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An accessible introduction to disability studies, Disability Politics and Theory provides a concise survey of disability history, exploring the concept of disability as it has been conceived from t

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The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape.

In 1946, a Black Halifax businesswoman, Viola Desmond, was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a white's-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

Established in 1896, the Stuartburn colony was one of the earliest Ukrainian settlements in western Canada.

Much has been written about the history and the people of northern Manitoba, but until now this body of work has not been readily accessible to the researcher or teacher.

Social movements across North America have suffered from the rise of neoliberalism.

A directory of Manitoba newspapers from 1859—1978.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America.

A series of essays which explore the intermingling of European and native American peoples bringing about ethnogenesis - how new peoples, new ethnicities and new nationalities come into being.

One of the most turbulent periods in the history of prairie agriculture is chronicled in this book about the life and times of Alexander “Mac” Runciman, the Saskatchewan farmer who led the United G

Vilhjalmur Stefansson has long been known for his groundbreaking work as an anthropologist and expert on Arctic peoples.

Founded in 1877, just seven years after the birth of the province itself, the University of Manitoba has been inextricably bound with the history and life of Manitoba and western Canada.

Jim Mochoruk shows how government and business worked together to transform northern Manitoba from the exclusive fur-trading reserve of the Hudson's Bay Company into an industrial hinterland.

Winona LaDuke's Chronicles is a collection of stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo Nation.