The 100 Best Canadian History Books
The 100 Best Canadian History Books is a reading list covering the history of the country from European settlement until the present day. The list begins with a selection of general histories and then follows an approximately chronological order.
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1. A Concise History of Canada
Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many years of experience as a scholar, writer and teacher ... More »
2. The Penguin History of Canada
Canada's history, eminent historian Robert Bothwell argues, is more than simply regional or national. In some respects, Canada makes most sense when viewed from the outside in, and in The Penguin History of Canada we are invited to do just that. The world has always seen Canada ... More »
3. Canada: A Very Short Introduction
Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this contemporary openness Canada also has its own history to contend with; with a ... More »
4. A History of the Canadian Peoples: Theories, Experiments, and Applications
By J.M. Bumsted
Now in its fourth edition, A History of the Canadian Peoples continues to be a skilful condensation of the two-volume history by J.M. Bumsted. In a single articulate volume, it covers the whole of Canadian history from pre-contact times to the present, integrating social, cultural, political, and economic ... More »
5. Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history. In a different approach to that old issue, ... More »
6. Re-Creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience: A Brief History of Canada since 1945
This text is an engaging survey of post-Second World War Canada, exploring ten themes key to the Canadian experience since 1945. An accessible narrative brings together recent scholarship to show how Canadians first re-created the nation following the Second World War, then experienced the fragmentation of the Canada ... More »
7. Canadian Women: A History
By Gail Cuthbert Brandt; Naomi Black; Alison Prentice; Paula Bourne; Magda Fahrni
The substantially revised and updated third edition of Canadian Women: A History continues to be the only comprehensive survey of the contributions, struggles and achievements of Canadian women. Drawing on the latest historical research, as well as government documents and other archival material, the authors provide new insights ... More »
8. Newfoundland and Labrador: A History
By Sean Cadigan
Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of Newfoundland and Labrador joining Canada, Sean T. Cadigan has written the book that will surely become the definitive history of one of North America's most distinct and beautiful regions. The site of the first European settlement by Vikings one thousand ... More »
9. Indigenous Peoples Within Canada: A Concise History
By Olive Patricia Dickason; William Newbigging
Carefully and conscientiously updated, this fourth edition is a brief but comprehensive overview of the long and vibrant history of Indigenous Peoples within what is now Canada. This engaging, chronological text offers a multifaceted account from time immemorial and pre-contact to present-day movements towards self-determination. More »
10. A Short History of Quebec
By John Alexander Dickinson; Brian J. Young
Written by two of Quebec's most respected historians, "A Short History of Quebec" offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the province from the pre-contact native period to the present-day. John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the ... More »
11. Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace
The first edition of Canada's Army quickly became the definitive history of the Canadian army. The intervening years, though, have seen major changes to how Canadians think about their military, especially in the context of the Afghan War and increased federal funding for the Canadian Forces. In the ... More »
12. In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women's History in Canada
By Mary-Ellen Kelm; Lorna Townsend
From Ellen Gabriel to Tantoo Cardinal, many of the faces of Aboriginal people in the media today are women. In the Days of Our Grandmothers is a collection of essays detailing how Aboriginal women have found their voice in Canadian society over the past three centuries. Collected in ... More »
13. An Environmental History of Canada
Throughout history most people have associated northern North America with wilderness, abundant fish and game, snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada's contemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images - deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps. Adopting both a chronological and a thematic approach, ... More »
14. A Military History of Canada
Is Canada really "a peaceable kingdom" with "an unmilitary people"? Nonsense, says Desmond Morton. This is a country that has been shaped, divided, and transformed by war -- there is no greater influence in Canadian history, recent or remote. From the shrewd tactics of Canada's First Nations ... More »
15. I Have Lived Here Since The World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
Canada's Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity. But the two vastly ... More »
16. Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered
Natives and Newcomers discredits that myth. In a spirited and critical re-examination of relations between the French and the Iroquoian-speaking inhabitants of the St Lawrence lowlands, from the incursions of Jacques Cartier through the explorations of Samuel de Champlain and the Jesuit missions into the early years of ... More »
17. Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Native-newcomer Relations in Canada
By J.R. Miller
First published in 1989, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens continues to earn wide acclaim for its comprehensive account of Native-newcomer relations throughout Canada's history. Author J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current displacement and marginalization ... More »
18. Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations
John Lutz traces Aboriginal people's involvement in the new economy, and their displacement from it, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the 1970s. Drawing on an extensive array of oral histories, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, biographies, and statistical analysis, Lutz shows that Aboriginal people flocked to the ... More »
19. The People of New France
By Allan Greer
This book surveys the social history of New France. For more than a century, until the British conquest of 1759-60, France held sway over a major portion of the North American continent. In this vast territory several unique colonial societies emerged, societies which in many respects mirrored ancien ... More »
20. Remembering 1759: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory
By Phillip Buckner; John G. Reid
This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest has been ... More »
21. Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade
French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popularly known as voyageurs. Scholars and public historians alike have cast them in the romantic role of rugged and merry heroes who paved the way for European ... More »
22. The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900
A critique of the greatest reallocation of resources in the history of the world and its impact on indigenous peoples, property rights, and the very foundations of modernity. More »
23. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870
Sexual encounters between Indian women and the fur traders of the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies are generally thought to have been casual and illicit in nature. This illuminating book reveals instead that Indian-white marriages, sanctioned "after the custom of the country," resulted in many warm and ... More »
24. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920
For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. ... More »
25. Who Controls the Hunt?: First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939
As the nineteenth century ended, the popularity of sport hunting grew and Ontario wildlife became increasingly valuable. Restrictions were imposed on hunting and trapping, completely ignoring Anishinaabeg hunting rights set out in the Robinson Treaties of 1850. Who Controls the Hunt? examines how Ontario's emerging wildlife conservation laws ... More »
26. The Idea of Liberty in Canada During the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838
In Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838, Michel Ducharme shows that Canadian intellectual and political history between the American Revolution and the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-38 can be better understood by considering it in relation to the broad framework ... More »
27. The Invasion of Canada: 1812-1813
To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed to be "a mere matter of marching," as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted. How could a nation of 8 million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet, when the campaign of 1812 ended, the only Americans left ... More »
28. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
By Alan Taylor
In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor's vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians who fought to ... More »
29. A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842
In this detailed and fascinating book, Francis Carroll tells the story of the attempts to settle the original boundary between Canada and the United States from the Atlantic coast to the middle of the continent. Established by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, it soon became clear ... More »
30. North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring escaped slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, many Loyalist families brought slaves with them when they settled in the Maritime colonies of British North America. Once ... More »
31. The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
By Afua Cooper
During the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal burned. Marie-Joseph Angelique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed forty-six buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone and angered that she had maintained her innocence, Angelique's condemners tortured her after ... More »
32. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
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 ... More »
33. Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905
Scholars often accept without question that the Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. Drawing on court files, police and penitentiary records, and newspaper accounts from the Saskatchewan region of the North-West Territories between 1870 and 1905, Shelley Gavigan argues that the notion of criminalization captures neither the complexities ... More »
34. The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
By Jean Barman
British Columbia is regularly described in superlatives both positive and negative - most spectacular scenery, strangest politics, greatest environmental sensitivity, richest Aboriginal cultures, most aggressive resource exploitation, closest ties to Asia. Jean Barman's The West beyond the West presents the history of the province in all its diversity ... More »
35. Ontario: Image, Identity, and Power
The image on the cover of this volume, the fourth in Oxford's Illustrated History of Canada series, suggests many of the most prominent themes in Ontario's history: the landscape, natural resources, commercial activity, the railways that played such a central part in Confederation, the border that represents both ... More »
36. Saskatchewan: A New History
By Bill Waiser
Bill Waiser leaves no stone unturned as he records the events and stories of the people who experienced them: from the province's earliest days when anything seemed possible through the years of the Great Depression, when the prospect of greatness seemed all but lost and to the second ... More »
37. The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation
By Cole Harris
The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European ... More »
38. Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History
This comprehensive treatment of the environmental history of northern North America offers a compelling account of the complex encounters of people, technology, culture, and ecology that shaped modern-day Canada and Alaska. From the arrival of the earliest humans to the very latest scientific controversies, the environmental history ... More »
39. Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People?
Constitutional Odyssey is an account of the politics of making and changing Canada's constitution from Confederation to the present day. Peter H. Russell frames his analysis around two contrasting constitutional philosophies - Edmund Burke's conception of the constitution as a set of laws and practices incrementally adapting to ... More »
40. A Concise History of Business in Canada
By Graham D. Taylor; Peter Baskerville
Drawing on a generation of new scholarship the authors of this book trace the history of business institutions in Canada, and the complex web of trade, investment, technology, and ideas that connect Canadian business development to the evolution of capitalism in Europe and North America over the past ... More »
41. A History of the Canadian Economy
By Kenneth Norrie; Douglas Owram; J.C. Herbert Emery
A History of the Canadian Economy provides a chronological account of Canada's economic development from the times of pre-European settlement to the present.Unlike other past competitive offerings, the book draws from both economics and history based literatures. It uses and stresses economic concepts and terminology and does so ... More »
42. The Evangelical Century: College and Creed in English Canada from the Great Revival to the Great Depression
Gauvreau explores the persistence and development of the evangelical creed as the intellectual expression of Protestant religion which largely defined English-Canadian culture in the Victorian period. This popular theology, which linked Methodist and Presbyterian church colleges to the world of popular preaching, was based on the Bible not ... More »
43. History of the Book in Canada: 1840-1918
By Fiona Black; Patricia Lockhart Fleming; Yvan Lamonde
Vast in its scope and depth of scholarship, this second volume of the History of the Book in Canada extends the landmark research on Canadian book and print culture from 1840 to the end of the First World War. During this time, the lives of Canadians were shaped ... More »
44. The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
By Liza Piper
Between 1821 and 1960, industrial economies took root in the North, transgressing political geographies and superseding the historically dominant fur trade. Imported southern scientists and sojourning labourers worked the Northwest, and its industrial history bears these newcomers' imprint. This book reveals the history of human impact upon the ... More »
45. Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900
By Bryan D. Palmer; Gregory S. Kealey
As Canada's most industrialised province, Ontario served as the regional centre of the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, an organisation which embodied a late nineteenth-century working-class vision of an alternative to the developing industrial-capitalist society. The Order opposed the exploitation of labor, and cultivated ... More »
46. J.B. McLachlan: A Biography: The Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Coal Miners
By David Frank
Agitator, educator, organizer, J.B. McLachlan led the coal miners of Nova Scotia in their struggles for union recognition, united them around ideas of industrial democracy and social reconstruction, and defended their cause in the labour wars of the 1920s. This authoritative biography tells the story of legendary labour ... More »
47. Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939
By Ruth Frager; Carmela Patrias
The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work ... More »
48. The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History
The Canadian Labour Movement tells the story of Canada's workers and their unions from the mid-nineteenth century through to today. It paints a vivid picture of key developments, such as the birth of draft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, the setbacks of the twenty-first century, ... More »
49. Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
By Reg Whitaker; Gregory S. Kealey; Andrew Parnaby
Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada - from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance and intelligence-gathering ... More »
50. Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy
By Sarah Carter
Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the Indigenous people lacked either an interest in farming or an aptitude for it. In Lost Harvests Sarah Carter reveals that reserve residents were anxious to farm and expended considerable effort on cultivation; government policies, more ... More »
51. Roads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867
By Jacqueline D. Krikorian; David R. Cameron; Marcel Martel; Andrew W. McDougall; Robert C. Vipond
In recognition of Canada's sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the "classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also scholarly ... More »
52. John A. Macdonald: Canada's First Prime Minister
By Ged Martin
A biography of Canada's first prime minister, a legendary political strategist who helped found a new nation in 1867. Shocked by Canada's 1837 rebellions, John A. Macdonald sought to build alliances and avoid future conflicts. Thanks to financial worries and an alcohol problem, he almost quit ... More »
53. Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney
Since first published in 1994, Right Honourable Men has remained the definitive source for Canadians wanting to know more about the quality of our leaders and the personalities behind the policies. Now, in this timely new edition, Bliss evaluates Jean Chrétien's record and asserts that he was actually ... More »
54. The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation
By Ernest R Forbes; Delphin A Muise
Canada's four easternmost provinces, while richly diverse in character and history, share many elements of their political and economic experience within Confederation. In this volume thirteen leading historians explore the shifting tides of Atlantic Canada's history, beginning with the union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick with Ontario ... More »
55. Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History
What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of political ... More »
56. The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation
Confronting the truths of Canada's Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada's past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Starting with a discussion ... More »
57. Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948
By Margaret Conrad; James K. Hiller
This is a survey of the changing character of what the authors call "industrial legality", focusing on the critical period 1900-1948, during which specific responses to workers' collective action were institutionalized in Canada. The authors argue that the post-1900 period marked the emergence of a new regime of ... More »
58. Rethinking Canadian Economic Growth and Development since 1900: The Quebec Case
This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population. It places the case of Quebec into the wider question of convergence in economic history and whether proactive governments delay or ... More »
59. The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy
By Ninette Kelley; Michael Trebilcock
Immigration policy is a subject of intense political and public debate. In this second edition of the widely recognized and authoritative work The Making of the Mosaic, Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock have thoroughly revised and updated their examination of the ideas, interests, institutions, and rhetoric that have ... More »
60. Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon
By Ken Coates; William Morrison
While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such as Herschel Island whaling, pre-1900 fur trading, the post-Second World War resource boom, a ... More »
61. A History of Canadian Culture
From Dorset sculpture to the Barenaked Ladies, award-winning historian Jonathan F. Vance reveals a storyteller's ear for narrative. In a country this diverse, 'culture' has different meanings. Vance tells a story from the wind-swept Arctic where a stranded Innu woman, fighting to survive, took the time to decorate ... More »
62. In Flanders Fields: 100 Years: Writing on War, Loss and Remembrance
By Amanda Betts
In early 1915, the death of a young friend on the battlefields of Ypres inspired Canadian soldier, field surgeon and poet John McCrae to write """"In Flanders Fields."""" Within months of the poem's December 1915 publication in the British magazine Punch it became part of the collective consciousness ... More »
63. Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity
Half of Toronto's population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada - and many other western nations - has to face ... More »
64. Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960
Explores the origins of the revolution in Canadian human rights, from its beginnings in the Great Depression to the developments of the 1960s. This book provides an account of the efforts to resist the abuse of civil liberties at the hands of the federal government and provincial legislatures ... More »
65. The Necessary War, Volume 1: Canadians Fighting the Second World War:1939-1943
By Tim Cook
Tim Cook, Canada's leading war historian, ventures deep into the Second World War in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, loss and longing, and sacrifice and endurance. Written in Cook's compelling narrative style, this book shows in impressive detail how soldiers, airmen, and sailors fought--the evolving ... More »
66. Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity During Canada's Second World War
Canada emerged from the Second World War as a hydro-electric superpower. Only the United States generated more hydro power than Canada and only Norway generated more per capita. Allied Power is about how this came to be: the mobilization of Canadian hydro-electricity during the war and the impact ... More »
67. The Social Origins of the Welfare State: Quebec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940-1955
The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In this translation of her award-winning Aux origines sociales de l´État-providence, Dominique Marshall examines the connections between political initiatives and Québécois families, in particular ... More »
68. Combating Poverty: Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State
By Axel van den Berg; Charles Plante; Hicham Raiq; Christine Proulx; Sam Faustmann
Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous 'liberal market' regime, social and labour market policy falls ... More »
69. Canadas Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82
In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clément provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, ... More »
70. Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada
By Christabelle Sethna; Steve Hewitt
From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, in the midst of the Cold War and second-wave feminism, the RCMP security service - prompted by fears of left-wing and communist subversion - monitored and infiltrated the women's liberation movement in Canada and Quebec. Just Watch Us investigates why and ... More »
71. Alliance and Illusion: Canada and the World, 1945-1984
Alliance and Illusion is the definitive assessment of the domestic and international aspects of Canadian foreign policy in the modern era. Robert Bothwell provides nuanced studies of Canada's leaders and discusses international currents that drove Canadian external affairs, from American influence over Vietnam and the draft dodgers, to ... More »
72. The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations
The Middle Power Project describes a defining period of Canadian and international history. During the Second World War, Canada transformed itself from British dominion to self-proclaimed middle power. It became an active, enthusiastic, and idealistic participant in the creation of one of the longest lasting global institutions of ... More »
73. In the National Interest: Canadian Foreign Policy and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909-2009
By Greg Donaghy; Michael K. Carroll
Canada's role as world power and its sense of itself in the global landscape has been largely shaped and defined over the past 100 years by the changing policies and personalities in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). This engaging and provocative book brings ... More »
74. Dancing Around the Elephant: Creating a Prosperous Canada in an Era of American Dominance, 1957-1973
A generation of Canadian historians has viewed the mid-twentieth century as an era when Canada gave ground to the United States in most areas of foreign trade policy. In Dancing around the Elephant, Bruce Muirhead elegantly and cogently disputes this view. Drawing on extensive archival research, Muirhead ... More »
75. The Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945-71
The Other Quiet Revolution traces the under-examined cultural transformation woven through key developments in the formation of Canadian nationhood, from the 1946 Citizenship Act and the 1956 Suez crisis to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70) and the adoption of the federal multiculturalism policy in 1971. ... More »
76. Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities ... More »
77. Trudeaumania
By Paul Litt
In 1968, Canadians dared to take a chance on a new kind of politician. Pierre Trudeau became the leader of the Liberal Party in April and two months later won the federal election. His meteoric rise to power was driven by Trudeaumania, an explosive mix of passion and ... More »
78. Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture
By David Newhouse; Cora J. Voyageur; Dan Beavon
The history of Aboriginal people in Canada taught in schools and depicted in the media tends to focus on Aboriginal displacement from native lands and the consequent social and cultural disruptions they have endured. Collectively, they are portrayed as passive victims of European colonization and government policy, and, ... More »
79. Canada and the Idea of North
Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined themselves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery to the comic book superheroine Nelvana, Glenn Gould's documentaries, the paintings of Lawren ... More »
80. Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada
By Tom Warner
Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada is the first comprehensive history of its kind. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with leading gay and lesbian activists across the country and a rich array of archival material, Tom Warner chronicles and analyzes the multiple - ... More »
81. Lesbian & Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995
By Miriam Smith
To the expanding literature on lesbian and gay rights in Canada, Miriam Smith contributes this fascinating analysis of trends in the movement toward equality for sexual minorities in the last quarter of a century. Using archival material that has largely been ignored, as well as interviews with Canadian ... More »
82. Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
By Patrizia Gentile; Jane Nicholas
From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars ... More »
83. After Morgentaler: The Politics of Abortion in Canada
The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada's abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive. In After Morgentaler, Rachael Johnstone examines the state of abortion access in Canada today and argues that ... More »
84. Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney
In Transforming the Nation, leading Canadian politicians and scholars reflect on the major policy debates of the period and offer new and surprising interpretations of Brian Mulroney. Mulroney had a tremendous impact on Canada, charting a new direction for the country through his decisions on a variety of ... More »
85. Letters to a Quebecois Friend
By Philip Resnick; Daniel Latouche
Resnick, a leading Canadian nationalist, argues that English-Canadian attitudes toward Quebec have changed fundamentally since the November 1988 election. Quebec has become too selfish, he says, and English Canada feels betrayed by Quebec's refusal either to recognize or take seriously the desires of the rest of the country. ... More »
86. Smart Globalization: The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience
By Dimitry Anastakis; Andrew Smith
Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and the return to more interventionist industrial policies. Both sides claim to have the facts on their side.Inspired by the work of economists ... More »
87. Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America
Based on Shelagh Grant's years of groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, "Polar Imperative" is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty over the polar regions of North America. It examines the unfolding implications of major climate ... More »
88. The Night Canada Stood Still
The night of October 30, 1995, was like no other in Canadian history. The young, modern nation that the UN Human Development Index had ranked #1 for the two previous years now faced its greatest challenge: the possibility of fracturing as Quebecers made a fateful decision-whether to separate ... More »
89. The Politics of War: Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001-14
By Jean-Christophe Boucher; Kim Richard Nossal
When Canada committed forces to the military mission in Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, little did Canadians foresee that they would be involved in a war-riven country for over a decade. The Politics of War explores how and why Canada's Afghanistan mission became so politicized. Through analysis of ... More »
90. Securitized Citizens: Canadian Muslims' Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post-9/11
By Baljit Nagra
Uninformed and reactionary responses in the years following the events of 9/11 and the ongoing 'War on Terror' have greatly affected ideas of citizenship and national belonging. In Securitized Citizens, Baljit Nagra, develops a new critical analysis of the ideas dominant groups and institutions try to impose ... More »
91. For Better or Worse: Canada and the United States in the Twenty-First Century
By Norman Hillmer; J.L. Granatstein
Canada and the United States are two huge, blessed countries that have coexisted for a very long time. They are shaped by different traditions and moulded by different forces. At the same time, there are no two publics on earth that are more similar in their pluralistic values, ... More »
92. Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies
By John Herd Thompson; Stephen J. Randall
The United States and Canada have the world's largest trading relationship and the longest shared border. Spanning the period from the American Revolution to post-9/11 debates over shared security, Canada and the United States offers a current, thoughtful assessment of relations between the two countries. Distilling a mass ... More »
93. Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada-US Relations
By Stephen Azzi
Reconcilable Differences examines the interplay between Canada and the United States from the birth of these two countries to present day. The text draws on political, economic, and social research as well as historiographical approaches to create an engaging narrative that brings historical personalities and events to life. ... More »
94. Canadian Environmental History: Essential Readings
In an era of increasing environmental awareness, Canadians are becoming more and more curious about the context of environmental action and policy. Canadian Environmental History puts into historical perspective the complex and often reciprocal relationships that develop between human societies and their environment. By studying the interplay between ... More »
95. Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity
By Stephanie Ross; Larry Savage
For decades, public sector unions in Canada have been plagued by austerity, privatization, taxpayer backlash and restrictions on union rights. In recent years, the intensity of state-led attacks against public sector workers has reached a fevered pitch, raising the question of the role of public sector unions in ... More »
96. Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History
By Alvin Finkel
Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations' control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents of the area known today as Canada have organized themselves to deal with (or ... More »
97. A History of Canadian Economic Thought
By Robin Neill
In A History of Canadian Economic Thought, Robin Neill relates the evolution of economic theory in Canada to the particular geographical and political features of the country. Whilst there were distinctively Canadian economic discourses in nineteenth-century Ontario and early twentieth-century Quebec, Neill argues that these have now been ... More »
98. Democratic Equality: What Went Wrong?
Are the world's oldest democracies failing? For most of the past fifty years democratic governments made determined and successful efforts at overcoming the significant inequalities that are the by-product of a capitalist economy. During this period a new concept of democratic citizenship that added social and economic rights ... More »
99. Conservatism in Canada
By Harold Farney; David Rayside
With the electoral success of the Harper Conservatives federally and of a number of conservative parties provincially, the topic of Canadian conservatism is more important to our understanding of Canadian party politics than ever before. This timely volume presents the first comprehensive examination of Canadian conservatism in a ... More »
100. A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada
In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. ... More »
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