A Dictionary of People, Places, and Ships has more than 1,400 biographies of people mentioned by General Jeffery Amherst in his journals or identified by Robert J. Andrews in his notes. Included are e
As commander in chief of His Majesty’s forces in North America, Jeffery Amherst helped the British acquire Canada in 1760. Like many military officers, Amherst kept personal journals of his activities
Sometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty ye
Why don’t more Metis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Metis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red Riv
Malaria kills nearly one million people each year. Hundreds of millions more are sickened by the disease, and many of them are permanently disabled. Billions are spent each year to understand it. Rese
The African Union’s Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance examines the initiatives of the Pan-African global governance institution the African Union (AU) as the organization and it
A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895?1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in N
The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emer
George Kenny is an Anishinaabe poet and playwright who learned traditional ways from his parents before being sent to residential school in 1958. When Kenny published his first book, 1982’s Indians Do
A monster stalks the earth?a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This monster is the market. The shadow it fears is cast by
Intimate Domain productively augments Rene Girard’s theory of mimetic violence by drawing on psychoanalytic theories of familial relationships and trauma to identify embodied pathways to healing, ther
First published in French in 1979, ?The Ambivalence of Scarcity” was a groundbreaking work on mimetic theory. Now expanded upon with new, specially written, and never-before-published conference texts
When the Second World War broke out, Winnipeg was Canada’s fourth-largest city, home to strong class and ethnic divisions, and marked by a vibrant tradition of political protest. Citizens demonstrated
Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chilean leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’etat. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to
This is the first major body of annotated texts in James Bay Cree, and a unique documentation of Swampy and Moose Cree (Western James Bay) usage of the 1950s and 1960s. Conversations and interviews wi
Serbians in Michigan examines the lives of Serbian immigrants from lowland areas of the Balkans and the distinct highland culture of Montenegro. The work provides cultural background to Serbian societ
A gripping historical study, The Murder of Joe White contextualizes decades of struggle as the Ojibwe community at Rice Lake resisted removal to the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation. While many studies
The Hmong people, originating from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos, are unique among American immigrants because of their extraordinary history of migration; loyalty to o
From one of the writers of the twentieth-century Native American Literary Renaissance comes a remarkable tale about how to acknowledge the past and take a chance on the future. Rooted in tribal-world
Most American adults never saw Colin Powell’s speech on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Instead, they learned about it from journalists?and to a large extent formed their opinions about war with
Creating Conservatism charts the vital role of canonical post?World War II (1945?1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States. Dedicated co
In these linked stories, Daniels’s characters wander Detroit, a world of concrete, where even a small strip of greenery becomes a hideout for mystery and mayhem. Even when they leave town, they take w
Fishing for a Solution provides a detailed, policy-based account of the development of Canada’s fisheries relations with the European Union and includes the experience of participants from inside the
Gordon W. Smith’s 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on ?The Historical and Legal Background of Canada’s Arctic Claims” remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter ?Sove
Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the ge
In Transforming Citizenship Raymond Rocco argues that traditional approaches and conceptions of citizenship in the United States are unable to account for the racialized marginalization of Latinos and
Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and firsthand ac
Africans are among the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the United States. Although they are racially and ethnically diverse, few studies have examined how these differences affect their patterns o
Highly respected as an Alberta artist and teacher, J. B. (Jack) Taylor (1917–1970) is best known for his representational, semi-abstract, and abstract paintings of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Taylor
Upon moving to Appalachian Ohio with their two small children, Richard Gilbert and his wife are thrilled to learn there still are places in America that haven’t been homogenized. But their excitement
A unique study of the impact of French operatic culture on the lives of all people in the French colonial plantation system?non-whites and whites, enslaved and freed. This in-depth study also examines
Cookbooks offer a unique and valuable way to examine American life. Far from being recipe compendiums alone, cookbooks can reveal worlds of information about the daily lives, social practices, class a
Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighboring countries, and the wellbeing of people living in and around the
Saskatchewan is the anchor and epitome of the ?prairie” provinces, even though half of the province is covered by boreal forest. The Canadian penchant for dividing this vast country into easily unders
This book explores the complex interplay between the economic realities of producing energy for a global market and the role of government in regulating and structuring the extraction, production, and
The product of long-concealed FBI surveillance documents, Dangerous Friendship chronicles a history of Martin Luther King Jr. that the government kept secret from the public for years. The book reveal
Anahareo was a gifted writer, environmentalist, and activist. She was also the wife of Grey Owl, a.k.a. Archie Belaney, the internationally acclaimed English-turned-Indian writer and speaker who dazzl
In this remarkable and remarkably accessible synthesis of ecology, landscape design, and social sciences, the authors present an approach to lakeshore living that addresses the need to create rich, su
Can civic engagement rescue the humanities from a prolonged identity crisis? David D. Cooper’s essays raise questions about the relevance and roles of humanities teaching and scholarship, the moral fo
In the 1930s, thousands of Finns emigrated from their communities in the United States and Canada to Soviet Karelia, a region in the Soviet Union where Finnish Communist emigres were building a societ
