA, the Irish have a particularities – and peculiarities – that make us different from our neighbours. Social anthropologist David Slattery takes us through the rules of being Irish with deadpan humour, from how to approach an Irish wedding or funeral to the Irish attitude to health, business, politics, death, Christmas and being cool. ... Leer más

    $10.00 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks

    The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention

    de Paul Toohey ...
    Series Libro 30 - Quarterly Essay
    When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks the rhetoric of emergency and tracks progress. One year on, have children been saved? Will Labor continue with the intervention? What are the reasons for the social crisis - the neglect and the ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Deep Time Dreaming

    Uncovering Ancient Australia

    de Billy Griffiths ...
    With a historian's inquiring mind, Billy Griffiths excavates two absorbing twentieth century histories: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity and the uncovering of traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archeologists.Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. In this original, important book, Griffiths investigates a twin revolution- the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The War of the Worlds

    de Noel Pearson ...
    Series Libro 3 - Short Blacks
    'How many Australians born in the 137 years since Truganini's death learnt her legend and scarcely thought deeper about the enormity of the loss she represented, and the history that led to it? Her spirit casts a long shadow over Australian history, but we have nearly all of us found a way to avert our eyes from its meaning.'In The War of the Worlds, Noel Pearson considers the shadow over ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Surviving Canada

    Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal

    Edición de Kiera L. Ladner, Myra J. Tait ...
    Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal (ARP Books) is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples’ complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how—even 150 years after Confederation—the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues. Through essays, art, and literature, Surviving ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD