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Makhno and Memory

Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917–1921

Sean Patterson (Author)

Nestor Makhno has been called a revolutionary anarchist, a peasant rebel, the Ukrainian Robin Hood, a mass-murderer, a pogromist, and a devil. Through a meticulous analysis of the Makhnovist-Mennonite conflict, Sean Patterson attempts to make sense of the competing cultural memories and presents new ways of thinking about Makhno and his movement.

Two Years Below the Horn

Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946

Andrew Taylor (Author), Daniel Heidt (Editor), Whitney Lackenbauer (Editor)

The fascinating account of the groundbreaking Antarctic expedition Operation Tabarin which marked a critical moment in polar exploration.

Propaganda and Persuasion

The Cold War and the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society

Jennifer Anderson (Author)

During the early Cold War, thousands of Canadians attended events organized by the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society (CSFS) and subscribed to its publications. Using previously unavailable archival sources and oral histories, Propaganda and Persuasion looks at the CSFS as a blend of social and political activism.

Eddy Weetaltuk (Author), Thibault Martin (Editor), Isabelle St. Amand (Introduction)

The world through the eyes of an Inuit soldier.

Sounding Thunder

The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow

Brian D. McInnes (Author), Waubgeshig Rice (Foreword)

Stories from Canada’s most decorated Indigenous soldier.

The Patriotic Consensus

Unity, Morale, and the Second World War in Winnipeg

Jody Perrun (Author)

For King and Kanata

Canadian Indians and the First World War

Timothy C. Winegard (Author)

In his groundbreaking book, For King and Kanata, Timothy C. Winegard reveals how national and international forces directly influenced the more than 4,000 status Indians who voluntarily served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force between 1914 and 1919.

Winnipeg's Great War

A City Comes of Age

Jim Blanchard (Author)

Winnipeg’s Great War picks up in 1914, just as the city is regrouping after a brief economic downturn. Using letters, diaries, and newspaper reports, Jim Blanchard brings us into the homes and public offices of Winnipeg and its citizens to illustrate the profound effect the war had on every aspect of the city.

For All We Have and Are

Regina and the Experience of the Great War

James M. Pitsula (Author)

Skillfully combining vivid detail with the larger social context, For All We Have and Are provides a nuanced picture of how one Canadian community rebuilt both its realities and myths in response to the cataclysm of the “war to end all wars.”

The Plains Cree

Trade, Diplomacy, and War, 1790 to 1870

John S. Milloy (Author)

The first economic, military, and diplomatic history of the Plains Cree from contact with the Europeans in the 1670s to the disappearance of the buffalo from Cree lands by the 1870s, focussing on military and trade relations between 1790 and 1870.