Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism...
Boundaries
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Author:Walia, HarshaSummary: - Author:Linklater, AndroSummary:
Ranging from the late-eighteenth century to the present, a narrative history reveals how the boundaries and borders that formed both states and the nation as a whole created a sense of identity that is central to defining American...
- Author:Faires, Nora, Smith, David R., Widdis, Randy W., Bukowczyk, John J.Summary:
From the colonial era of waterborne transport, through nineteenth-century changes in transportation and communication, to globalization, the history of the Great Lakes Basin has been shaped by the people, goods, and capital crossing and...
- Author:Hauka, Donald J.Summary:
Could a horde of American miners have delivered British Columbia into the hands of the United States in 1859? In "McGowan's War," Donald J. Hauka argues that the new colony was a rifle shot away from war and annexation during the...
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Author:Poitras, JacquesSummary:Shortlisted Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. Once, a single francophone settlement shared both sides of the Saint John River, until a political trade-off between...
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Author:Soderstrom, MarySummary:How can neighbours that are geographically side by side be worlds apart politically, culturally, ideologically, and economically? In Frenemy Nations, Mary Soderstrom presents a unique perspective on the strife caused by the "narcissism...
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Author:Townsdin, LindaSummary:Britt Johansson, a tough photojournalist with a big heart and bad social skills follows a coed's murder to the wilds of the U.S./Canadian border and lands in the crosshairs of an international crime ring... Only this time she's in way...
- Author:Parks, JenniferSummary:
Until now, Canada's claim to the frozen expanses of the Arctic has gone largely unchallenged. No longer. Suddenly our great white North is on everyone's radar, and five other countries are all interested in redefining our international...
- Author:New, W.H.Summary:
Borderlands traces some of the ways in which border metaphors pervade Canadian consciousness. Addressing a variety of social issues - among them, separatism, marginalization, multiculturalism, colonial attitudes, national policies,...
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Author:Brunet-Jailly, EmmanuelSummary:Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC....
- Author:Hoy, BenjaminSummary:
Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their...
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Author:Coates, Ken S., Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, Morrion, William R., Poelzer, GregSummary:A hard-hitting, timely, and provocative book about the history and future of the Canadian Arctic. With passion and sharp words, Arctic Front confronts Canada's longstanding neglect of the Far North and outline what needs to be done to...
