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Textiles in Manuscripts

Die Verwendung von Textilien in Büchern und Manuskripten war von der Spätantike bis in die frühe Neuzeit weit verbreitet. Sie dienten als Verstärkung der Bindung oder als Einband, wurden benutzt, um eine …

Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop 1978 - 1984

Local TV

Local TVoffers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, policies, and debates in local television histories from the United States. Television is typically perceived as a commercial and/or na…

Matthieu Caron

Montreal After Dark

Montreal After Dark elucidates how nighttime regulation became a central issue in Montreal during the second half of the twentieth century. Labour, dissent, sex, noise, and art, as well as sites of leisur…

Richard H Tomczak

Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783

Richard Tomczak puts French-Canadian workers front and centre in this historical account of the feudal labour arrangements that propped up the Canadian colonial state in a pivotal era.

Quebec's Eastern Townships and the World

Quebec's Eastern Townships and the World reveals a region with its own gravity, sense of being, and worldly connections, marked not by its insularity but by its long history as a central meeting ground. C…

Shaun Scott

Heartbreak City

How the city's marginalized communities have historically used sports as a tool for resilience and resistance To cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United …

Paul N Spellman

Spindletop Boom Days

Spindletop. The word conjures images of Texas oil: roustabouts, roughnecks, oil barons, and endless rows of wooden derricks. The discovery of oil at Spindletop in 1901 revolutionized the oil and drilling …

Daniel Macfarlane

The Lives of Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. *The Lives of Lake Ontario…

Noëlle Phillips

Brewmasters and Brewery Creek

"A thorough investigation into the history of craft beer" --Kendall Hunter, author of Beer Hiking Canadian RockiesThis rigorously researched deep dive into the history of craft beer in Vancouver…

Laura Madokoro

Sanctuary in Pieces

Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protect…

Frédéric Mercure Jolette

Réinventer Montréal

Réinventer Montréal retrace les idées et les actions de trois urbanistes ayant œuvré à repenser le développement de Montréal dans les années 1960, soit Hans Blumenfeld, Jean-Claude La Haye et Claude Robil…

Michael R Westcott

With a Unity of Purpose

With a Unity of Purpose examines the transformation of Newfoundland during the First World War from a society underpinned by classical liberalism to one dominated by social liberalism, in which citizens a…

Daniel Macfarlane

The Lives of Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowded its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to en…

Micah True

The Jesuit Relations

The Jesuit "Relations" *explores the intricate relationships between the published *Relations and the many other texts written in New France, revealing a rich picture of a historical source that…

Cheryl M Hargrove

Authentic America

Explore what makes America distinct through this in-depth guide to 250 places integral to the country's cultural and historical essence.

Sherry L Smith

Bohemians West

Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of an early twentieth century radical romance between Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field who sought economic justice, gender equality, and individual f…

Ian Frazier

Paradise Bronx

"Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most various and alive borough"--

Steven Conn

The Lies of the Land

A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic declin…