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  • The Imperial Gridiron

    Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

    by Matthew Bentley, John D. Bloom ...
    Finalist for the 2023 NASSH Anthologies Book AwardThe Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918. Students often arrived at Carlisle already engrained with Indigenous ideals of masculinity. On many occasions these ideals would come into conflict with the models of manhood created by the school’s original ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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  • Colour-Coded

    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    by Constance Backhouse ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915

    Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915

    by Sarah Carter ...
    Series series The West Unbound
    Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the “one man, one woman”model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book revises what we know about marriage and the gendered politics of late 19th century reform, shifts our understanding of Aboriginal history during that ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Female Husbands

    A Trans History

    by Jen Manion ...
    Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as ... Read more

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  • The Manly Art

    Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America

    by Elliott J. Gorn ...
    "It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Liberty and Sexuality

    The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade

    by David J. Garrow ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author David J. Garrow's stirring and essential history of the politics of abortion and America's battle for the right to chooseIn 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and more than forty years later the issue continues to spark controversy and divisiveness. But behind this historic legal case lie the battles women fought ... Read more

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  • Mississauga Portraits

    Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada

    by Donald B. Smith ...
    The word “Mississauga” is the name British Canadian settlers used for the Ojibwe on the north of Lake Ontario – now the most urbanized region in what is now Canada. The Ojibwe of this area in the early and mid-nineteenth century lived through a time of considerable threat to the survival of the First Nations, as they lost much of their autonomy, and almost all of their traditional territory.Donald ... Read more

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  • Seen but Not Seen

    Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today

    by Donald B. Smith ...
    Throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, the majority of Canadians argued that European "civilization" must replace Indigenous culture. The ultimate objective was assimilation into the dominant society.Seen but Not Seen explores the history of Indigenous marginalization and why non-Indigenous Canadians failed to recognize Indigenous societies and cultures as worthy of respect. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada

    A Researcher's Guide

    by Janice Nickerson ...
    Series Book 5 - Genealogist's Reference Shelf
    Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada provides genealogists and social historians with context and tools to understand the criminal justice system and locate sources on criminal activity and its consequences for the Upper Canada period (17911841) of Ontarios history.Illustrative examples further aid researchers in this era of the provinces past, which is notoriously difficult to investigate due to ... Read more

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  • On the Edge of Empire

    Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871

    by Adele Perry ...
    "On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history. Utilising feminist and post-colonial filters, Perry designs a case study of British Columbia. She draws on current work which aims to close ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • In Reckless Hands

    Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics

    by Victoria F. Nourse ...
    The disturbing, forgotten history of America’s experiment with eugenics.In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilization of “habitual criminals” and the “feebleminded.” But in 1936, inmates at Oklahoma’s McAlester prison ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Strangers in Blood

    Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country

    by Jennifer S. H. Brown ...
    The North American fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a vividly complex and changing social world. Strangers in Blood fills a major gap in fur trade literature by systematically examining the traders as a group -- their backgrounds, social patterns, domestic lives and families, and the problems of their offspring. ... Read more

    $29.69 USD